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.
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December 18, 2008 "HI HI HI!"
I thought this was the decorator's version of Santa on too much sugar before I realized those are really skinny 'O's. Which is odd, considering that the decorator could have just used the six extra cupcakes to make all the letters the correct size. *facepalm*
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Reader Comments (68)
Yeah, and then it would have been an even 2 dozen instead of 18 cupcakes. Whatever! Since following your blog, I had never known how "Wrecky" the world could be. I've even spotted some scary Santas at our local store!
That's...sad.
I'm thinking someone was HI HI HI when they made this cupcake cake!
-Misty
Or used a cupcake as the "O" each time. I mean...they are round.
Doesn't help that the red is actually more orange. I thought this was some football-game "cake" until I looked closer.
ROFL. This tops carrot-riding-mohawk-babies.
Only Americans would put cupcakes on top of a cake! lol I haven't seen a wrecky cake in person this holiday season, but I saw hideous rice crispy treats with gloppy frosting at a drugstore last night. They were scary!
Before reading your text, I thought they said, "HI, HI, HI" too. I had to go back and really look. You would think that since Santa is so jolly, his 'O's would be nice and round, and not on a diet.
I was looking at it confused until I had that AHA moment when I realized it said HI HI HI. Uh, then I read your commentary.
Hee-hee-hee! Or rather, HE HE HE.
Anorexic Os
I can honestly say that I, too, *facepalmed*
*Shakes head* Seriously!
Yes, but would they have actually fit if using four CC's for the 'O's? It'd be pretty squished if the words were arranged the same way. Maybe if they were arranged stacked diagonally...
How funny! It looks like hi hi hi. So cheerful.
It took me so long to see the HOHOHO, all I could see was HI HI HI.
And here I was thinking it was some hyperactive decorator spewing a cordial greeting. Thank goodness you interpreted.
All I can think here is that this is some strange mash-up of Santa and Paul McCartney.
Mari: At first glance, it does look like the CCs are atop a sheet cake, but they're not.
Word verification: surearl as in, "Those skinny Os are surearl."
Huh?
Mitosis in cake form!
Well, I guess economic cutbacks have hit everywhere. When the supervisor says only use 18, you have to get inventive.
Oh, I just thought it was a salute to our 50th state, Hawaii!
You don't have to put extra cupcakes in the package though--there are six cupcackes just sitting there being decorative. Put them to work being Os.
You know how those inflatable Santas puddle on the ground when they are deflated?
That's what happened to these O's.
Word verification: noment. It only took a noment to make the skinny O's.
I think that decorator was "hi".
word verification word: pheical
is that phonetic for fecal? Or maybe the above mentioned decorator chose it...
Some of the commenters here seem just as dense as the decorator - there are *24* cupcakes total here, not 18. Thus, the statement in the original post that the decorator could have used the extra six (the ones decorated with trees off to the side) to "round out" the O's. I thought it was fairly straightforward, though apparently some people either can't count or pay very poor attention to detail!
That's so bad it's good.
Angie (from over at www.HalfAssedKitchen.com)
Ha! I thought of that old McCartney song too!
word verification - fiden...as in 'where do you fiden these wrecks?'
It's like a four-year-old: hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi!
I'm still confused.
I thought this was a tribute to the movie Heavyweights - Hi, hi, hiya!
Instead of doing the unnecessary Christmas tree cupcakes, couldn't she have used THOSE six cupcakes to make decent Os? Just a suggestion...
At first glance I thought this was "Hi Hi Hi" !!
CUTE!!!!
I love it!
I wanna make it if I could,
but I don't wanna eat^^
I am glad you cleared that up on the HO HO HO. I never would have seen it. I was sitting there thinking....HI HI HI???? Huh? And the Santa mounds from the other day? Hilarious! Maybe someone had been drinking prior to slapping those together!
OK I am so glad that I wasnt the only one to see hi hi hi I was like huh?
Oh, I'm so glad someone sent you this. I actually saw this at a store somewhere this week, but I didn't have a camera handy. Hi, hi, hi will be my new Christmas greeting to people.
See, I didn't realize this was a wreck at all, or that the mistake was they put HI HI HI instead of HO HO HO. But then upon closer inspection, it does indeed say ho ho ho, and they're just cheap on cupcakes.
f*cking genius. we're not really surprised that americans can't build good cars either, are we?
Hi! Hi! Hi!... So not celebrating the Mickey Mouse Club then?? :D
Wow Sarah, I'm surprised they published your comment being it says above the form:
Profanity, mean-spirited remarks & blatant advertising will not be published.
I'm having flashbacks to discussions of "central core imagery" in my undergrad women's studies/art history class. Alas, these are supposed to be "ho hos", not "hoohoos".
It's clearly celebrating the immortal words of The Winslow! :-)
http://www.thugdome.com/slagblah.html
http://www.cafepress.com/airship/179853
(In fact, I even thought those little green things were Winslows until I looked closer and saw the were trees.)
HAH! I totally saw "Hi Hi Hi!!"
The good news is that they are frosted nice and neatly.
I agree with Misty. I thought it said HI HI HI. I was thinking that the bakery folk had a touch too much caffeine.
Ugh.
*facepalm* At first I thought it said "Hi Hi Hi", and I was just like, "Oh, that's kind of cute." And then I realized it was supposed to be "Ho Ho Ho" -_-
"Cheery O's"
Brilliant!
Has anyone noticed the latest addition to Blogs of Note? It appears we could have an all out war on our hands!!
beth
I'm a bit sad, as I work in a grocery store and I haven't seen a single wreck at my store the whole time I have been reading this site! I thought Christmas would bring out a few (I'm Australian and our Halloween is not a big thing and there is no Thanksgiving), but the bakery is too conservative.
Until I read that, I swore it said "Hi hi hi".