If you haven’t already seen it, take a look at the Web site CakeWrecks. But be sure you’ve got some free time on your hands and a box of Kleenex.
I just discovered this unique site that’s dedicated to professionally decorated cakes "gone horribly, hilariously wrong." I was laughing out loud by the time I found the Castle Warfare Cake, constructed largely of toilet paper rolls and featuring orange and red gumballs to simulate the severed heads on the ground.
And I laughed ‘til I cried over the full-size replica of a bride that was entitled “When Brides Have No Budget (Or Taste).” The blogger posited the question: “What kind of ego does it require to commission a life-sized replica of yourself in cake?”
The site asks readers to send in photos of cakes botched by professional bakers. The results may be tacky, tasteless, creepy or just damned stupid. Pictured here, far right, is a wedding cake called "a detailed bond Diorama," complete with crashed plane and teetering columns. And the self-described Anti-Wedding Cake with a dead groom at the end of a "bloody" trail??? It's hard to imagine what that bride had in mind, but if I were the groom, I'd watch my back.
I especially like the posts that include the brides' "inspirations" or "dreams" and the bakers' pathetic attempts to comply.
Here. left, we find the bride's vision which the blogger calls "not bad, I guess, if you've got a Brave Heart kind of vibe going on for your wedding."
The photo below shows what a PROFESSIONAL baker came up with.
The blogger's comments are even funnier than the cake shots themselves.
Erm. It's like seeing double, isn't it?
I mean, sure, the second one is collapsed in on itself, slumped over to one side, and channeling a bit more Bob Marley than William Wallace, but besides all that I’d say the decorator was bang on, wouldn’t you? Ok, ok, if you wanted to get picky about it, I guess that crack in the bottom – the one you can see the cake through? – that probably should have been iced over. Oh, and the red stripe might look a little nicer if it were one continuous line – or for that matter, if the line were straight. (Perhaps a little too much Red Stripe was consumed before icing the red stripe, eh? Eh? Come on, that was freakin’ hilarious, people: Bob Marley? Jamaican beer? Booya!)
For folks looking for a quick fix for the funnybone, CakeWrecks lists its most popular categories: Mithspellings, Oh-So-Ugly, Beyond Bizarre, Creative Grammar and Literal LOLs. .
Oh, no, Mo!
This is beyond a doubt the funniest thing I've seen - you KNOW how my funnybone works.
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- Jan Norris, sweating out the storms here in SoFla...
Posted by: Jan Norris | September 10, 2008 at 03:24 PM