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Jul102012
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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
July 10, 2012;)
Reader Comments (140)
WHY, WHY, WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY?
Oh, oh, oh... I can't unsee that. Why can't I *unsee* that!?!?
Bakers of the world - Stop. Please just stop with the baby shower cakes. It never ends well.
That is all.
Ok, so it's evening and I'm just now seeing this. Now I feel a little icky inside.
The blue newborn baby still is the most awful thing I've ever seen. Now I feel a lot icky and have that picture in my mind. Help!!!
I think at this point that people may actually WANT to be featured on Cake Wrecks and why this cake exists at all. At least this is the pretty shiny story I’m telling myself so I don't have to ponder too deeply that someone actually thought this was a perfectly wonderful idea for a baby shower cake.
Scroll down wreck, indeed.
When this first loaded, I was not thinking anatomy... I initially thought I was seeing Minnie ears, presented in pink and white and an unexpected zebra print. In no way was I ready for what emerged. Urp. I need brain and eye bleach and one of the flashy thingies from Men in Black to deal with this one. GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!
Craig, does that unsee machine have a group setting? Could you please set it to High? We would all be eternally grateful.
I always thought those ultrasound photographs made the babies look like poo. That just confirms it!
The stuff you post on hear never ceases to amaze me, or amuse me. That is creepy beyond belief and has served to strengthened my resolve to remain childless. Lest some well meaning friend or family member would want to have a monstrosity such as this produced in my honor.
My eyes they burn! Make it go away!
Will someone please shoot me and/or have me committed if
I ever agree to make a cake like this.
Unseers: A pitcher of Lemon Drops. You'll still remember it, but you'll no longer care.
Austin Powers and I had the exact same expression! That was horrifing!
I was so completely unprepared for this. I actually let out a strangled kind of a scream when I scrolled down.
Also, Sharyn? You are my hero LOL
So, Craig, how's that unseeing thingy coming? Just curious. No reason.
nice technique, though. maybe that is a sonogram pic blown up onto edible paper?? hmmm, that may be even more disturbing, actually.
Sharyn-thank you for the song to make that slightly bearable. Because otherwise--just, NO.
@mel --"nom, nom, nom" put that right over the top (snort, giggle)
Like sqrlhrdr, I thought I was seeing Minnie Mouse, then I scrolled down. Yikes!
I am sorry--but that is the hardest I have ever laughed at your blog! I was happy enough with the creepy cake until I saw Austin Powers clip and lost it! My husband thinks I am crazy now, but thanks a lot!
That's about the second most terrifying baby-thing I've ever seen. And since the first one was the emergency c-section scene from Prometheus, that's saying something...
Um........
Can't sleep cake will eat me
Can't sleep cake will eat me
Can't Sleep cake will eat me...................
-Cries in the corner
Now I know, there is a reason not to use 3d echo pictures for cake.
It looks awefull!
As tragic as I think this cake is I find it hilarious that everyone is so mortified by the ultrasound picture of the baby. You know, the same picture you see every single day on facebook, people's fridges, emails and letters proclaiming "it's a girl" !! The same picture that every single one of you, if seen on facebook, email or letters of proclamation would ooo and awww and congratulate over.
You're all messed up.
Oh great another cake to make sure I avoid baby showers and any and all pregnant friends in the near future lol. Oh man wreckerators sure know how to deliver birth control..yikes never ever having a kid lol. And I have lost my mind since it is hot in here and we have no air conditioner so forgive me for any evil laughter you may hear in the future.
Wow. Do not want. Cannot unsee.
Or, to put it another way:
A double cakewreck
Technology goes too far
Fashion-missing top
OH DEAD GOD WHY? I choked on my breakfast. But the Austin Powers gif was perfect for this!
Oh......Crap.....That is the most terrifying cake I've ever seen.....
I'm gonna show it to my mother! :D
Bahahaha! Brilliant. That was one of the best posts I've seen in a long while. Perfectly executed. Austin Powers took the cake. (See what I did there? Executed? Took the cake??)
If you squint and tilt your head, it's almost kinda sorta.... No. It's still horrific.
I was so skeeved out by the baby peeking out that it took a couple of views to realize that it was also a creepy torso cake. That is one twofer that I will seriously avoid.
As an aside, most showers that I have been to, the guest of honor had no more input on her cake other than "what flavor do you want?" So don't always blame the new mommy/bride about these types of wrecks.
Ali, regarding: I find it hilarious that everyone is so mortified by the ultrasound picture of the baby. You know, the same picture you see every single day on facebook, people's fridges, emails and letters proclaiming "it's a girl" !! The same picture that every single one of you, if seen on facebook, email or letters of proclamation would ooo and awww and congratulate over.
You're all messed up.
No, we are not. Context is EVERYTHING.
Ultrasound pictures are indeed way cool, and a wonderful, even miraculous thing to view.
Cake is usually delicious, and the perfect addition to many parties.
An ultrasound image cake, however, in all it's highly defined glory, is disgusting. Are you supposed to CUT INTO and EAT that fondant baby-in-the-womb? And not throw up while doing so?
Unless this is a cake for a third-trimester abortionist, in which case i don't even want to contemplate the nature of the party being held.
You know - I really thought that they could do every disgusting thing they could do with the hideous baby shower cakes. Then comes this boob, pregnant torso, ultrasound image in the peekabo giant blouse hem stand-in for vaginal lips monstrosity and I believe it is times time for me to reveal my new rules for cake.
1. I refuse to have any cake with an image of a person, character, animal or anything that remotely can be construed as having a face. Thanks to cakewrecks I can't eat so much as a smiley-face cooie from Busken and I despise anthropomorphized food on tv - mini-checks, M&M's that walk and talk...anything.
2. I refuse to attend any event involving cake with asking specific details regarding what the cake may be like. I reserve the right to refuse to attend any event where the cake could rightly end up on Cakewrecks.com
3. Any cakes made for me must be met with my express approval. I strongly disapprove of any events that may result in a surprise cake wreck and, again, I reserve the right to refuse to attend until I am assured that I will not have cake wreck.
4. Cakewrecks justifies any woman planning her own baby shower despite centuries of etiquette saying otherwise.
not OK. not OK at all.
That...is the most disturbing baby cake I have ever seen.
@Ali
I find those kind of ultrasound images outright creepy. It's wonderful that you have a baby on the way but telling us using a washed out 3D image that feels soulless isn't helping! (Besides how many of those places in the mall that make those things have someone qualified operating the sonar machine?)
Green Sonar Jam
I do not want them on my cake
I do not want them on a rake
I do not want them here or there
I do not want them anywhere!
I do not want to see them on facebook
I do not even want to take a look
I do not find them very fun
I'm sure you enjoy you little bun
I know this baby thing is great
But that thing is creepy, Mate!
I have friends that are expecting. I should send them this and say "Don't do this!!"
I am posting this late indeed. I have not been on here in a while. I have been busy.
All I can say is Wow!!! Don't know that I could handle a cake like that at my shower. I prefer the ractangular cakes with the picture of the stork on the cake. They have gotten way out of hand with these things. ick. lol
. . . I actually happened to be eating cake when I saw this, and I spit it out. I has a sad now. And belly rumblings.
OMG Words fail me...
Ohhh, Theadare... Here kitty, kitty, kitty... Come see what Ali wrote! :-)
(Ali, you should run, starting 5 minutes ago. Trust me, I know - go look @ May 2012's posts... Or was that April?)
Sharyn, I am so not worthy! You must put out a CD! You'd be the next Weird Al Yankovic...but female! :-)
Can't remember who posted it, but I 2nd the motion to "Find the Men In Black and steal / borrow their flashy-thingy!!!"
AUSTIN POWERS! YEEEEAH BABY!
H.R. Giger's fifth birthday party.