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.
Now, don't you have a photo you want to send me? ;)
January 24, 2009 
If you guessed "time to learn the difference between an old-style telephone and a clock", then you are absolutely correct!
I would have also accepted "Time to ban CCCs" or "Time to train a wreckerator". Any other suggestions?
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Reader Comments (111)
Ha, that's hilarious! I love how frilly it is!
To me it looks like Tickety Tock and Magenta (both form Blue's Clues) had a love child.
Wrong on so many levels.
That cake looks like the back of a sheep's head...a sheep that happens to be wearing a pink sweat band and have a pink clock inserted into it's skull...
Took me a while, at first I thought it was supposed to be Magenta from Blue's Clues, then Tickety Tock in the middle. Clearly I was as mistaken as this "decorator".
OK, but seriously, WTH is that? Usually I can kinda get it, but I feel like Steve Martin saying "What in the hell is that thing?"
I'm not sure what it says about me, but I thought it was a "biological clock", based on the color and the 8th grade rendering of the female reproductive system.
could it also be time to put down the pink air brush? This is pretty random.
It looks like a naked lady with a phone in her stomach. EEEEEEEEEEEEEEWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!!!
What? I am so confused. There has to be an explanation from this one. Get this wreckorater on the phone... I mean clock... I mean phone...
SO CONFUSED!!!!!
I love analog clocks...not this one though!
Spent too much time trying to figure out why the phone had 12 numbers on it...
Time to ban spray caking!
Phone? Clock? Maybe it's one of those space-saving combo countertop dealies.
wv: becomed
I becomed confuse when I seen this wreck.
That slays me.
My first thought: 'a rotary phone - no, wait, not with 12 digits and hands.....but I'm sure that's a telephone reference....STOP you moron, it's Cake Wrecks, do not think, you'll only get a headache.'
The first thing I thought of when I saw this cake was, unfortunately, "Is that a biological clock cake??"
If you don't see it I won't go into any more detail then that....
Is it 3:00 or 12:15?
What the heck was it supposed to be? It may have started with a great idea or design but I think it got lost somewhere in the process of adding way too much frosting. (Don't get me wrong, I love frosting, but sometimes there is such a thing as too much.)
My first thought was a telephone gone bad.
I was watching Ace of Cakes the other night and some of the girls were doing a wedding cake for a friend and wanted cupcakes. Duff refused to do cupcakes. Now there's a smart decorator lol
wv: finglyp "You can take a fyinglp if you think this is a good CCC"
Huh. Well, we don't know the occasion, right? Could be someone who got a call at exactly three o'clock that they made it into the college of their choice or are going to Africa on Safari or getting dumped by their significant other...
Angie (from over at www.HalfAssedKitchen.com)
Wow, and I thought the jump drive was depressing!
It sort of reminded me of that clock character in Beauty and the Beast. Think his name was Cogsworth.
How 'bout "Time to put a clock face in a poodle's head"? :P
WV: crings - what I did when I saw this monstrosity.
Ugh...
It looks like a poodle clock, with all the swirls.
My 3 yr. old said it looks like a clock on a people's tummy. :)
Heh heh heh...
Shall we call you on this phone?
What a lovely ombre effect it has going on. So subtle...so innocent and unassuming...
And perhaps someone was channeling Salvador Dali when applying the clock?
What a bold and avant-garde take on your average, everyday clock/phone cake, no?
Time to go to a different bakery!
it seems clear to me that this is, in fact, the well-referenced "biological clock"....the pink, the weird curving bar across the top...sure, its not anatomically correct in any way, but when has that ever stopped a wreckerator?!
We need a new tag - "what is it?"
Maybe they are on to something...if we ever start making rotary dial phones again, it will save so much time dialing 9-11! Just think...
Time to scream and run?
UMMM....YEAH.....sorry, I just have NO words for that one ***shakes head and rolls eyes ****
Kids these days.
tool time! hahah
Wow...I thought the cake itself was funny enough; but then I started reading the comments and just about wet myself from laughing! Personally I thought it looked like one of two things: the middle of a person's body with a clock stuck in it (perhaps some sort of "it's time to pop out that baby" kind of thing), or a fanciful "menopause cake" channeling the reproductive system.
Been reading here for a while and can always count on a good laugh. Keep those crazy cakes coming! I'm no expert on cakes or anything, but this has to be one of the funniest blogs I read with any regularity.
Um..speechless. Again.
~Amy B.
If you're really 123 years old, then maybe it doesn't matter quite so much.
Cheers
Sweet Jesus!
You mean it's not Chico time?
Am I the only one that thinks that pink strip across the top looks like when they show "cast=ff" blood from a murder on CSI?
the number dial looks like a pink record (with numbers on it for some reason).
the...ah...phone loos like...i'm not quite sure, actually. once i read that it was an old fashioned phone, i could totally see it when i squinted my eyes. but then i looked at the pink record and again became confused. you see, i have one of those old-fashioned phones. and last i checked, they don't have hour and minute hands. at all.
even for a CCC, it's fugly
I'm totally going with the Blues Clues folks on this one but...wow. That is BAD. And a bit head scratching.
Ring ring. Ring Ring.
"Hello?"
"Hi! It's your ovaries here. We're just calling to say YOU'RE THIRTY."
"Uh. Okay. But I thought you guys went Tick Tock."
"Hybrid technology. It's the future."
"To me it looks like Tickety Tock and Magenta (both form Blue's Clues) had a love child."
Thanks for the mental image. Lesbian dog-on-clock sex.
Lovely.
Actually, that's a poodle mix. It's a clockapoo. My grandma had one. Had to be fed at 6:00 on the dot.
April said...
[i]Actually, that's a poodle mix. It's a clockapoo. My grandma had one. Had to be fed at 6:00 on the dot.[/i]
Clockapoo!!?? LOL!
LOL at the pic... This may be Devil's Advocate here, but I think it's a good attempt. :D
Goodness! They could have put a face on that thing and called it santa!
I totaly didn't see it as a phone...too literal, I guess. This comes under "What were they thinking????" I'm missing the concept here.
I thought it was a "biological clock", based on the color and the 8th grade rendering of the female reproductive system.
I'm in hysterics here at the number of people who interpreted it this way. I'd love to know what the decorator was aiming at.
My vote is that this is the telephone that rings at 3 a.m. in the White House. Obama will make Clinton answer it.
Ahahahaha.
Amazing.