Cake Wrecks

I stumbled on this site last night:

Cake Wrecks
When professional cakes go horribly, hilariously wrong

It struck me as interesting because I am hopeless at decorating cakes myself.

We've discussed this already.

I'm thinking about cakes at the moment because my good friend Swift Jan recently made a cake for her Dad's birthday. The finished product was amazing! It so closely resembed the picture she modelled it on, I was in awe. I thought only Cake Fairies could do that, not mere mortals. But maybe with Swift Jan, I've been entertaining a Cake Fairy unawares.

I'm sure she won't mind if I post two pictures: her model, and her finished product. Get ready: this is rather awesome.

Left: the picture she modelled it on; right: her finished product, which was in my books, simply amazing!

Now check out these cakes that fell far short of the pictures they were modelled on.


I'm not good at cakes. But I'm not this bad. And there's no way that I'd make something like that and believe it was anywhere close to the picture I'd been given as a model.

You're getting the picture, aren't you?

Now I'd like to show you the funniest concept I've ever seen in a professional cake. Ladies and gentlemen, Allow me to introduce to you ...

The Naked Mohawk Baby Carrot Jockey Cake

And the ever-festive

Anti-Sexual Harassment Cake

And then there's THIS. I'm not even going to show the picture. Follow the link if you dare.

If you're feeling down and need a laugh, please go to Cake Wrecks. Whether you are good at cakes or bad at cakes, it will lighten your mood.

Unless one of your cakes is featured there, I guess.