Tuesday
Apr192011
Off By a Hare
April 19, 2011 Ok, bunny cakes! This is your week to shine.
HIT IT!
Um...
Very attractive.
(Get it? 'Cuz it's shaped like a magnet? Eh? EH??)
But seriously, that's terrible.
Oh COME ON.
You're joking, right?
And this is just cheating.Badly.
What the...?
A sunburned mouse? Really?
Look, maybe you should just go back to cheating.
'Cuz this is getting disturbing. [shudder]
Those eyes are staring into my soul.Hold me.
C'mon, bakers, you can do better than this! Let's try for a big finish, eh? Ready? Aaaaand....
GO!
AAAAAAIIIIEEEE!!
Reader Comments (130)
Best part about all these cakes?
You ended the post with a Queen reference :D
I sort of like the bunny log too...it was disturbing, but in a nice sort of way. (Okay, I've been reading this blog too long!)
The bunny log cake kills me. It's funny to see so many defending in in the comments! The perfect cylinder of a body is just too weird (although, yum--ice cream cake! I'd totally eat it anyway.) I think my favorite part of it is that this is the model version, the pinnacle of what a bunny log can aspire to be. I really hope someone sends in a picture of an actual, ordered bunny log cake, as we all know something critical is usually lost in the execution.
The sixth one is also great-- reminds me of a muddy hippo, emerging from an algae-riddled pond to stare surreptitiously at its prey. I mean, yay Easter!
--kate
The 6th one is a casting reject from the Star Trek TNG episode with the angry oil slick entity that sucked up the crew.
I, too, like the ice cream bunny log. Nothing beats the ice cream/frosting combo! Yum!
Number 4 looks like the result of an unatural relationship between a rabbit and Thomas the Tank Engine
I hope your Sunday sweets will show these nimrods how it's done!
Freddie Mercury and Queen reference = Awesome!
Bunny cakes not so much.
Bunny Roll! Haha, that IS indeed a Baskin Robbins cake. I'd made a dozen or so in my BR career. These too - http://www.brcaterings.com/NEw%20img/Fluffy%20Bunny%20Cake.jpg
Behold, Fluffy Bunny.
If you can find an actual Bunny Roll or Fluffy Bunny cake in a BR, they'll probably look way worse. They're pretty awkward to make, and I dreaded making them. I was a pretty good decorator, but these always looked... um... wonky.
My 2.5 year old daughter was sitting next to me as a read this. Here are her labels for each cake (without being prompted):
1. Dog!
2. Cat!
3. Bug!
4. Bunny!
5. Bunny!
6. Bumblebee!
7. Mouse!
8. Elephant!
9. Bunny!
10. Maniacal laughter
So I guess some of them were close.
Actually, cake no. 4 is rather cute.
...in a bluish, barrel-shaped way...^^
I am like 90% sure the third one down is a cooite or a love-bug. Which made sense until I realized easter is no where near St. Valentine's day.
I saw the purple cylindrical bunny in an ad on Sunday and said to my husband, "This should be on cake wrecks" LOL Glad to see I was right!
Usually it takes a lot to put me off of wanting cake - given my hard core sugar addiction - but seriously...these are disgusting.
Only $9 stands between you and sweet sugary goodness!
--glogions: I use bright pink icing by the glogions!
My 6 year old daughter asked me if a kid made the sun-burned mouse. lol. We think it looks like Jerry from Tom and Jerry. :)
I dunno. I kinda like the bunny log. Every year, I hide the contents several six packs of craft beer in the backyard for my husband to find.
no, c'mon, the purple bunnylog is just brilliant. Genius.
When Easter meets the Jersey Shore...SNOOKIE BUNNY LIVES!!!!! (re:Sunburn bunny)
Thufferin Thuckotash Bugs Bunny, I never knew your descendents would turn out so badly! -Sally mommatown.com
Thehorror, the horror D:
I can only assume that this Easter we celebrate the visit of the Pigbeaver.
The sad thing about this is that most of these cakes are grocery store cakes and coming from someone who knows (I, myself, am a grocery store decorator) they do not train you. Not only are you untrained but you're expected to decorate anywhere from 20-30 cakes in one day in no less than 6-7 hours if you're lucky. This is the reason why so many of these cakes look horrendous.
That one with the antennae has got to be a bug. Isn't it? For all that's good and holy! Let that be a bug!
The purple bunny roll with the little whiskers totally made me giggle! I would definitely have one of him.
I'm not sure that the first one is a bunny. Or that there's cake under all that icing. Or that it's safe to go near it.
The traces of the last person to mock its matted fur and yellow striped ears can be seen on its feet.
Beware the Bunny!
Michelle C.
The third one up from the bottom isn't actually a bunny at all. It's a perfectly serviceable depiction in cake of a cute little baby Bulette.
That last one has got to be a tribute to George Washington or something!!!!
The alien bunny with the clown makeup and green bow tie is actually really cute. I would eat that, true story.
My roommate saw number 8 and said "it's a puke pinata bunny... with toes..."
Have any idea which one of those are the easter bunny?
Does that pinata/meat/coconut cake have lights on it? What ARE those randomly placed bells/spots/rectangles???
I thought we had a pattern going starting with the "beebunny" cake then the "barrelbunny", the "ballbunny" and the "bearbunny", but "pinatameatcakebunny" just didn't fit!
I might actually get the bunny log. It's the most decent rabbit cake that I've seen. Toss out that purple frosting, though.
The sixth Chocolate bunny, is clearly the famous Bunny from the Black Lagoon....
Thanks, you guys rock!
I actually thought the log roll bunny was kind of cute but I burst out laughing when I saw the chocolate "What the..." nosing its way through the grass.
I actually think the bunny log is pretty cute.
I saw the BR commercial and thought about doing that myself for Easter....as a "refrigerator cake", OKA chocolate wafers and cool whip served with sliced strawberries. I think I'll leave off the bunny parts, though.
Rabid naked mole rat, chocolate armadillo, George Washington crossed with Bugs Bunny on steroids...by comparison that little purple bunny log ought to be on the Sunday Sweets. It was the only one that made me think, "Awww, cute" in the middle of a bunch of "What in the world? What were they thinking?"
Bugs Bunny not amused by the (wv) antics of these Elmer Fudd-type "bakers". If only we could see how he uses the Acme bunny magnet, the Acme chocolate hand grenade, and the Acme pinata to finish this cartoon.
--Blondie's Mom
In honor of #2
A, e i o u, a e i o u, a e i o u, o,
u e i o a, u e i a, a e i o u..
U? O R U
I think your comments below each cake is what really makes this post. Although, I've seen worse then the purple, Oreo bunny cake. Strong finish, though!
I think the purple one is great and a fine solution if you have alot of yule logs left over from Christmas...a dessert 'rebirth', if you will.
Call me crazy, but the little tube bunny is kinda cute. I looks like a happy little vacuum cleaner bunny.
I think number 6 is Cannonball Simp, a very odd looking dog from a children's book I loved when I was little.
The last one is not only frightening but particularly worryingly appears to have a British judge's wig on. I don't think it should be given that kind of power...
Victoria J.
Is it just me, or does the eighth one have elephant toes?
LOL...so these are the "Class of 2011" bunny cakes eh? What a fine bunch of cake wrecks they turned out to be!
...and at this point I feel oddly compelled to admit that my family gets the bunny roll cake (ours is ice cream) every year. And just to make it more of a wreck, ours has FIVE ears (for five grandchildren). The oldest grandchild is 24 and has had one of these at grandmama's every year of her life. Her wedding prep is interfering with Easter gathering, so this may be her first year without - the jury's still out on this one.
w-o-w. I saw the first one and immediately thought it had rabies. Anyone else think the wreckorators have been playing the Raving Rabbids video game too long?
Plus the poor poo bunny looks more like a hippo than any bunny I've ever seen. I think several people are going to have a fear of the Easter bunny now!
Oh hell yes!
Well you've finally done it. Put up a post where ALL the cakes are hideous. No redeeming qualitities to any of them. Very scary.