Friday, October 17, 2008
This Post is Brought to you by the Number 809
Friday, October 17, 2008
Not only that, but your voting made CW win by a landslide: 300 votes more than second place! Of the 37 or so categories on BCA, I think I only saw 3 other winning blogs with more votes than Wrecks: most winners had between 200 and 500 votes. Wow. So thank you - all 809 of you - for your completely spontaneous support: I am just floored by your response, and very grateful.
Now, about your evil henchmen duties...
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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.
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- “Will have you laughing so hard you’ll forget to eat!”— Washington Post
- “a hilarious winner” — The Oregonian
- “a fantastically gut-busting book”— NPR
- “It’s all here, each wreck a disaster of hilarity.” — BookPage.com
- “Hysterically funny!”— Epinions.com
- “laugh-out-loud funny”— The Times
- “Yates’ sharp humor makes the funny even funnier.” — The Dallas Morning News
- “an amazing laugh-out-loud book”— The Book Triblog
What the fans are saying
- "I was laughing so hard, I couldn't catch my breath."
- "As funny as the blog that started it."
- "WAY better than I expected!"
- "Cake Wreckery at its best!"
- "Wrecktastic!"
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- American Mensa:Top 50 Websites of 2010
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- The Orlando Sentinal “Orbbies”: Winner Humor
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- 2009 Bloggies: Best Writing of a Weblog, Best New Weblog, Best Food Blog
- The 2008 Weblog Awards: Best Food Blog
- Blogger's Choice 2008 Awards: Best Humor Blog
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congratulations! the blog truly is hilarious.
Congratulations! A much deserved win!
Congratulations, Jen! You and your wreck-tastic pics deserve it!
Congrats! Now don't get all crazy on us and think that you can become TOO important for us little people. KEEP THEM WRECKS A COMIN'
Congratulations! It's certainly well-deserved. I look forward to Cake Wrecks every morning to start my day off with a laugh.
Congratulations - well deserved.
Plus that Mom2mysixpack is a formidable foe. She made me pee my pants a couple of times, but just not as reliably as you.
:'-) <--- tears of laughter.
Contgratulation!
Are you going to have an *ahem* cake to celebrate?
Congrats - you deserve it!!
Marianne
www.crochetbymommaj.etsy.com
crochetbymommaj.blogspot.com
"Congradumalations". I found your site yesterday via a friend's recommendation and I have shared it with all my work colleagues. I have achieved nothing at all today save for giggling over your pics. I am now, though, truly terrified. For I have a professional cake on order for my Dad's 60th and it is based on a trout. I think I may be in trouble...I will of course be in touch should the dreadful happen...
Congrats!
Congrats!!
Congrats, or should that be Congratwats? :)
Congratulations! I won for best blog design last year. :D I got my little trophy and some schwag. Still was cool. :D
Congrats 2 U !! You totally deserve it! No other blog has me ROTFLMAO as yours does!
BLOG AND WRECK ON! luv.m.
this is one truly desereved laurel! may your days be filled with more wreck-tastic cakes! :D
loved your blog!
keep them cakes coming! :D
Congratulations, Jen!
As always, thanks for the wreckporting. It makes my 8:00 class so much brighter every day, especially when I have to fake a cough to keep my laughter in. Which is every day.
Congrats! Your blog is one of the funniest things around!
Huge congrats! I have long aspired to be a henchman- or henchwoman- or henchperson as the case may be.
Awesome! (And I didn't even get to vote!)
Congrats!!! It's funny... I read number 2 (Because I Said So) as well. Both are brilliant, but I have to say, you've left me gasping for oxygen more often. :)
Congratulations! Keep up the great work. Thanks for all the fun.
congrats!! well deserved.... while the others are funny, yours is more consistently so and the only one I visit daily for my morning laugh!
I made my mom vote too...
This is the worst post yet. Very little humor, poor quality picture of a cake. I don't even get why it's "wrecktastic".
WORST POST EVER!!!!
(BTW, congrats! :D )
Congratulations!!! I found this blog about a month or two ago, and I am here every morning to see what you have for that day. I love it! Your the best!
Congradulations! Congratwat! and Congratulations! Great Blog! I visit every morning.
This is my favorite blog in the world. I'm so glad you're getting the recognition!! <3 <3 <3 Congratulations!
Yay!!! Congratulations! I love you site and tell everyone about it. Way to go. Keep it up!
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Congratulations! Your blog is lots of fun in a time when bad news abounds... and it's calorie free!
CONGRATULATIONS. You deserve this award your blog his hilarious. I just love it. It always brightens my day.
You've been tagged. If you have free time and would like to participate please see my blog for details. Thank you for putting together great blog.
Yay! Congratulations! It's nice to see a PG (usually), friendly, fun, whimsical site win an award like this.
The power of cake!!! (thinks of Jim Gaffigan...)
congrats!! you're blog makes my day. :)
Congratulations (or however you spell it ;-) )! I love this blog!
I didn't vote. There was voting? When? Where? Do you have to be a member of the academy to get a ballot? Am I just clueless? I would have voted for you, Wrecks. You're awesome.
Congrats!!!!!
I enjoy your blog Emensley! I look forward to the new post each day! They are hilarious!!!
Thanks for the laughs and congrats again!
Ha! Too funny! I read 1st place AND second place. :)
Congrats! It is very well-deserved.
Congratulations! This is the best blog ever!
Cangrtalation's! Congralulation's! Woot woot!
"Congratulations" on the win! This is the best blog ever.
Congrats!
Congrats! I'm relatively new to your site but I love it! Shame, my blog didn't even come close!
Yay! Your blog has replaced coffee in the morning for waking me up. More wrecks, I need more wreckage!
Keep it up. I want to be wreckporter!
Every time I went to vote, their server was down. I was feeling guilty, but no more. Yay!
Your blog is the only one I know guaranteed to make me laugh out loud every visit. A well-deserved win. Now, more cake wrecks, please!
name the duties - i love your blog!
I would of voted but I've only just found your blog. Its cheered me up no end although I couldn't understand wht you had against cupcake cakes, as I pictured in my mind a lovely stand full of cupcakes, and then I looked through your blog and oh my goodness! I can't tell you how much your blog cheered me up, I've just had to share it with everyone!
yessss.....
Couldna happened to a better blog!
Con Grad Lu Ashuns!!! Do you want sprinkles on your cake?
I'm waiting to see this on a wreck: "Conflatulations!"
As stated by everyone else, you deserve it! I'm so happy for you.
With all due respect, your second place competition has quite a following and is responsible for sending this reader (and I'm sure many more) your way. And boy am I glad she did. I pass you along to anyone who will listen. I'm so glad you won!
So, yea, where's the celebratory cake?
ps Also, thanks for the Jim Gaffigan connect. Love him, too.
U rock! Keep the fun coming!
Congratwat Jen. Underneat that (in green)
We love you!
Awesome!!!
Congrats!
I am really happy my vote counted for something!
--Brianna
Congrats. Well deserved. Doesn't a cake come with this?
Alix Hice
http://casahice.blogspot.com
Woo hoo! Congratulations! Now we can all say we "knew you when ..."
Congratulations! Or should I say "congradulshuns" or "kongrats" -- but then it would look too much like writing on the wrecks!
I love your blog - the wrecks are terrific, but your commentary is the BEST! Please never get bored with this stuff -- there are a lot of us who check out wrecks first thing in the morning at work! Thanks again! Stephanie Wolf
OMG! Congratulations! (spelled correctly) You totally deserve it. (no quotation marks)Yay!!!!!
Without a doubt, this blog is the best. It brightens up my day, no matter how craptastic it seems. (my day, not your blog) Cheers!
Congradulaton's
on your "win"
want rosette here
you deserve at least a 1000 votes!
Congrats Jen! You totally deserve it. Your blog stands out among humor blogs because you are very adamant about not hurting the wreck-makers feelings, about not being MEAN for the sake of a good laugh.
Wreck on Jen! We can't get enough!
Didn't you win the Best Blog too?
I looked at the runner's up....no competition at all.
A loyal fan
Congrats! Sorry though, I only hench for myself.
very good. I enjoy the site. Did you mean to write 2oo? A long twoooooooo I geuss. Oh well there might be a spelling class somewhere around here. Congrats.
Congrats! You deserve it. After reading for several months you win hands down. No contest, really. I love your comments AND the cakes. Both make you the blog I read first. You make me laugh all the time.
Wooohoo Jen!!!
thanks to this blog I have an anxiety attack at work everytime I have to write something on a cake. But at least I get to laugh at other peoples wrecks!
Congratulations!
Under Neat That
You deserve it!
Oh I'm so glad for you! Man I love reading your blog every day!!
Big congrats! Your blog makes people that much happier! :P
WAAAHHHOOOOO! But thanks to Dawn at Because I said so...she tipped me off to your blog! CongraDulations... (tee hee)
You truly deserve it! Congrats! Thanks for making my day start fabulously!!!!
congratz......
You earned every vote! so funny!
Woo-hoo! Congrats! You deserve it! Keep up the wrecky goodness. :D
E.T. E.T.
Congtwats On Your Win
Under Neat That
We Love You Jen
(In Green)
E.T. E.T.
Congratwats Jen :)
Great blog, well-deserved win.
congrats! i love your blogg and stop by all the time for a good laugh! your so funny and the cakes are hilarious!! i now walk by the bakery at our local stores and really notice the cakes there. my mom always made our cakes and I have made my daughters hey if its homemade it is allowed to be a wreck right:)they have turned out well so far but she is only 2:)
Someone did bake her a wreck though for her 1st bday. I wish I took a better pic of it was a barbie cake on top of a heart cake on top of a square cake with no supports!! The colors where brown with yellow crystal sugar crystals, purple with red so everything melted into each other and sank into each other! The kids refused to try it as did the adults! (she had about 60 guests and no one wanted to try it!!)
I had made a three tier cake for her bday so I had enough cake without that one was sad to set in on the cake table next to the one I worked so hard on but I had to display it because it was a gift but it was BAD!!!
Congratulations, definately well deserved! I love the awfulness every day but I love the sunday sweets too- restores my confidence in cake decorators!
Keep those wrecks coming
In wanting to be completely fair in my voting, I decided to check out the top 3 leaders. In all honesty, cake wrecks was the only blog that I could read through all day long and still laugh. I don't even remember being able to conjur up even a teeny giggle when looking through the other two(no offense to the bloggers involved). It was a well-deserved, hands-down win and I look forward to voting again NEXT year!
yea!
Congratulations on the win.
Congratulations! This is the ONLY blog I have ever enjoyed reading. It is the first thing I go to in the morning while sipping coffee! Keep up the awesome commentary!
Congratulations! I voted for you guys! I check here every morning!
~Hyla
http://earthyfinds.blogspot.com
Write "congratulations" on it.
Whoo! Congratulations! So glad you won. You are the best!
Congratulations! Do we get to take over the world next?
Those other two aren't even funny. I laugh til I'm crying when I read your blog.
Congratulations!! I love reading your blog, you definatly deserve the win!
Congrats you definitely deserve it! You crack me up every day and so do my fellow cake wrecks blog stalkers!
Congratulations! Your blog makes my day!! Thank You!
Congrats!! I was one of the 809 who voted...yes, I went through the rigorous process of creating a login to do so. But it was well worth, this blog is thoroughly entertaining!
Not sure what your long-term goals are, but you are doing a great job of honing your writing skills via this blog. Hopefully some day I'll be reading a hilarious book of yours.
Congratawat!! "You" have a grate "bLog"! The misspelinngs alwayz make me "lauGH".
Put spriNkles on it.
I am another one who came over from Dawn at Because I Said So, and I read you both faithfully every day. It's a one-two punch of light-hearted, clean (mostly) humor!
[insert misspelled congratulations joke here]. It should have been an even 810, (or plus whatever running number of people who were not able to vote + me) because I registered but was never able to get it to work. Im glad so many others were!
Your blog truly is something I check every morning first thing. It's a great way to start the day.
Congratulations!
Conga-rats! I meant to vote but had forgotten. Sorry about that. But glad to see you won handily anyways! Yay you! Your blog is quite amazing. Your win is well earned.
"CONGWATULATONNS" WITH SPRINKLES
under neat
IN GREEN, YES THE RED GREEN!!
best "wishes" JEN
all on a cup cake please
hehe
Great Blog
!! comgradurelation's !!
You're blog is the beast
& very hilarious under neat that "2"!
Congrats! That is totally the opposite of wrecktastic! :-)
I love your blog
Congrats! Your blog is hilarious! I found you on Blogger's Choice after we were nominated for 2009. You got my vote!
Jan
Yay! You earned it. This is by far the funniest blog I've ever been to. Not just funny every now and again, but funny every day. Thanks for making me smile (and salivate).