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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 MSTing with baking.

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Tropes used in Cake Wrecks include:

• 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