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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 MS Ting with baking.

This website contains examples of:

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.

"Last I checked, turtles don't walk around facing the sky."

You Make Me Sic

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 * [[Insane Troll Logic]]: The only explanation for some of the cakes.
 * [[Kill It with Fire]]: Literally. [http://cakewrecks.squarespace.com/home/2009/6/17/kill-it-with-fire-oh-wait-they-already-did.html Here.]
-* [[Literal Minded]]: Another common trait of wreckerators, as shown in [http://cakewrecks.squarespace.com/2009/01/problem-with-phone-orders.html this infamous example].
+* [[Literal-Minded]]: Another common trait of wreckerators, as shown in [http://cakewrecks.squarespace.com/2009/01/problem-with-phone-orders.html this infamous example].
 * [[LOLcats]]: Referenced a few times.
 * [[Malaproper]]
 * [[The Mockbuster]]: Parodied [http://cakewrecks.squarespace.com/2010/08/where-dreams-come-through.html 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.)
+* [["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]]: [http://www.cakewrecks.com/home/2010/7/22/wrecky-roughage.html Twenty-two individual choking opportunities.]
 * [[Poor Communication Kills]]: Many wrecks are the result of phone orders. Case in point: [http://cakewrecks.squarespace.com/2009/01/problem-with-phone-orders.html the memory stick.]