Anyone here a fan of Cake Wrecks?

[kentauros]

I can't seem to get any traction in The Lounge any more for badly-made cakes

All Intensive Purposes

[Warpy]

1. Yeah, but I find some of them really sad

because some of them are copies attempted by bad bakeries and I imagine the disappointment was horrible. They probably tasted fine but oh my gawd.

Other sites also appeal to me, like the divorce cakes at http://mentalfloss.com/article/31298/14-creative-divorce-cakes and the white trash wedding cakes at http://www.sarcasmbecausebeatingthehelloutofpeopleisillegal.com/2013/04/redneck-weddings-cakes-i-20-pics-nice.html

Those cakes are beautifully done, but oh, my! And this barely scratches the surface. There are some truly gag worthy baby shower cakes out there, anatomically correct if you know what I mean.

I've been hanging out with foul mouthed knitters too much lately, I think.

[kentauros]

3. Are you one of the Guerilla Knitters? :)

I know what you mean about the baby shower cakes, though only from Cake Wrecks. I believe their iconic image of the baby carrot-riders is from a shower cake

Some of those divorce and redneck cakes were quite funny, while others were a bit creepy. CW certainly has its share of creepy and disgusting, too, such as their first page of this year.

[CherokeeDem]

2. Funny site....

Wandered around a bit and found the fine art cakes....

Van Gogh's "Sunflowers" is my favorite...

.http://www.cakewrecks.com/home/2013/9/15/sunday-sweets-fine-art-cakes.html

[kentauros]

4. Yes, when they feature the artisans of the pastry world

it's always jaw-dropping amazement, versus the jaw-dropping "what were they thinking?!" amazement of the wrecks

[msanthrope]

5. I have a t-shirt of a baby riding a carrot....so, yeah! nt

[kentauros]

7. I guess I'm not quite at that level of enthusiast yet.

I may have to buy one, though

[winter is coming]

6. Yes!

I experienced a minor cake wreck of my own. Years ago, I ordered an ice cream cake for my best friend. It was supposed to read, "Birthdays Suck," and my order was correctly written down. The day I picked it up, an Asian woman was working the counter, and she must have done the final decorating, because it read, "Happy Birthday Suck" and she clearly thought "Suck" was a person. My friend loved the cake.

[kentauros]

8. If you have a picture, I'd say that's worthy of being put up there

I have an even more minor cake wreck, too. A company I worked at from 2006-2009 had their 13th anniversary in 2007. So I decided to go to one of our local bakeries I love and knew did fine work. I know I was careful in writing out "Happy 13th Anniversary PESI" which is the company name. Now, I may not have put periods between each letter, yet after the fact, I had thought I'd made sure of that. This what I picked up:




The owner told me later about how they often got calls from people asking to speak with "Pesi"

[winter is coming]

9. LOL!

Sadly, I don't think we had a picture of the cake, just fond memories. As soon as I picked up the cake, I took it back to the townhouse I was sharing with my best friend. She was upstairs, still getting dressed. A few other friends arrived one by one, and I showed each of them the cake. They all shrieked with laughter, to the amusement/alarm of my best friend, who had no idea what was so funny about the cake.

[kentauros]

10. Memories are good enough

because it all ties the event together. But if you get another one, take a photo, then turn it into a birthday card for following years