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? ;)
April 11, 2014 IN A WORLD...
WHERE BEAUTIFUL PEGASUS UNICORN CAKES...
;)
(By Heather Sherman of Art2Eat Cakes)
RULE THE WORLD...
OF PINTEREST.
ONE BAKER...
WILL DEFY THEM ALL.
;)
Customer: "Please tell me you're joking."
THIS SUMMER...
GET READY...
FOR...
;)
CURLY RIBBON FEATHER SHARD HORROR HOOVES...
;)
;)
;)
OF DOOOOOM.
Rated W for WTF, coming to bakeries near you.
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Reader Comments (136)
I see a pale, evil resemblance to Pete's Dragon in the face. But the hooves, the hooves - so wrong for so many reasons. Just really, really wrong.
The way the baker did the wings suggests the proper way to dispose of this item: WITH FIRE.
OMG... My eyes... what the hey... as a amateur artist I would be embarrassed to present this to a client...as a fan of Unicorns & Pegasus alike... I am horrified at the scary nasty job this thing is...nightmares coming for sure :(
How did the second "baker" not realize that the original is of a mother and baby? Even I could see that from just that one photo. HOW DID A PROFESSIONAL (SO-CALLED) MISS THAT DETAIL?
I think I'm going to have rainbow-hooved nightmares....
It's a tauntaun!
Unicorn + Pegasas = Alicorn.
What . . . Is . . . . It?!?!?!?!
This will give me nightmares for weeks. Somewhere Rainbow Brite is crying
It'll be my new nightmare. With the demon monkey cake riding it.... :O
Mel! That was awesome!!!
If only the baker were half the baker you are a writer/poet!
is this what happens when the My Little Ponies get drunk?
Exploding innards of feather shards...
Ha, ha. Wow.
**go to my happy place...go to my happy place**
Yeah, not workin' for me.
Although @mel and @TCT have added some comforting background music to this waking night mare (HA!) that we all seem to be stuck in.
Whomever has the portable unsee machine needs to pass it this way, STAT!
CRAAAAAAAAAAIG!?!?!?!
I think Theardare ate KarateLady :-(
That thing can only live in the Forbidden Forest. *vigorous head nod* Yep, never going in there without a wand.
Why??? Why does it look like it crashed and now is on fire with rainbow flames?!? Somebody please end it's pain (and ours)!!
I can't stop laughing. Who in the world thought that was what was ordered?? ROF!
Lmao that's hideous !!!
First thought: Holy crap!
Second thought: That's a whole lot of plastic.
Third thought: That's the face of The Grinch.
(Notice I never even thought about the curly ribbon mane and tail.)
I haven't seen anyone else comment on the massive width of that thing's HEAD. A unicorn (or so I'd THOUGHT) is supposed to be lovely, feathery, ethereal, and "fairy tale"-ish. Not just plain "ISH". That thing looks as though it would be more comfortable hanging out with the gargoyles at the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris. IF they'd have him/her/it. Otherwise, the kindest thing to do would be to put it out of our misery... =^e.e^=
It's funny to me to see the wreck, and you can see their thought process.
"OK, the hair and tail look kinda like curly ribbon."
"Got it."
"The wings are uh, colorful and pointy and they get bigger toward the bottom of the wing, but they're like pointing upwards..."
"Got it!"
"The hooves are rainbow colored too, and a couple of them point towards each other."
"All the hooves face each other. Got it..... nailed it!!"
So much wrong in one pic. I am by no means a professional cake sculptor, but I've done my share and they have turned out quite nice. I can't imagine handing this cake to a customer....AND expect payment for it. Seriously? Looks like things started out well with the face and body and then crashed and burned with the legs and wings.
I have no problem with ribbons for the mane and tail, but at least go with rainbow colors. And the wings are just horrifying. If you CAN'T craft edible materials to make those wings, then by all means, cut them out of foam or construction paper for Pete's sake! TRY to make it look like the example you're given. Sheesh.
This is a perfect example of a baker having to know their limits. Not sure why the wreckerator even said "sure I can do that" to begin with.
As a professional baker, when someone shows me a cake they would like, I'm up front in honest, if I don't think I can pull it off quite to the skill level that the original baker did.
I know not everyone is super nice and honest like me, but I feel like they didn't even try. Or know how to sculpt a cake. Or use rice crispie treats. Or fondant. Or dye. Or...
Thank you for posting the original cake. Otherwise I would have thought this was a space alien baby exiting the body of somebody. (Like Ms. Weaver in "Alien"). I really had no idea what it was!
Mel - that was great!
Whoa, time to call in Sam & Dean Winchester......
Did it get hit by a car? Poor unicorn... Poor, poor evil unicorn.
It's Gollum
I actually had that unicorn as a figurine when I was a kid!
Maybe we should be glad they forgot the horn ... they probably would've put an impaled bunny on it. Crushing kids dreams since...How do these people have jobs?
I can't say I find the second much worse than the first. There is nothing about "rainbow unicorn Pegasus" that doesn't revolt me.
Is good taste dead?
Are they making this into a movie? Call me disgusting, creepy, wrong or whatever , but if this is a movie,THEN I WANNA SEE IT!!!!!!!!
Wicked Stacy, so right.
If you take a picture from your favorite cake deco magazine to the grocery store's bakery and plan to spend ten bucks, you get what you deserve, and vice versa.
Just as when you take a picture of a supermodel to the hairdresser's...
NAILED IT!!!!!!!!
I scream. I cry. I run. I run away in terror from the horror.
Are you sure there aren't 2 horns because surely this is satan's spawn !
I accidentally clicked "full image". Bit traumatised now...
THAT is a Hippopotamus, NOT a Unicorn. Seriously, the face is a hippo face, the hooves are as well. What a bizarre thing to do to a Unicorn. Then again, the whole thing is warped beyond recognition.
afraid to look....afraid to look....afraid to look.... aHHHHHHHHH I looked!!!!!!! Noooooooooooo!
Kill it, quick!
I don't get it.
I get the misspelled cakes. Everybody makes mistakes sometimes. I'm a fantastic speller, but there's a few words that I have to look up every time because I know I'm going to spell it wrong. I even get cakes that someone misunderstood what they were supposed to write on the cake, because *some* people have weird senses of humor & in-jokes that nobody else would understand, so *maybe* it's supposed to say something that makes no sense.
But I don't understand how someone can look at that first picture & even think they've come acceptably close with the cake they created. If I was the baker, I'd be embarrassed for anyone to even see that, knowing what the cake was supposed to look like.
Hey Now Cake Wreck Fans! The Original Pegacorn Mama and Baby Cake is my work ( www.art2eatcakes.com ). It was made as a specific request from my 7yr old on her birthday, and yes, we cut it. It was delicious. I don't know whose imitation this is, but if you want this cake, call ME, out of Boulder Colorado, thu my website above, or my FB Page. I don't ship, but let's talk. Or, you can always look for someone cheaper.....muah-haha......
I found the horn!
It looks as though someone wrapped more ribbon around a cone and jammed it in that poor creatures head!!!
When in doubt use more ribbon!!!!
I haven't laughed this hard in years, I fell out of my chair at my desk! Love it!
oh. my.
its the Evil Unicorn of Doom!
run for your lives
Nailed it!
Oh, and just FYI a Unicorn/Pegasus animal is called an "Alicorn"...don't ask, I have a little girl and know lots of useless little girl related information.
Oh dear.
I made the Unicorn Tapestry cake you posted a couple years ago on Sunday Sweets, and I would know better than to attempt to recreate that cake. A pity this decorator didn't.
@Bri: Thank you for your kind comment! I do have a lot of fun here.....
@Jodee: well, thanks... By the way, will you posting cake reproductions of your vacation highlights? After all, a cake is worth 1000 photos...or something.... Also, where is KarateLady?!
@Sammi: Thank you; I'm glad you enjoyed it!
I don't believe this was someone's REAL cake... This had to be a April fools joke.. Come on people no one in their right mind would give that to a customer.. This is a hoax!! (Please say its a hoax!!)