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You're welcome.Thanks to Susan H., Liana E., Nathan S., Dana H., Taryn, Kerry M., Adam D., Wendy M., Mollie B., who think these cakes look pretty tearable.
That sonogram cake looks like the big alien eating the little alien that pops out of its mouth.
ReplyDeleteI don't know about all of you but I'm going to run out and invest in one of those edible paper companies right now! (Seriously, if "The Graduate" was being made those two words would be "edible paper." I hear there's a great future in it.)
ReplyDeleteWow. I've never seen a sonogram of the actual conception before. That's really getting ahead of the game!
ReplyDeleteIs it bad that I read that post with the voice of "wacky wavy inflatable arm flailing tube man" in my head?
ReplyDeleteThat's probably how my friend got the Jonas Brothers on her birthday cake.
ReplyDeleteI was embarrassed to be at that party...
"Good luck" with a HEARSE??? I don't think they want that guy to fail, they want him to REALLY fail!
ReplyDeleteThat fried chicken photo really made my morning. Stopped the munchies dead. Ugh.
ReplyDeletewv: angste
These cakes generate a lot of angste.
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ReplyDeleteBWAHAHAHAHA!!!! I totally lost it at the casket cake. Now I have to figure out how to sneak one of those into my next sibling's birthday party...
ReplyDelete@barn I'm so glad I wasn't the only one to think that. I feel like (slightly) less of a perv now.
ReplyDeleteI'm horrified that any of those decorators looked at those cakes and said, yup, that's good work!
ReplyDeleteI really hope my store doesn't start doing that. We don't have a photo transfer machine so I guess it's a given that we won't do the edible paper thing.
I bet it tastes nasty.
Every single time my faith in humanity dies a tiny bit. Someone at one point really thought these things were a good idea *shudders
ReplyDeleteEvery time I think "nah, it can't get any worse than [insert odd cake], I'm SO, SO WRONG.
ReplyDeleteA casket? A hearse? A box of questionable chicken? What, they couldn't spring for the KFC at least?
I don't even have words for how very odd these are.
Captcha: monsta Only a blind monsta could think these cakes are ok!
@thesacredandtheprofane: yes! I was just about to make that comment myself!
ReplyDeleteIt's the WACKY WAVING INFLATABLE ARM-FLAILING TUUUUUBE MAN!
I've been reading these for a long time, and that TV dinner cake is one of the most disgusting things I have ever seen. The colors! The image of greasy fake chicken on frosting! I'm going to have to stop reading until this pregnancy is over...
ReplyDeleteAh, but my WV is "readue" - I have to readue every day, regardless of the risks!
Yuck. I have enough fiber in my diet, thankyouverymuch.
ReplyDeleteThe fried chicken cake made me gag. No way would I eat that. Yech!
ReplyDeleteOh, and this post gives a whole new perspective on the phrase "gallows humor."
ReplyDeleteI just sat here at my desk and said:
ReplyDelete"Whah-whaaaah." (but - you know - imagine it all nasally)
Not the first time a Cake Wrecks post has caused a crack in my fraudulent mask of professional behaviour.
I'm going to order one that says "This page intentionally left blank."
ReplyDeleteAre we sure that is a human baby in the last cake!?
ReplyDeleteI was just wishing Taryn good luck in her new job as a hearse driver when I got to the casket cake. I actually jerked back in my chair. I grew up in the funeral business (explains a lot) and I was disgusted by that cake.
ReplyDeleteThen I got to the sonogram and I was whatever you call one step beyond disgusted. @barn, saw what I saw, so I know it's not just me!
WV: godymiz: Godymiz the tastefully decorated cakes of my youth.
ROTFL!!!!! Great narration, as always, to these awful, awful wreckies. THANK you!!
ReplyDeleteWhat on earth are people asking for???? D:
ReplyDeleteI can't help but point out there are SIX candles on the casket cake. Please tell me nobody would do that to a six year old...
ReplyDeleteI have been to kids birthday parties with edible paper photos on the cakes and they do taste terrible. I think it tastes like black pepper!
ReplyDeletegreat commercial!
ReplyDeleteis Karla marrying the motorhome? where's the stick figure groom?
Felicia and Perry are getting hitched. To what? Each other? a trucking business? that nuclear green icing is really unappealing.
Taryn! good luck for WHAT? in the afterlife? as a funeral director? with her snazzy new budget used-hearse wheels?
Is Hampton turning 6? is he the son of a funeral director? WHY IS THERE AN OPEN CASKET ON HIS CAKE???
These cakes disturb me more than the gross ones. how creepy!
Now why do routine medical exams require cake? do people have ultrasound parties now? wait until you see 3D ultrasound cakes (and you thought edible babies were creepy)
The chicken cake makes me wonder...did the baker accidentally put their lunch package on the printer and decided not to waste the printout? who wants a cake with a package of chicken on it? seriously? who are these bakers/customers???
I wonder if you can eat edible paper right out of the package. And how many bakers tried that... (human impression of a goat)
ReplyDeleteCan one still buy um.. edible undies?
ReplyDeleteOh the possibilities.
Sweet and what? Lewd?
Mocking
The Banquet cake amuses me -- clearly it's for someone who LOVES fried chicken. I appreciate how the baker tried to match the box colors with the frosting and "happy birthday" script.
ReplyDeleteOne of the MANY reasons I HATE the guy from Cake Boss: He's obsessed with edible paper! He used it on a cake for OPRAH! Good grief.
ReplyDeleteAlso his cakes are hideous compared to the ones posted here every Sunday.
I'm in love with the casket cake (and i wouldn't put it past my family to give it to me, either)... but an edible sonagram? 0.o ((whimpers))
ReplyDeleteRemember, wreckers: just because something is possible, that does not mean you need to try it!
These cakes need sprinkles.
ReplyDeleteI'm trying to think of a situation in which somebody would actually want a coffin on a birthday cake.
ReplyDeleteNope, can't think of one.
The voice in my head while reading this post was the same guy in the Monster Truck Rally commercials.
ReplyDeleteAnd regarding the fried chicken cake, I'm sure the customer asked them to make a cake that looks "just like fried chicken - like on Ace of Cakes ya know?"
wv "remoub" It's going to take some effort to remoub that last cake from my mind.
I think the time has come to blame the consumer. Some customers actually asked for these and now we must be subjected to them.
ReplyDeleteIt's a sad state of affairs we have found ourselves in.
sigh.
I am very glad to know that I am not the only one who saw what I was not supposed to see in the Sonogram Cake. That Sonogram tech must be Kinky!
ReplyDeletewv: I can't believe that Sonogram tech was trying to take an image of the sparms before the conception.
I hope the "Good Luck" cake is for a budding mortician ... but I doubt it.
ReplyDeleteWV: "drotten". No further explanation neeeded.
#1 (following examples b & a): Is Karla 5? Is the happy couple going to live in the RV? Now refusing to follow that line of inquiry...
ReplyDelete#2 Felicia and Perry could be truckers, I suppose -- there are quite a few couples doing that.
#3 Please tell me Taryn just entered the funeral business. Though I scarcely think 'good luck' is needed -- that's one line of work where a shortage of business is not a problem. 'Death becomes it', indeed.
#4 Hampton the Hampster, perchance? No, I am NOT implying anything sinister happened to that most unlikely of media stars, just playing off the name. We good?
#5 Mmm. Red frosting. Now that's good eats.
#6a is a classic literal. So, it would seem, is 6b. So...Got any more Passover cakes, Jen?
WHAT??? WTF is with the hurse and the casket?? I don't even understand how someone would make that mistake!
ReplyDeleteOK, gotta comment on the clever title. "Paper view", I believe, is a take-off on pay-per-view...
ReplyDeleteVery subtle, maybe too much so, but I liked it!
wv: inife There are an inife number of ways to wreck a cake!
Is edible paper leavened?
ReplyDeleteIn the past, I never understood the comments people made about spitting coffee/breakfast on their computer screen/keyboard/cat when seized with a paroxysm of laughter.
ReplyDeleteUntil today. The edible sonogram made me lose it.
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There - my screen looks clearer now!
"I WANT SPRINKLES"
ReplyDeleteToo hilarious! You could go into business writing infomercials! Gotta wonder what kind of logic the wreckerators were using to combine some of those pictures and captions.
ReplyDelete@barn, Usagi, KiriD et al
ReplyDeleteI totally did not see what you saw until you mentioned it. Now I can see nothing else. What has been seen cannot be unseen.
Although I would add that if that is the case, I think the patient has a severe case of vagina dentata.
I hope this makes it past the censors. (hi John, Jen, & #1!)
In defense of edible paper, um... I forgot what I was going to say...
ReplyDeleteWV: (I kid you not, here, this really IS my WV) Ingests - if someone ingests enough edible paper, will he need toilet paper?
I know everyone else saw, uh, uhm, the moment of conception in the sonogram. But really, it looks like a raging eagle attacking Voldemort.
ReplyDeleteDon't know if that's more or less disturbing.
For future reference:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.sadtrombone.com
;)
Like Strawberry?
ReplyDeletehow about RAWBERRY?????
Edible paper will make you run like a Kenyan.
You'll have SEVEN HUNDRED BABIES.
maybe Karla and the future Mr. Karla are going to be living in a mobile home?
ReplyDeleteBut the coffin cake? Happy Birthday? and 6 candles" trying to put those 3 together...wow, it either has to be a joke for a milestone birthday (30, 40...). If not, the other possibilities make me worry for our society.
wv: guess (no, seriously, it IS). sums up cake wrecks and their wreckerators perfectly
Edibile paper? Ew. Just ew.
ReplyDeleteEven big-time cake decorating companies like Wilton are getting in on the "edible paper" trend. Check out their newest product--the Punch, Cut, Decorate! http://www.wilton.com/pcd/
ReplyDeleteAll I can say is TACKY!!! I thought Wilton was supposed to help people decorate cakes, not scrapbook on a cake. Yuck!
My Daughter Taryn is going to lve that hearse cake !!!
ReplyDeleteall I can think is with friends and family who think up these cakes who need enemies?
ReplyDeleteThe only thing worse that random clip art on a cake is an actual photo of a person, especially a child. The first time I ever saw a photo cake was at a child's birthday party and they were getting close to cutting into her face. I was horrified.
ReplyDeleteAnd let me join in wishing Taryn the best of luck in the afterlife! If ancient Egyptians had hearses and edible paper, cakes like that would be found in tombs of pharaohs!
I am an artist and I am thrilled with this new medium. I cannot wait to explore its tenacity and abundance!
ReplyDeleteOh. My. Gosh.
ReplyDeleteThe "Good Luck Taryn" cake has me in awe.
My daughter's name is Taryn. And she's graduating high school next month!
Think she'd let me put a hearse on her grad cake? ;-)
-signed, ShellMG
aka "Taryn's Evil Mother"
Poor Hampton. Six years old and he's got a casket on his cake.
ReplyDeleteMy all-time fave is the cake in the first picture with the rainbow image where you can see the paper peeling up at the corners. Now THAT'S class! Or not. You decide.
Taryn going to hearse driving school? If Taryn doesn't have good luck at they will be the only one hurt in the car
ReplyDeletethat banquet cake is so funny hahah
ReplyDeleteMaybe little Hampton likes horses and the wreckerator couldn't read the writing?
ReplyDeleteOkay, the one with the hearse on it--what exactly are they wishing Taryn good luck in? Her death? (In which case, that is so not cool--she can't even enjoy the death cake.) Maybe she's starting a new career as a hearse driver or funeral director? Hmm...
ReplyDeleteI think this might be the first post without any spelling mistakes (on the cakes, I mean)
ReplyDeleteMaybe it's the sixth birthday of Hampton Funeral Home? Anniversary would make more sense, but a casket on a person's birthday cake doesn't make any sense anyway.
ReplyDeleteAm I the only one thinking about Michael Keaton's character in "Night Shift"?
ReplyDelete*blinks* Okaaaayyy. This is sad. Sadder then usual, I mean. ;P
ReplyDeleteme, personally, I dont think the edible sugar sheets are so hideous, all depends in how you use them. (made a "stack of hundred dollar bills" cake using an enlarged picture of a bill on a sugar sheet) It's how you overuse or abuse the medium that makes it hideous. Ive seen some horribly tacky things done with gum paste and fondant, and I personally hate the overly sweet playdough taste of fondant, doesn't mean that I think no one should use it.
ReplyDeleteI really want to know the story behind Taryn's cake.
ReplyDelete@ Sue ZQ et al, I would think it's MORE cruel and tactless to put a coffin on a 60 year old's birthday cake than a 6 year old's because the 60 year old is a lot closer to the coffin.
ReplyDeleteYou should hire this guy to do the commercial:
ReplyDeletehttp://youtu.be/YtespeLin2c
I seriously don't understand why more people aren't making use of edible paper in their everyday lives... Just think: Students printing their school projects on it could leave it around for their pets and then truly say "the dog ate my homework". Easy peasy!
As a cake decorator for a grocery store that uses an edible image machine, it's not as easy as print most of the time. The edible ink gets clogged and it can literally take an hour to finally print a good edible image of the customers cat. LOL!!
ReplyDeleteI guess the pictures on these cakes are exactly what the customers wanted to have printed on there. What else are the bakers supposed to do?
ReplyDeletePaper view -- heheheh.
ReplyDeleteI can't help myself -- I have "everything's a song cue" syndrome.
To the tune of Paper Moon:
Oh, it’s only a paper top
That’s stuck over a big sheet cake.
But it’s something that Sandra Lee
Would really love to make!
Oh, it’s only a casket pic,
Why would that make a person stare?
And I wonder if Karla plans
To marry Yogi Bear!
Without much taste,
Must be seen to be believed -
An ultra sound
That looks much like the act when the kid was conceived!
It’s a Hewlett and Packard cake,
Just as inky as Brenda Starr.
Hope that eating it won’t earn me
A ride in Taryn’s car!
oh, sweet honey mustard!! we go from cakes shaped and decorated like babies to actual fetus photos??
ReplyDelete"yes, honey, we were so excited you were going to be born that we ATE you in effigy."
(horrified crying)
-Barbara Anne
I saw an awesome South Park cake at a show once and was astounded by the intricate and exact detail of the characters until I looked closer and could detect the printer lines. I was then utterly disappointed. It felt like cheating, especially in a competition. I don't begrudge businesses edible images or Cricut stuff because it's fast and sells, but in a competition I find both highly off-putting.
ReplyDeleteI must admit I am guilty of buying a cake that had an edible Star Wars design on it lol. It was pretty good..if you pretend the paper is just thick frosting. That sonogram cake would make me run screaming from the room.. cause who would want to eat a picture of their baby lol.
ReplyDeleteOh goodness! The ultrasound cake looks like a hot mess. The one with the truck is kind of ridiculous too. Oh and the one with the chicken on it....wow!
ReplyDeleteI'm speechless. Just...speechless. Were *any* of these cakes requested with those printed images? (and you're not the only one hearing "wacky, waving, inflatable arm, flailing tube man!" when you read this, thesacredandtheprofane!)
ReplyDeletebad taste from birth to grave
ReplyDeletewv: ellytoi...yes, I'll eat...OY!
unfortunately there was an error
wv: exter...I'll be exter careful this time
I totally read that post with the Power thirst guy's voice yelling at me...
ReplyDeleteReading the narration, all I could think of was the movie "UHF". Spatula City...SPATULA CITY! Where we sell spatulas...and that's all! Guess it's appropriate for a blog about cakes...
ReplyDeleteEllen, you are simply awesome.
ReplyDeletetips hat
-Barbara Anne
@Barbara Anne:
ReplyDeleteThanks! :::curtsies:::
I will never be as funny as the Cake Wrecks crew, but I have my moments!
I laughed so hard that snot came out of my nose. Wow. I love this blog.
ReplyDeleteI would be the type to asks for a Banquet fried chicken cake. Awesome!
ReplyDeleteI wonder if you have thought about doing a Sunday Sweets of edible paper? There have to be some people that know how to do it right.
Ugh, my family freaking loves these cakes. Eww
ReplyDeleteedible paper.. but is the ink edible? really?
ReplyDeleteYou get what you pay for. All of those cakes were probably under 20 dollars. Furthermore, it's not the decorators fault that customers order picture cakes. For instance? The one with the Semi? I have no doubt in my mind the person who took that picture picked the design out of a book, and they got what they ordered! After saying that.. a lot of these are just ugly! That is the decorators fault, lol.
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