Monday
Feb222016
Less-Than-Superb Owl Wreckage
February 22, 2016 My Superb Owl Sweets for Super Bowl Sunday must have been super inspirational, because look what Ashley ordered for her daughter's birthday!
;)
D'awww.
Ashley ordered it from a different baker, though, which meant there were bound to be just a few slight differences.
[poker face]
[eye twitch]
[biting lip]
Er...
Quick, look at the cake. Look at the cake!
;)
AHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAAAAAAAA!!
Whooo WEEE! Almost didn't make it, there.
Thanks to Ashley G. for reminding us that wreckage can be a real hoot.
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Reader Comments (42)
Is that...manbearpig?
Oh, I just had to go see if I could find CorrieCakes on Cake Central (Corrie76). She has SO many beautiful sheet cakes. I love the idea of a pretty cake that I actually know how to slice without a diagram or a cakey massacre!
I have no words.
The writing on Lanie's bat cake is upside-down. So is the photo.
So, it was a "birthday?" Was it Lanie's zeroth birthday, or did that message not fare any better than the owl?
Dear Wreckerator: owl =/= bat. Learn the difference. Please, for the love of God, learn the difference!
Owls, bats, same thing, right?
I really, really, REALLY hope she did not pay for that wreck....
If the bat on her cake is any indication, baby Laynie must belong to a family of vampires.
Wow. That is awful. My condolences, Ashley. Please know that is wasn't in any way your fault. That cake was dead before it was boxed. (Love the name Laynie. Or was it supposed to Lalani or Laramie and the baker did...well, you know what the baker is capable of)
I was coming to comment about the resemblance to a bat as well. Then, I read @AngelaS.'s comment and laughed out loud. Also, love the shaky part of each first letter. It adds to the spooky bat/manbearpig effect. Why on EARTH did the wreckerator choose that shade of grey?!
After following this blog for so many years, I should know better than to try to drink coffee and read the blog. Auck! At least I saved the monitor and got coffee all over my tee shirt.
AUCK. I agree with the posters - manbear/manbat ? What IS that figure anyways? And WHAT was this wreckorator thinking offering up this cake as a "duplicate" for the sweet owl cake ? STOP drinking that Kool Aid,dang it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ROTFLMAO, as always! Thanks Jen.
Thought it looked more like a lemur than a bat...those large eyes...only..it has 3 wings??? Or maybe it's a striped lemur? I really don't know!
Bat? I was thinking Lemur. Definitely not an owl, anyway.
It reminds me of a child's marker drawing. A child who can spell and not reverse letters, but a child nonetheless.
It's a bushbaby. Clearly the baker was like owls are so passe, I'm going to do a cake with a bushbaby on it.
Wow, looks *just* like the picture
...amazing
Well, there is sort of pink icing and something like a tree branch. You have to give the wrecker some credit for his/her copy "skills." I just had to add air quotes there, did you catch that?
It sort of looks like a pink and grey panda...
SWEEET LORD! My monitor is full of coffee! I swear it was an honest reaction..... must taste like nightmares do
What do these folks do when they order cakes that come out so poorly? Do they get refunds? Take the cakes and log complains?
I think the baker must have been really busy and let my 6 year old son decorate that cake.
I really don't understand how some decorators can be called "professional" when they produce cakes like these...
The lady that made that nice cake Corrie Rasmussen has a Craftsy class showing you how to make her
beauiful cakes. Maybe next time, just purchase her class instead of ordering a cake from another baker 😋
THAT is a hipster/furry bat chick wearing its favorite "Hot Pink Animal Novelty Hat Cosplay Beanie With Paws Gloves." Hat comes with "Matching Sweats Loungers Black With "BATZ" Pink On Butt." And no one should mock someone's personal style. HAVE WE LEARNED NOTHING FROM EPBOT.COM?!?!?!?!
I see a pink meerkat being attacked by giant leeches.
Oh yeah, I can see the lemur now too.
None of us have yet addressed the weird extra ribbon of grey frosting on the top portion of the cake. Why? Just...why?!
That's what happens when you stop in bat country.
no no not Manbearpig, Puppymonkeybaby.
I'm pretty sure it's puppy -monkey -baby
I just wanted to say how super stoked I was to see someone else with my name spelled the same way!!
That wreck looks like an interpretation of the phrase "when pigs fly"!
I'm not sure what it is, but I'm pretty sure it wants to devour a dead carcass. I think it's mostly the branch that gives off that vibe.
Not that baby bats aren't super cute, but WHY would you want one on a cake???
Bwah hee hee hee hee @Susan!!
Don't get me wrong, I love Cake Wrecks. However, when you see a really amazing cake A) order it from the original baker or b) sigh and order a standard sheet cake from someone else.
This cake looks like something my kids would have done for Mother's Day, definitely NOT a real baker?!
If I'm spending more than $30 on a cake, I most definitely want to see the baker's look book and possibly read a couple good Yelp reviews? I'm not trying to put Wrecks out of business but if it's important, double check the baker.
This is god awful, it looks like a 3 winged bat
Love the Anastasia reference!
As for the gray, you mean I can't get alternating pink, olive green, blue, and brown stripes by putting all four colors in my piping bag together?
I'm thinking it's either a pigbat or a pigpenguin. I do know it is NOT an owl. :(
That cake is driving me quite batty. :-D Sorry, couldn't help it.
Oooh! A panda-lemur-penguin. Those are VERY hard to draw, especially in icing. This baker nailed it, though.
Hmm owls and bats must be the same to the wreckerator. Shoot just add in a tree that looks like a snake and then you are all set lol. I swear I would try not to laugh if I saw this cake in a display.
That looks like a pink bat!
I love CorrieCakes. But I don't see her work anymore... Anybody know why...
Finally! A concrete image for "bat-s*** crazy"!
"Cambree" Camembert + Brie. Very French