Thursday
Jan152009
Think They're Organic? [smirk]
January 15, 2009 Ok, class, time for your anatomy lesson - Cake Wrecks style.
This is your brain:
This is your brain slurping spaghetti and trimmed with white icing:
(Ok, maybe not. I'm told it's supposed to be a kidney.)
I'm not sure this next one is professional, but I didn't have the heart to cut it:
"Call me ugly, will you? Why, aorta..."And this last one is reeeallly gross, so don't scroll down unless you have a LOT of intestinal fortitude.
I mean it, now, this sucker is GROSS.
What, you still wanna see it? Ok, but don't say I didn't warn you!
[averting eyes] I would say something clever here, but I have to go vomit now. Won't you excuse me?
Maren A., Louise F., & Monique R., my diet plan thanks you.
Reader Comments (255)
Oh dear, you've asked for it now. This thoracic cavity is the most disgusting inner anatomy cake I've ever seen. http://www.theyrecoming.com/extras/pumpkinfest03/
Really, don't look at it before breakfast. Not a professional cake, but a stunning subversion of virtuosity.
Why? Why, why, why, why, WHY would you order a cake like any of those?? *stunned*
word ver: defact
Defact is, these are just plain disgusting!
Why?? WHY?!?
If this is the way to celebrate a transplant or achieving doctor-hood, COUNT ME OUT.
First of all I have to say eeeeeeeeewwwwwwwwwwwwwww! Now that I got that off my chest, I do think the first one, while bizarre, is at least well done. As for the others, the only thing that comes to mind is WTF? I guess nothing says party quite like a internal organ cake - lol.
I just can't get over how intricate the folds are on that brain cake! They are so perfect, and all different. Gorgeous! Although I think the hemispheres are not joined in the middle until you get down to the corpus callosum.
I wish you could enlarge the intestine cake! I'm not easily grossed out.
I knew that was a kidney right on sight. I'm doing pretty good!
I actually like the heart cake. It's not so much a wreck. Very intricately done.
Ree
The brain is adorable, but the last one is begging to be reproduced in seafood. (Like snack cake sushi, only in reverse.)
I stand corrected. There really IS something worse than the kitty litter cakes. Barf.
Umm, I am completely at a loss for words with that last one....are those intestines???
ewwwwwwwwww
the first brain is cool but the rest of the organs make me want to gag!
Whoa, the heart one kind of looks like a half-dead octopus.
Please tell me that these wrecks are actually models for Anatomy 101. I can't think of any other reason someone would want one of these. Yuck!
I swear there are maggots in those intestines!but i (heart) the heart cake. It's awsome!
Why is the brain bleeding its gray matter onto the board? Gross...
O. M. G.
They are actually really well done, but I sure don't know why you'd want to eat them!
Gross or not, I think they're all very well-rendered. Although a Sunday Sweets of "internal organs" probably wasn't coming up any time soon...
I worked in a lab with surgeons for years. You'd be surprised what they can stomach during lunchtime conversation!
ok a kidney should be kidney shaped
And a question about the last cake .What is that black/dark thing which is draped over the liver
As a biology/neurology student, I can totally see people cutting that brain cake: "And once we've removed the temporal lobes- here's a slice for you, Jen- we can get a better view of the... oh, wait, it's all white cake textured. That DOES make it hard to identify the corpus callossum! Well, at least we have a nice frosting replica of the upper medulla..."
And the heart is pretty awesome! I've eaten chicken hearts, so I guess a cake heart doesn't bother me so much. In fact, it looks rather tasty!
The other organs, however, I'm not so fond of.
The only thing that would make the intestines cake worse is to see some ice cream melting on the top of it.....
I'm assuming that these cakes were for events involving medical professionals...but after looking at actual internal organs all day long who on earth would want to eat a cake-simile of one?
OMG....the abdominal cavity has me LMAO! :D
Rebecca
The brain was enough to make me sick. I hate the squiggly ickiness of brains. And the tangle of nerve endings at the bottom? Come on. That is goshdang DISGUSTING. Now i have to go find and eat a delicious cake to put this out of my mind.
ugh, I feel the dry heaves coming...
You should visit the Body Worlds exhibits and then you'd be amazed and completely gleeful to get an abdominal cake!
There are just some occasions that DO NOT require a cake!
Dear God Why?
I would eat the intestine cake.
(SSC cannibalism... om nom nom.)
I actually like these cakes for the most part. The brain cake is pretty impressive, but I could do without the weird squigglies. The digestive system cake is also notable, but the "Congrats Drew" message throws off the overall effect. I haven't checked, but I don't think I have a strip going diagonal on my liver.
Those are just teh awesum!
Registered nurse here. I love these cakes. Any other heath professionals out there? Notice that the heart cake has dark icing on the apex, indicating ischemia & an MI? Maybe it was made for a cardiologist.
They don't call it gross anatomy for nuttin'! LOL! (And I can think of a ton of people who would order these cakes - interns, residents, anyone in medical or nursing school, etc....um...me?)
I hesitate to ask what pathologist cakes look like. I would not want to give anyone ideas. If they do show up---can we save them for Halloween? Thanks.
I think these are some of the best cakes that have been featured on the site. Methinks they may have been ordered for horror and/or med-school related festivities. That intestine cake screams zombie party. The heart might come from a Poe-themed festivity. The kidney may even be connected to a dedicated Joyce fan for Bloomsday. A to the brain, kidney, and intestines; A+ to the gorgeous heart.
I just threw up a little bit.
WV: retter - the noise you will make when you look at these cakes.
That brain one...
... there are no words.
I am a big fan...HUGE fan of Halloween, and I love Halloween-themed baked goods. But even I have the rule: if it's not APPETIZING don't make it! No one wants to eat stuff that looks gross.
i've never much liked cake to begin with, but that last one... *gag*
I agree with Faith (& rare others) that these are great! I'd eat them, because when you cut it up & put it on a plate, it just looks like a piece of cake.
The whole intestinal cavity, in my opinion, was made wrecky by adding the cutesy ribbon & bows at the top left. Just do your writing on the stomach!
Let me guess--the heart one is for Hannibal Lector's Valentine's Day party, right?
---Blue Jean
Word Verification="Upragi", the sound you make when you see these cakes and your breakfast decides to revisit you.
Weird... I don't think my kidney wears lace. I'll have to ask.
New t-shirt idea! Use photo number one with the caption, "This is your brain on cake wrecks."
Those dangly bits at the bottom of the brain probably represent what would happen if you ripped the brain off the spinal cors- it's just a bunch of nerves.
Except for the kidney, all of them looked amazingly realistic. I could see them at retirement parties for a neurologist/brain surgeon, nephrologist, cardio-thoriac surgeon and GI docs retirement parties, respectively.
I must be a bit crazy. I quite like the heart. :) Yeah, I'm messed up in the head.
Wait, what? These are CAKES? Are the decorators insane? Oh wait, that's the whole point of this blog.
Can someone please explain why in the HAIL someone would think intestines would make a good cake? Nasty.
Hee hee, I adore these and would eat them all! I can imagine some wonderful parties for crazy students with these, and I would totally have been one of those students in high school/college.
Why do people think its a good idea to make cakes out of your insides? There is a reason we can't see them, lets keep it that way.
OMG...ewww...just EWWW!!!
There's a chocolate place in town that does a realistic model of a heart; they even consulted with a nearby hospital when creating it...but it's chocolate (dark, milk, or white), not colored to look real
they say you are what you eat...
wv: dipterm - someone who flunked midterms at cake school