This was in the display window of a bakery in Austria.Which is interesting, since I had no idea Austrians were INSANE.
Still, my knee-jerk reaction? This hip fondant feat kicks butt! Yep, those limber "pedals" should "garter" serious props from the ankle-biters.
Now, who wants to see Footlight Parade?
(Count the puns, my friends. COUNT 'EM.)
Trish B., I bet this cake costs an arm and a... aw, you know.
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I got 7 puns, don't think I missed one.
This is like a cake representation of a female version of a Chuck Norris roundhouse kick. Make it a man's leg with a cowboy boot and jeans, and I would totally want that.
oh my goodness, I LOVE that cake! I mean that. It is amazing. Leg cake. Everyone should get one.
That looks like a serial killer's trophy case!
This is for sure one of the more entertaining wrecks that I have seen. So wreckish it is almost appealing. I can't really decide if I would buy this cake. I think I would.
Becky
Christmas Story leg lamp, anyone??
Can I just say, what bugs me most about this cake is not the freaky multiple-leg design (I'm used to freaky on cake wrecks) but the fact that ONE- just ONE - of the legs is going in the opposite direction of all the others. If you're going to go to the trouble to hand-mold a bunch of (fairly well done) fondant legs, wouldn't you make the effort to put them on the cake correctly?
Reminds me of the lamp in A Christmas Story.
I really like this cake!! The idea is odd, but the execution could've been waaaaay worse.
Great cake for wishing a loved one good luck on their first day as a Rockette... or at the strip club? Or maybe it's finally lil Ralphie's 21st birthday LOL
I have to say it's very pretty though and I'm loving the little bows at the top of the legs. I wonder if they're plastic or fondant as well (the legs I mean not the bows).
Wow! Although I often marvel at the "wonders" presented here at Cake Wrecks, I've never felt the need to post a comment before. I am simply awestruck at not only the hideousness of the cake and the frightening dismemberment but Jen's ability to find abominations from all corners of the globe for our entertainment. Bravo!!!
Toni
We have an Austrian cake wreck! I had nearly given up hope. And it looks nice, too, if you ignore the... well, the legs. But nice colours. And flowers. Hello from Vienna *waves*
Nah, it's just an Austrian attempt at the Welsh triskelion. With roses.
http://wapedia.mobi/thumb/476514628/en/fixed/470/433/Three_Legs_of_Man_-_Triskelion.jpg?format=jpg
The funny thing is that the actual artistry is beautiful. Smooth, delicate, nice colors.
If it were anything but dismembered stripper legs...
-- abadidea
It's . . . surprisingly well done, albeit freakishly so. Except the feet are too small. But - I might actually buy it!
Reminds me of the movie "A Christmas Story" When the father gets a lamp in the shape of a womans leg and he is so proud of that ugly lamp.
Now let's see some edible stilettos.
Can-Can-Can you do the Cakewreck?
(hi kicks)
Is there a holiday attached to this wreckage???
Be nice to have at the midnight screening of "Rocky Horror Picture Show"
MJC, I'm with you! Why go through THAT much work, and make ONE leg go the wrong way? It feels like they're trying to make some kind of statement that I'm just not getting....
WV: sigher. Really doesn't NEED an explanation, does it?
Perhaps this is in celebration of a new prosthesis? I'm having trouble thinking of another scenario where this cake would be at all appropriate LOL.
wow, this cake belonged in "A Christmas Story" for sure!
Austrians? Insane? Do you not know who the governor of California is?
BOOYAH!!!
Good puns!
What I'm confused about is why one leg is facing the wrong way?
Are they marzipan legs, or fondant? If they were marzipan I'd eat them all!
Another thing, "Footlight Parade", that poster is freaky looking! I don't think even the real dancers had legs that freakishly long!
I also would have been 'weirded out' by the fact that James Cagney was in it, until I saw a documentary on him recently and discovered he actually got his start as a dancer, not a gangster, in the movies!
:)
And, strangely enough, a guy in a Spidey suit bought this cake!
^..^
(Yes, I know there are only six legs on the cake, but work with me, people!)
WV: gunbolin. "Is that a gunbolin your pants, or are you just happy to see this cake?"
I love the puns, Jen! You rock!
Listening to my husband, BIL and SILs, I can see this cake appearing as a "thanks for all that you left us of our barbie dolls back when we were kids!" as my husband and his brother did toss the girls' dolls up into the drop ceiling and they'd never return with all of their limbs. Yup... perfect cake for them!
I'm glad I'm not the only one who noticed the single leg placed facing the wrong direction.
Weirdness aside, the wreckerator did a pretty nice job on that cake.
So many deflowering jokes ricocheting around in my head!
This makes me think of Dexter.... Don't know why...
Six legs, does that make it an insect?
Methinks someone is a little to ennamored with the Christmas Story leg lamp.
I like this cake. I would make this cake. But with buttercream, not fondant (bluch).
Whoa. Maybe it's a tribute to the three-legged emblem used by the Isle of Man and Sicily, but...more flamboyant, to salute the resilience of amputee showgirls? Whichever way you throw this cake, it stands!
For someone with a foot fetish?
Not to be nitpicky, but one of the legs is facing the wrong way.
Yeah... I was gonna comment on the one reversed leg. But um... someone beat me to it so I really don't have a leg to stand on. Perhaps if I came here earlier, I'd have a leg up on the commenting.
I'm in the Odd Leg Out camp. What?? Also I am impressed with the soles on the shoes. they look at least as good a ballet slippers.
I think this cake deserves A Major Award!
It's looks like a girly version of the flag of the Isle of Man. With more legs. Hm.
Busby Berkeley? I'm going to concentrate really hard on production numbers best appreciated from above the stage, because all I see is a red cake covered in women's severed legs, and I wonder if there's a serial killer running a bakery in Vienna. Kind of like Sweeney Todd lived above the pie shop?
*shudder*
This is totally an interpretation of the Polish poster for "Cabaret."
http://beautifuldecay.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/Picture-71.png
I like it, it's more quirky than wrecky IMO. Skilled decorator too.
8 puns
W.V. Lesista, from a word in foreign language meaning "leg." this is the name of the cake you see above
Incredibly distrubing. By the way, congrats on the writeup in FIRST for women for the February 8 edition!
Count me among those baffled by the Odd Leg Out. I mean, it looks as though a woman is face down in the cake, with other legs flailing about her...
Something is very wrong.
The decorator spent waaay too many hours watching Yosemite Sam on WB cartoons. Sam had an obsession with can-can dancers.
/dada da-da da-da dada da-da da-da dada da-da da-da dahh.../
Aren't rosehips an herbal suppliment?
here's the real question... are they all left legs? If so, I refuse to dance with it.
is there a "creepy" category. I think it's creepy. and weird. and definitely beyond bizarre. Any explanations from the Austrians yet?
I'm just waiting for all those legs to coordinate their efforts and roll this cake right out of the window to make their escape . . .
Liz in Seattle
love how they all lead up to a rose...
in my effort to write something that hasn't already been said, i will say this:
the front and bottom-most leg, upon closer inspection (i clicky clicked on the picture) appears to have some unsightly cellulite on the back of the thigh.
yeah. that's all i got.
Reminds me of Silent Hill for some reason... *squick!*
9 Puns? Dang, that's some serious work to come up with that many in that short of an entry! Skills!
Creepy AND really well made! What are the chances of that happening? (again)
The legs are gorgeous, really. Creepy as all get out since there are so many and they're not attached to anybody, but still... really well made. I can't even begin to fathom what kind of order came in to produce such a thing.
All I'm saying is that Hitler was an Austrian.
Think about it.
Talk about suffering from foot in mouth...... I thought I was bad with my TWO left feet.....
Boy, I thought I was bad with my TWO left feet... talk about suffering from foot in mouth...
Ugh! Okay, what did they do with the rest of the Rockettes?
But aside from the dismemberment it's a lovely little cake.
Strange but really, beautifull done.
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So the humor here is one of my must-stop-by places everyday.
gives new meaning to the question, "Who wants a leg?" formerly attributed to serving turkey.
what's the occasion for this thing? valentine's day? (red roses, etc.) or maybe they misunderstand our Christmas movies over there in Europe and they think it's a way to celebrate the holiday based on the "Major Award" leg lamp in "A Christmas Story"
What the crap???
I see I'm not the only person who immediately thought of the "major award" from Christmas Story. :D
WV: nopine, as in, This leg is made of only the most modern materials, and no pine!
wow. I'm impressed with you people. This cake is like a Rorshach ink blot to the psyche.
Some see serial killer victims (trophies), some see can-can dancers, some see strippers, other see flags for Broadway shows or the Isle of Man (I'm getting quite an education, here!), others see the major award leg lamp, others see mutilated Barbie dolls (these people have probably had therapy from the teasing of older brothers), still others see it a a celebratory cake for someone getting a prosthetic limb...
"So tell me," *tapping notepad with pen* "What does this cake mean to you?"
So what is this? A bachelor party cake? Rite of Passage cake? Major Award cake? Groom's cake?
and still others are obsessed with the one leg facing the wrong way... Obsessive compulsives, please stand up!
This cake reminds me of the June Taylor Dancers from the Jackie Gleason Show. Anyone else here that old? Anyone? Anyone?
You didn't know Austrian were insane? That's where Freud comes from. And you can just imagine what he would make of that rose!
This is definitely for the Christmas Story lover in the family. "Its a Major Award!"
Good to see I'm not the only one who thought of the mannequins from Silent Hill...
Nona Mausi, the triskellion is not Welsh, as indeed the link you gave makes clear. It's the symbol of the Isle of Man.
I got eight puns, myself.
This cake is perfect for a bachelor party or a dance line team it has its place
This may be a pun on the town of Fuessen, which is 5 km from the Austrian border, and whose shield is 3 legs. (A pun on the German word for "feet".) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuessen
It reminds me of Dexter, too. When the Icetruck Killer put the dismembered Barbie with each doll part tied with a red ribbon in Dexter's fridge.
Does this post make anyone else think of the Big Lebowski? That's what comes to mind for me...
maybe they saw "a christmas story" too many times??
I love this!
Make it for a viewing of "Moulin Rouge"! Serve absinthe alongside, and you just know someone's going to be propositioning the pastry...
the leg -- you know, the one facing the wrong way -- maybe it dances to its own tune? marches to a different drummer? makes total sense!
if it is an accident, though...
I love this cake - it's sooooooo sexy!!!
That cake creeps me out a little because it reminds me of the mannequin monsters from Silent Hill, but prettier. Maybe it's less freaky if pretty mannequins try to kill you in dark alleys..
http://silent_hill6.tripod.com/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/mannequins.jpg
It's the birthplace of Hitler and Bruno! This is to be expected.
There is a space creature on the old Muppet Show with legs that run in circles, sort of like they're pivoting and/or on a wheel. But it had fuzzy, Muppety legs, so this is just the regular kind of freaky, I guess, and not of the Jim Henson-sponsored variety.
"...since I had no idea Austrians were INSANE." Cracked me up. I love the delivery.
Oh, I can definitely see this as the new accessory in the CW jewelry line, next to the carrot jockey necklace....awww yeeeaah!
Will it come in a box that says "fragile" (sounds Italian.) Maybe I will get THAT for my hubby's birthday. lol
I've read this story - it ends badly for everyone.
You didn't feel like a heel making all those puns? (Sorry, I couldn't pass up the chance to add another pun to the total)
ROFL! That's all, just ROFL!
-Julie
Baker to self "What do I do with all these left over legs from the dolls I have been putting into cakes?"
Creepy
Groan... you are on a serious roll with those puns today!
Not that I'm complaining, mind you. ;)
I actually kinda like this cake. The legs are actually made very good. Kinda weird, but if you just had your legs amputated for some reason would be an interesting cake to get. *yes, I know I'm sick*
That Footlight Parade poster is absolutely scandalous! Much more so than the creepy cake. Some weird leg holiday?
I'm counting around ten puns... or maybe nine. Well, ten if you count the Footlight Parade, I guess. :P
The feet are kinda scary... but yes, the legs are very well done. :D
Anyone notice that the leg to the right is the only one facing right?? All the others are going left in a circle..... um...I wonder
It must be a major award!
she's also got cankles...
I thought it kind of looked like some sort of complicated synchronized swimming pose, except that would necessitate blue frosting...
so it's not chicken... but I'd take a leg. Wonder if it taste anything like lady fingers??
This cake makes me smile! It's pretty, fun , bizarre and a tribute to Busby all in one!
Nice Roses!
Great Gams!
#1; Did it TASTE good?
bet it did..
!
Reminds me of Sicily. Hmmmm.
I...I...I don't understand this cake. This confounds me more than those supermarket messes.
I think I need to lie down now.
Maybe the bakery was just trying to see cake decoration from a different ankle... heh.
WV: thery - Freud had a thery that sometimes a leg is just a leg.
This reminds me of A Christmas Story: Must be Italian. . .It says, "fragile."
amazing cake
Awesome cake!
And thanks for the mention of "Footlight Parade." It's no "Golddiggers of 1933," but our favourite juvenile lead Dick Powell is in it so that makes me happy.
What were we talking about? Cake or something?
I also counted 7.
The thing that bothers me most about this one . . . I actually think it's pretty, actually . . . is that one is going the WRONG WAY.
I'm fairly certain MJC is my soul mate (or, should that be "sole mate").
My first reaction wasn't that it was an odd cake and I didn't question the subject matter. The first thing I noticed was why in the world would someone not make sure all the feet were pointing in the same direction? That's just messed up.
I've had a pretty terrible day and was just about to go to bed when I remembered I hadn't gotten my daily dose of wreckage. So, I wandered on over hoping for a laugh, and was definitely rewarded for the trouble :) Thanks for all the punny, wrecktastic times Jen and John!
It's definitely not appetizing, that's for sure. But well made, nonetheless. No wonder so many are so confused about life...which came first: the confusion or the leg cake? Thus we have: confused people baking cakes = wreckatators galore.
reminds me of the creepy barbie jewelry.
http://www.margauxlange.com/
One of those legs is back to front. Unless it's facing the right way and all the others are wrong?
What's the occasion? Bachelorette party???? 6th time around for a murderer?? wheel of torture?
That's what i want to know. but other than that, amazing design and craftsmanship!!
Nick,
Just for a moment, consider this:
WHAT IF...that leg is the only one going the RIGHT way....?
Hmmmm?
=^-.-^=
How... very odd! Is it weird that the first thing I thought (well, after 'that's weird') was how much I'd love a pretty red bow garter like those? LOL!
Many years ago, I received one of those wierd black and white birthday cards, which had a group of pigs in birthday hats and the words "nothing says happy birthday quite like a cake in the shape of your nose!" However, I think that could be changed to "legs"!
Eeeek! Why did I read this while eating breakfast? Lol, though this is definitely not as bad as some of the other unmentionables Ive seen!
Anna Marie
You guys do the best puns!
All I could think of seeing this was "A Christmas Story."
Glad to see that I am not the only one suffering Dexter (Ice Truck Killer!) flashbacks with this cake!
My first thoughts on this cake were 'push me pull you', but that doesn't work out evenly.
Voulez vous coucher avec moi ce soir? That is about all I got left for this one.
Epic pun win! I think you set a record, Jen! I applaud thee. And thanks for the laughs :)
what is really really bothering me with this cake is that one of the legs is facing the the oposite way of the rest of them. WHHHYYYYY????
I bet this cake helped them get a "leg-up" on the other bakeries in the area and really "kick-started" their business. At the very least, it must have helped them get their "foot in the door" of a highly competitive Austrian cake-wreck market.
Yay! Thank you for mentioning Footlight Parade! My favorite movie!
It reminds me of synchronized swimming for some reason.
Fuggling hilarious! You've got mad skillz in the pun department this week! Hope you didn't step on any toes with this one! (sorry)
I'm torn between being extremely disturbed at the disembodied legs, and the fact that I think its a really cool looking cake.
Wow...didn't Alice Cooper have an album about this a couple of years ago? The subject of the album was, ahem, collecting victims to build a life-sized 'spider', or something like that?
Jen, I love you. Thanks for everything.
Savanna
I am loving the biker babies! But wait.... Are those carrots?! Oh well, they ARE only babies... I just loved reading your book "Cake Wrecks" and I wanted to find your blog... My mom and I love that book! The whole family thought it was hilarious! Jeez, pretty mucha great blogging inspiration!
Looks like one veeery sexy starfish.
I'm so lonely!
d.edwards
I was about to say something about Hitler, but then it seems that at least 3 people beat me to it.
The cake is pretty though, despite being... um... freakish. (is that even a word?)
-whimsicism
I've seen this design a lot. It is from the musical "Cabaret", which is about WWII and is probably more well-known in Austria.
It is a fantastically done cake, and very nerdy for those who are into musicals as much as I am.
The legs in a circle comes from one of the dance scenes in the musical.
-Deserae
I followed that link to Footlight Parade and lost an entire day to Wiki-surfing.
Tthis cake belonged in "A Christmas Story" for sure! - Definitely xx