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What's a Wreck?
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.
Now, don't you have a photo you want to send me? ;)
- Jen
December 10, 2013;)
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Reader Comments (50)
I can't decide if it looks more like worms on the cakes or spaghetti. Neither one is very appetizing.
The Albino: [raspy voice] The Cakes of Despair! Don’t even think… [clears throat] … don’t even think about trying to re-bake!"
"Raspbry." You have to say it in a Maggie Smith / Dowager Countess accent.
C'mon, try it: Raspbry. Raspbry. Raspbry.
See? It really works.
Now dig in. It seems a pity to miss such a good pudding.
Why, them thar Victory-an lacy worm squiggles is thuh elegantust thaing ah ever dun seed.
Love a day that begins with The Princess Bride! :) (And for the record, I think Inigio is correct!)
Somewhere in England a group of Victorian tatters are sobbing into lace hankies.
I broke out in giggles with the Princess Bride reference. and I agree with miss_paper - Inigio is totally spot on! not much elegant or lacey or whatever on these cakes.
Thanks for a morning smile.
Do they even know what lace is???
We are gathered here
to demonstrate our skill set:
extrusions galore.
Shoelace, perhaps.
I suddenly have this overwhelming desire for lace and meatballs in a nice tomato/basil sauce...and cake.....
Nice job, bakers! That's using your noodle....
Inconceivable!
I never thought of making a ramen themed cake before, but the first cake really has me thinking about my upcoming 30th birthday party!
Squeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!! A Galaxy Quest title!! I love you even more now, haha!
So Victorian Lace looks like an advanced case of Heartworms.
Wow. Who knew?
@Sharyn and Haiku Joy --- LOL!
LOVE the Princess Bride tie-in!
I think the decorator turned on the lace-pumping machine, and then left for their 15 minute break.
Hey...has anyone seen my Silly String....oh...never mind.....
@kayk - shoelace had me cackling out loud!! Good thing my door was closed!! O.O
Some of those *lacy* designs looked really familiar to me. Then I remembered that when I was a kid, I had a Play-Doh Fun Factory. =^e.e^=
Silly String-like icing doesn't equal lace or lacey. This http://qweddings.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/white-lacy-icing-cookies.jpg or this http://mbwep.goodsitedev.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/lace-wedding-cake-just-cake.jpg is lacey icing.
I'm so glad we went with lace rather than tapeworms.
You give me spaghetti, Take from me my lace. . .
Nothing like a couple of Princess Bride references to brighten up one's day... thanks, John! :)
Can you hear the sound of ultimate suffering in cyberspace?
These cakes look like someone applied Cheez-Whiz during an earthquake.
Wendy - You win the Internet today.
Hmmm... {consults Cake Wrecks Thesaurus} whaddya know!
Lace = Silly String.
Sooo.... is this where the top ramen nobody can use goes?
I think that they looked at the pictures of their spaghetti and meatballs cake and somehow the word "lace" came to mind. This is the product of that inspiration. $10 and coupon to Arbys to the first person who gets ahold of their book of pics and burns it.
So, I'm noodling around the interwebz, saddened by the death of that great states-manicotti, Mandala, looking for something to cheer me up. I finally get to Cake Wrecks, where I can't help but sagne, "What the fettuce?" Is that spaghetti, or vermincelli? It really just looks like a bigoli pile of crapellini. Probably some ziti-faced kid decorated those cakes. Those bakers must feel fusilli putting those out for sale. I mean, its farfalle-fetched to think that those look anything like lace. Especially since they cost such a pretty penne! I think I'll passatelli on the cakes, thank you very much. I spatzle at my screen. Then, I put on my bowtie, and with Barbina at my elbow, we left for our tripoline to Guilder, in search of some decent cannelloni.
All hail the Flying Spaghetti Monster. May his noodley appendages touch and bless you.
I too had the Play Doh Fun Factory. I also had the Mop Top Hair Shop and what is on these cakes looks like what my mom swept up from the floor when I was finished.
The first cake I remember is a wilton technique - called Sotas - they teach it! LOL http://www.wilton.com/technique/Sotas
LOL
PRINCE BRIDE QUOTE!!!!!! You can never go wrong with that!
@jackwire: That was freaking AWESOME! Loved it!! The only thing I'd add is this: After eating all of that, I'd have to say, "Leave the gum; take the cannoli." =^~.-^=
Wow I really needed a laugh today and everyone delivered. My favs are @Zippy (Victorian Tatters killed me) and Wendy (love Stevie Nicks). Thanks all!
Um ... no. Just no.
Though if you add raspberry jam and Ferro Roche to the top cake, you get fake spaghetti! (I did that with cupcakes once.)
@jackwire: well done, well, done.....I couldn't get pasta line or two without laughing....
Reminds me of my 1st apt. and 1st ever dinner party. 8 people for a pasta dinner. Humm how much pasta?. 1 box per couple sounded about right so 4 boxes into the pot...came out looking like cake #1..I ate pasta for a month.
Makes me wonder what wreckerators think lace is? Lol on second thought I probably don't want to even know what crosses in their minds for lace, snowflakes, or anything else hehe.
It was bring your family to work day. The kids got to decorate with silly string and the husband got to decorate with his trusty caulk gun.
Their way's not very sportsman-like [with those cakes]!
Well placed Princess Bride reference, but I can't help but laugh at the aspiring wreckers in the peanut gallery who've misspelled "Iñigo".
Okay, so most people aren't nerdy enough to include the tilde, but you get the joke.
lace? more like spaghetti. or the stuff you make with play-doh when you squeeze it out through the "spaghetti" feature of that thing (i'm sure it has a name) that you push the play-doh through for different tube shapes.
Love the Princess Bride reference!
Watched it with my daughter recently, I'm ever so quietly trying to turn it into her favourite movie. Harry Potter is in the way, though.
"Are you referring to the worm or the spaghetti?"
'Cause I'm not sure which that is. The one thing it most definitely is not is lace.
#1 looks like they dumped a bag of shredded mozzarella on it. lol
How bizarre, I used that exact quote this morning when the word "inconceivable" came up in a sentence. One can never have enough Princess Bride in one day.
@Lady Crim: Fake spaghetti = "impasta"
(Not my original joke; there used to be a newspaper cartoon called "Graffiti".)