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 7, 2009 A "professionally made" giraffe cake:
I kid you not.
Kelly B. paid a whopping $4 for this, folks, JUST so she could share it with all of you. Now that's loyalty.
I find it fascinating that someone can know how to spell "giraffe" without having any idea what one looks like, don't you?
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Reader Comments (124)
i love the fact that the cake maker had to actually write 'giraffe' so that we (the public) know what the heck that was!
Having to label your cake is a sure sign you have a Wreck on your hands.
Is that supposed to be two cupcakes? So is this a horrible CCC gone even more wrong than possible?
I...I...I am lost for words. Oh, wait, I found some...
WHAT THE HELL???
In general, if you have to label it, it isn't working, right?
Damn, I thought it was a smiley dumbell for all us New Years dieters. We need all the help we can get you know. Now my stupid iron dumbells look lacking. I'm disappointed.
Ew.
I think if you have to announce what it is, then it's a dead give away that it does NOT resemble it intention. Just like cars, the only cars with HONDA written across the windshield are the cars that resemble nothing close to a honda...
This one gets politeness marks in my book for having the courtesy to tell us what exactly it is. But who knows..maybe this cake decorator was a disaffected abstract art student whose globs just didn't match the greatness of Pollock or somebody else - and so the caption was to let our uncouth eyes know the motivation behind this cakey masterpiece.
OMG! WTF? Well, there's four bucks Kelly will never get back ...
That is the work of a "professional" cake decorator? No way!
You know it's not good when the "decorator" has to write out what it is because they know no one will know what it is!
Try finding this animal at the zoo. Think of all the little kids who will think a giraffe is two bright yellow and black blobs. This is why our kids can't get into college!
kidding, of course. It is funny!
Yellow Dalmatian, maybe. MAYBE. But no giraffe. heehee
It's kinda cute...
At least the wreckorator didn't try to include the blue-black tongue.
seems there is more icing than cake, is that possible? Great find, ridiculous cake. Someone needs to be fired.
It should say "giraffe" hee, hee.
Honestly, I'm surprised they spelled it correctly.
WV: faveness - Cake Wrecks is a faveness of mine.
It looks more like a long necked yellow ladybug then it does a giraffe, is this a new hybrid we have'nt heard of before?
I teach kinders that could do a better job than that wreck.
Oh, but he looks kind of wobbly and cute. And...tasty?
There has been a plethora of cakes on cakeboards bearing a title. My thought is, if you have to explain what it is, it's not good enough to sell.
Maybe the idea was to make a child's cake that the child could pass off as his or her own creation? Like, a 2-year old child.
That is a giraffe? Then I am Madonna.
Really.
Wow.
Does it have five legs or four with a really long tail? It kind of looks like one (maybe the tail) is waving? But it can't be the tail, right, its coming out the front...
I think I would pay $4 to have a good laugh. Money well spent. Thanks for the chuckle.
You know, the giraffe is kinda cute, in an ugly kind of way.
More micorbiology...Mitosis: reproduction through cell division.
Or it could be "budding". It's anything but a giraffe.
wvotd exhakine: The amino acid lacking in the brains of people who decorate cakes badly. The missing amino acid causes a delivery flaw in the synapes the carry the image the eye sees to the tasteful/tacky dicphering part of the brain. This results in a skewed perception of what looks accurate and what is acutally presented.
I felt more like the decorator should have written "Ceci n'est pas une girafe."
I LOVE IT.
I have to ask Kelly B. if she felt at all embarrassed to purchase this?
I can just picture the cashier looking at me thinking "You are going to pay money for this??" Or maybe the cashier and the baker have both gone to the acid-trip zoo together.
Is it a Wal-Mart Smiley face giraffe? Its it a cup cake giraffe?
If you have write what it is on the cardboard next to it, maybe you should try again.
Just because you got paid to do it, doesn't make you a professional!!! GAH!
We really need to get some professional accreditation standards in this field so this doesn't happen to some poor unsuspecting parent! LOL
level 1: Master Cake Artist (leave the masterpieces to these guys!)
level 2: Advanced Cake Decorator (can handle most orders)
level 3: Intermediate Cake Decorator (basic grocery-store type cakes will at least resemble what it should be)
level 4: Basic Cake Decorator (your cake will look home made, but appealing)
level 5: Cake Wrecker! (order with tongue placed firmly in cheek; for the humour value only! Nobody is responsible for the icing to cake ratio with these people, and CCCs are best left to this group as well!)
I have a feeling that this cake design is based on a child's drawing. Which is actually a really cute idea.
MAD Magazine ran a piece decades ago in which children's drawings were rendered as three-dimensional objects. The rocket ship was pretty cool.
I like it.
Just. So. Sad.
Let me tell you what this really is. It's a smiling lollipop on a tiny planet that has four leafless trees and a dead one growing on the other side.
Ignore the giraffe label!
It looks like he's waving to us with his fifth leg.
That's not a giraffe. It's a lady bug holding a lollipop!
it looks like two bumblebees mating. :)
I was surprised the spelled giraffe correctly!
I had to comment because my WF is "abled". As in when Kelly B. bought this cake she en-abled the cake wreckecorator. Now there will be more of these bad cakes on the bakery shelf because the wreckecorator thinks they are good enough to sell!
I'm generally in favor of "Take Your Child To Work" days, but letting them _do_ the work?
My favorite wrecks tend to be the ones that have their description written directly on the cake. I want to walk into a bakery one day and glance at something that makes me think "WTF is that???" and then when I get closer, I'll be able to READ what it is. Awesome.
Oh no, it has brain tumors! Poor giraffe =( I'm glad she bought him now because he may not have long left...
Goofiest giraffe I've ever seen.
~Amy B.
"Oh, wook, Mumma! That cake wooks ike a gaffe!"
"Yes, my dearest...it certainly does."
wv: "probbyxi": what a two-year-old answers when someone asks him/her what dog poop might taste like.
Okaaaaaaaaayyyy...so just to show you how my mind works...and probably frighten the life out of you...while I was watching the Rose Parade all I could think of was that next year, there should be a CW float. I was picturing the ever hilarious monkey...now I think he should also be joined by the "Giraffe". Can't you just see them in all their petal/seed/grass covered glory?
I...kind of like it. Its a wreck, surely, but I might buy it anyway.
At least it was only $4.
Maybe a giraffe from another planet.
As a rainy-day activity decorated by a preschooler, I would buy it.
As a "professional" cake . . . they've gotta be kidding.
but it is so incredibly cute!