SPAAACE!!!
September 16, 2015 It happens to the best of us: Sometimes, you just run out of room.
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The test of a true wreckerator, however, is how creatively you manage to soldier on in the face of seemingly insurmountable icing borders.
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Ok, so maybe they're not all that insurmountable.
In fact, here are a few more tried and true tactics employed by wreckerators everywhere:
The Nose Dive:
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(Cartoon bomb noises optional.)
The Double Stack:
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Now with extra ellipses!
The "Round Abound:"
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The color choice is what really sells it.
The Second Time's the Charm:
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Also known as the "Maybe No One Will Notice."
The Cliff-Hanger:
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"Y! Hold on, Y! I can't...you're...you're slipping! Y!! NOOOoooOOOOooOOO!!"
Ahem.
And finally, my personal favorite:
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The "Stop, Walk (Away), and LOL."
Thanks to Leigh M., Brenda S., Holly H., Ariel F., Victoria M., Mike S., Jenny B., and Lauren L. for really exploring the studio space. Before we're done here, you'll all be wearing gold-plated diapers.
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Reader Comments (33)
When a cake wrecker runs out of room
You just know that it's safe to assume
They'll make some huge mistake
Piping runs off the cake
Or else they'll just
What is even funnier on #2 is that the wreckenator didn't even aim for the white part of the icing so that the pink writing would possibly have been legible. Nope; pink on pink, that'll work.
"Now with extra ellipses!" LOVE IT
Wow -- not only was the writing bad (which you described so very well), but those wrecks were just badly decorated. What's with the -- um --- sperm? Pink poo? And the lid must have fallen off the red sprinkles bottle. Sure! Just pile it all in the middle! Someone will surely want to bite into THAT! And that neon pink icing -- yikes!
All but the last one look as though they were not written on by the same hands that did the other decorating. I'm thinking either someone purchased a blank cake and grabbed a tube of piping gel/frosting and did it at home (please oh please oh please), or the cakes were already decorated sans writing, and just grabbed whatever random employee to put it on there wherever. Yeah, let's go with that.
I like Mike's cake. It's enthusiastic.
@SuBee, I love the end of your poe
I have to say that a professional had to have done the last one (Kindergar). I have a hunch that Mike and Michelle's cakes were written on by professionals, too (sigh!). I must confess that I find writing on cakes challenging even though I've had training (but then I practice on parchment paper before I try it on the cake...heaven's sake!).
OMG! I just have to say this: the "Round Abound" (thanks for the link - hilarious and I've forwarded it to many friends) looks as if someone may have let go with a herker of a sneeze (ewwww) or quite possibly explosive diarrhea (worse EWWWW). In any event - cake or not - I would pass on that one! I was giggling throughout this entire wreckage - LAUGHED OUT LOUD at the "round abound" link. Too funny. Made my day fur shere! Thanks Jen! meo
These are cracking me up! My Mom always taught us to use a toothpick to line out any wording on a cake. And it was as simple as connecting the dots.
What new kindergartner can read kindergarten anyway?
Ironically, the balloons aren't really all that bad--possibly best I've seen (on here at least).
#5 appears to say:
24th
Hoppy Biff
Maui Poop
To which I can only respond, "Yes, yes indeed. I hope you get that looked at."
But let's at least celebrate the fact, that with the exception of the nose-dive cake, they appear to have been spelled correctly.
It's today's "the glass is half FULL" message.
The Y one reminds me of the silly cartoon Cliff Hanger!
With that "Round Abound" cake, now we know where Monday's poop cakes came from.
The Y one is even more funny when you realize it's a 2-for-1. Birthday is spelled wrong. Love your site!
The only way the 2nd one could possibly be more of a train wreck is with misspelled words. Holy Hannah! That is one UGLY cake. I'm a little weirded out by the chocolate strawberry tornadoes on #4. Makes me want to grab the Twinkies and head to the basement. And, as always, you are so right: that bright pink ABSOLUTELY brings the beauty to the fluffy white one!
Happy Brithday, Cliff-Hanger. . . now if someone could just explain what a BRITH-day is...even a second-grader with basic phonics skills could fix that one....(just a few extra ellipses for you)
Did anyone notice that on the "Cliff-Hanger" Birthday was spelled wrong? BRITHDAY...
Happy Brithday tho? Like, just start over at that point.
Spaced: to boldly go where no man should go.
@ SuBee - Good one!
The reason I could never be a baker...my writing sucks.
Has no one noticed that #7 actually says Brithday?? Lmao these cracked me up!
Maybe the 'y' on the Cliff-Hanger cake left because it didn't want to be associated with a 'brithda'?
First, let me say that I love this blog. Jen, youaresogreat. That round white cake is all too familiar. The customer never fails to pick the cake with the most decorations on top (chopped up snickers with chocolate and caramel drizzle anyone?) for you to write "Happy 40th Birthday Jane, Mom, and Grandma!" on. "Just fit it along the outer edge" where there is no room, or "just write over the toppings" that are oh-so-easy to write smoothly on. ;)
I'm always amazed how difficult it seems for some people to switch tips on their bags. That last cookie cake would have been lovely if the cake decorator had just switched out her #8 for a #4 or something. Everyone else looks like they were destined for disaster at some point regardless.
Customer: "I need a cake. Oh darn, the bakery is closed. Wait, I see someone in the Deli."
Deli associate, "Sure, I can write on it for you. It will look like a 2 year old wrote it, but I can do it."
Customer: "That's ok. Go ahead. I'd like it to say 'Congratulations on 7 Years'. Will it fit?"
Deli: "I'll try."
And that's how it happens!
People don't realize how hard it is to write on cakes until they try it themselves!!
I can't help but think that some punctuation would have saved # 6 - along with a slow clap. "Congratulations, Mike. Congratulations."
Brithday: the day one becomes British??
Yes, I realized that it was "brithday" after I posted my comment commending the spelling. So let me amend that comment....at least everyone managed to spell "congratulations" correctly. That alone is a feat we rarely see at Cake Wrecks.
Well now what a welcome return from vacation lol. These are hysterical.
Probably shouldn't even mention it but The Nose Dive and The Cliff Hanger also have a little problem with spelling also. These are really, really sad.