Cake Wrecks

Cake Wrecks is a blog devoted to the collection of pictures of astoundingly ugly, poorly-made, or otherwise entertaining professionally-made cakes. Jen and John, the married couple who run the blog, collect user-submitted photos and make a new post containing one or more cakes every day except Saturday. Sundays are devoted to "Sunday Sweets", cakes which are actually well-crafted and attractive, as an antidote to the weekday hideousness.

In the words of Jen, "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."

Think of it as MSTing with baking.

""Last I checked, turtles don't walk around facing the sky.""
 * A Worldwide Punomenon: And how.
 * Accidental Pun: Some of the bakers create punny cakes without themselves even knowing!
 * Barbie Doll Anatomy: Sadly averted with some cakes.
 * Berserk Button: Jen really HATES cupcake cakes.
 * Looks like edible photo paper is becoming good at pressing the old Berserk Button, too.
 * Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick: New Year's Resolutions.
 * Deadpan Snarkers: Jen and john (the hubby of Jen).
 * The Ditz: Some of the bakers, evidently.
 * Does This Remind You of Anything?: Numerous cakes come out not looking quite like the baker intended, notably the "turkey poo-wang" cakes.
 * Epic Fail: A regular occurrence. Especially when a cake ends up inedible, for some reason.
 * Everything's Better with Chocolate: No, no it isn't.
 * Everything's Even Worse with Sharks: Shark-Attack Cupcake ... Mountain?
 * Expo Label: These, among others.
 * Food Porn: Many of the Sweets. Some of the Wrecks could be considered Food Gorn, particularly the one that caught fire and melted--in front of Kerry Vincent (called the Simon Cowell of cakes).
 * Freudian Slip
 * Gag Boobs: Some of the supposedly-human-shaped cakes.
 * Gag Penis: The space shuttle cake, albeit unintentionally so.
 * Giftedly Bad: Most of the featured bakers.
 * Gretzky Has the Ball: The writers admit they know very little about sports. Some of the wreckerators know even less.
 * Hair-Trigger Temper: Not a few people that show up here.
 * Hurricane of Puns: Often.
 * Insane Troll Logic: The only explanation for some of the cakes.
 * Kill It with Fire: Literally. Here.
 * Literal-Minded: Another common trait of wreckerators, as shown in this infamous example.
 * LOLcats: Referenced a few times.
 * Malaproper
 * The Mockbuster: Parodied here.
 * "Not Making This Up" Disclaimer: One post featuring long-neglected, disgusting-looking display "cakes" (styrofoam iced up to show off the decorators' skill) had to clarify that they were all from bakeries that were still in operation. (For now.)
 * Overly Long Gag: Twenty-two individual choking opportunities.
 * Poor Communication Kills: Many wrecks are the result of phone orders. Case in point: the memory stick.
 * Pungeon Master: Jen and John are unapologetic about the volume of puns in their writeups.
 * Rouge Angles of Satin
 * Running Gag: "I want sprinkles", the "naked mohawk-baby carrot jockeys (which is now part of the site's main banner!) and Epcot.
 * Serial Escalation: Just when you think the cakes can't get any dumber or uglier, they do.
 * Spell My Name with an "S": Names get misspelled in some pretty impressive ways, the best one probably being this one.
 * Subverted Rhyme Every Occasion: In this entry about a wedding cake that appears to have sperm decorations. "Roses are red/And cake can be pretty./How sad for you,/'Cuz yours looks all.../[eyeing children]/...unpleasant.
 * That Came Out Wrong
 * Trivially Obvious: "1 Dad". Not "#1 Dad", just a dad.
 * The Illegible: Incoherent inscriptions are par for the course. Happy Falker Satherhood!
 * Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma: Quotation marks seem to suffer the most, e.g. the mildly worrying "Thanks For Being Our 'Dad'."
 * You Fail Biology Forever: Most of the cake depictions of humans and animals are anatomically impossible.


 * You Make Me Sic