A Cake Wreck is any cake that is unintentionally sad, silly, creepy, inappropriate - you name it. A Wreck is not necessarily a poorly-made cake; it's simply one I find funny, for any of a number of reasons. Anyone who has ever smeared frosting on a baked good has made a Wreck at one time or another, so I'm not here to vilify decorators: Cake Wrecks is just about finding the funny in unexpected, sugar-filled places.
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November 4, 2013 Today Judy L. shares with us "The Inspiration"...
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... and "The Devastation":
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Or, as I like to call it, "The Reason I Can't Stop Laughing."
(But only because "The Leaning Tower of Pisa Crap" is just a little too mean. :D)
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Reader Comments (133)
I will never understand Why, people take orders for cakes that are way over their abilities. Oh MY!!!!!
Dear Bakers: The wedding cake is not supposed to be taller than the bride. The happy couple should be able to cut said cake without the aid of a ladder. Or a cherry picker. I mean, it's so tall we can't even see the top of that thing! How does it stay up?
tl;dr: Don't. Just don't.
The finished product looks like something from H P Lovecraft's R'Lyeh
I'm totally with you guys on the Sorting Hat! Better be.....Griffindor!!!
Pretty sure they kind of matched the inspiration cake, then nodded to themselves, put a traffic cone on top, and went with it.
@Haiku Joy - And an excellent haiku, as always. Wonder how many people here (hear?! :-) know what ear candling is... <grin> And sorry my treatise on replication, transcription, & translation is taking so long... :-/
wow.... someone said it was close if you removed the top two colors.... ok only in an upside down backwards world would that be close to the inspiration cake ..... W O W.......
I actually like the shape of the second better, it's the colors that throw it off. IMHO
@TLC: Sometimes I wonder the same thing, and I don’t want to know, either, but thanks….
@Haiku Joy: lol…you are extremely talented, clever, and now, even funnier….
Mister Potato
Representing Haiku Joy
The world will end soon
(And on a more personal note, as we enter the holiday season, I know how difficult this will be for your friends, and for you as their friend, and I will keep you all in my thoughts and prayers and wish that you all are encircled by peace and love.)
@sendingtheclowns: oppsie accepted…..
@SuBee: you got it; thanks for your order! (and for being so funny….)
@Jodee: don’t stifle…let it out! You may be thinking of pitchman Billy Mays. The wedding vows – well, are you close to needing them….? Just need some info when you’re about ready for them and they’ll be ready to go!
@Karate Lady: In some cities the pairing knives were banned, so we had to give out the juice extractors, though they were far more dangerous – people kept squirting juice in their eyes. So...be careful, especially since you have two...and, ironically enough...two eyes…. Pan cookies…sound delicious! (particularly since it’s almost mid-night and I could use a snack…)
Oh wow. I wonder if the wreckerators just hate weddings or cake in general with this one lol. Man I feel bad for the poor bride and groom that had to see this caketastrophe at their wedding. Wow.. just wow.
Yeah, it would have been loads better if she'd left it with the purple in the center. Instead, you've got a cake that looks like a tower that belongs in "The Dark Crystal"
Overflowing with tiers!
@mel: That was brilliant.
@Sharyn: thank you so much! I do have fun here, and am always grateful for the opportunity to run amok. However, when all is said and done, you know that every time I see one of your posts, I smile, I chuckle, and laugh, and say, with all sincerity, SPP. Hope you and yours are well!
I don't even like the inspiration cake! Yuck, what was she thinking??
Sigh...it doesn't matter your opinion of the inspiration cake; what matters is that the bride chose it, the baker said they could replicate it, and the result was so far away from the inspiration that I sincerely hope they (the now "wreckerator") are no longer in business.
@mel - I will also take two, being that I am 6' tall (paying no mind to what the doctors have said recently), the Collapse-A-Cake would be a very useful tool. One does not want to look like an Amazon (unless it's of the Goddess variety) next to one's cake.
@Haiku Joy - maybe the wreck came from Shrek?
Thank you, mel! What a thoughtful and wonderful thing that you remembered. I appreciate it deeply. I'm scheduled to run in the St. Jude fundraising 5K in a month in memory of their baby. I could run about 50 seconds without stopping in May, and as of Sunday I ran 35 minutes straight. I don't know why exactly that's important, but somehow it is to me.
Good grief! It looks like someone re-rolled the toilet paper.
@lisadh: thank you for your order -- they'll be on their way soon....and until they arrive, stand tall and let your inner Amazon Goddess out! :-)
lisadh - ewwww!
One certainly gets a lot more cake that way; just harder to cut a slice - plus, yes, I'd nick off the top bit, it's gone black
The inspiration cake is a little weird also...
Nailed it!
So I thought 'sorting hat' as well. But I honestly don't think it's that bad. At least it looks creative enough that it gets a pass in my book.
OH OH..I figured it out! Evil forces are diving down from a huge time space rift in the sky and consuming the CAKE. The cake is now a LIE!
HOW do you CUT either Cake.....?
Maybe with a Baseball Bat....
But instead of 'swinging it 'from side to side'
You whomp on the Cake(s) real fast [from top to bottom, of course!]
and let everyone just RUN .....with their Mouths Wide OPEN!
Those in FEAR would be running away from "IT"--
Mouths gaping OPEN in a Hurried, Harried Gasp;
with their Hands flying up, in a very Distressful Pose....
And those who were FAMISHED would be running towards "IT" --
with Mouths gaping OPEN in a Hungry, Hoggish Gasp;
with their Hands flying up, trying to catch the tasteless, ill-colored Crumbs & Creme...
Either way, with EVERYONE running AMOK -- and Running TO & FRO...
Everyone is bound to be Knocked Over & Knocked Out [eventually]
and ALL will have forgotten about the CAKE MESS upon awakening [ if lucky]
Well....It COULD happen that way ..Noooo?.....
Maybe?....
The way I see it ...IT did...or might have, anyway....
Would give a whole NEW Meaning to the word: "WEDDING CRASHER", huh?
LOL
That's what they get for requesting a giant soft server cone in the first place.
OH...That reminds me of those awful upcycled fairy sweater coats on Etsy. Both are so sad :(
Ahahahahaha lol I was watching the first harry potter when I scrolled down... minus the top two layers it would be fine... where dis the brown and blue come from??! ;)
Why did my first thought go back to the pull-out sticky fly paper my grandmother used to hang on the porch in the summer?
The second one isn't so bad if they were going for the post-apocalyptic Seuss look ;-)
To be honest, I find the inspiration cake pretty ugly.
I think the wicked witch of the west wants her hat back.......