Thursday
Dec102009
Chappy Chanukah
December 10, 2009 Carly e-mailed yesterday to chastise my current completely-Christmas collection of carnage. She asked that I share some equal-opportunity Wreckage for my Jewish homies to "enjoy."
Now, I can only work with what I'm given, so please don't take my excessive postings of Santa and Frosty and Poo-dolph as any kind of religious bias. Believe me, I will snicker equally at Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, and even Winter Solstice Wreckage if given the chance.
Trouble is, those holidays just don't score many cakes. Still, let's see what we've got in the ol' Wrecks files, shall we?
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Ok, here's something: how about a little clashing blue icing, plastic flotsam, and an "ak"?:
I would make a crack about the KKK hiding out in "Hanukkak," but I think that might be construed as bad taste.Still, could be worse, right? Can you imagine what would happen if a Wreckerator tried to draw the menorah or Star of David or dreidel?
Nah, me neither. But that's ok: I have examples. Heehee!
Here we have some (Ninja) Stars of David:
Yep, that's the trouble with tracing. Still, if you think of this as a Jewish Ninja's celebration cake, then it's actually pretty darn cool. (See, they're off to the side because they're in motion. Eh?)(And yes, I double-checked: it's professional.)
Unfortunately I couldn't find a good dreidel Wreck - but I think this "Menorah" more than makes up for it:
Time to light the alien ribcage!So to all my Jewish readers: Happy Hanukkah! Please send more Wrecks.
And in the meantime, I think people of all nations and beliefs can come together, get along, and enjoy spectacles like this:
"Who's laughing now, fat boy?!?"- Related Wreckage: Goy Gaffes
Reader Comments (128)
The Sandra Lee Kwaanza cake is not to be missed.
http://www.avclub.com/articles/this-cake-will-make-your-eyeballs-burst-into-flame,25176/
I like the characterization of it as "an edible hate crime," except wouldn't it have to be edible for that to be accurate? Acorns, canned apple pie filling, and canned frosting? I'm not eating that, are you?
I also like the way Sandra cut giant holes in the cake to make room for the huge candles.
Hmm...I have a coworker who I think would LOVE the ninja nursery! I know I would, if I had kids. And the concept of a Jewish ninja has me in stitches! "Throwing stars of David!" LOVE!
I really, really needed the laugh this evening. This blog is a lifesaver.
And I, for one, am afraid to find out what a Wrecked Yule log would look like. There must be one out there somewhere. *shudder* Talk about poo...
Shouldn't this be a new category in itself, "Oy So Ugly"?
@ Gary-- I guess you could say, then, that Sandra Lee made a "technically edible" hate crime cake. A lot of things qualify under this category that I don't want to eat. As for the stuff I've seen at this site, that one is somewhere near the top of the list.
You'd have to be pretty cocky to pass that menorah cake off as professional. I think he was wanging it.
WV: priesse. Priesse don't stop posting wrecks, Jen!
The ninja nursery is totally awesome!
I may not be the first to say it, but the blue-poo cupcakes look like Santa and his reindeer are cuddling up in Snuggies!
Oh my gosh, one of my friends is a ninja; I passed this along so that he and his g/f can use this as an idea if they ever have a boy!
Rene
To all those that posted the Sanda Lee 'semi 'homemade'' cakes I have to say thanks so much for reminding me why I'v never liked watching her show. Everyone watch GOOD EATS INSTEAD!!!!! Alton Brown actually teaches you how to cook!
I just can't Believe why she even has a tv show at all. Nothing she does at all makes anything good. All she really does is show lazy cooks how to be lazier.
Let me run it down for you
1: She makes a 'homemade' decorated cake by buying a 1/4 sheet cake from the store and calls stacking a one layer round cake and a bunch of cupcakes on top decorating or making something homemade. You can do the same thing with 2 cake mixes and canned frosting(homemade frosting is easy too) better AND CHEAPER TOO!
2: Her Hanukah and Kwanzaa cakes are worse. They are even higher on the level of lazy when you consider how easy it is to make an angel food cake from scratch is. Go to the Food Network and Look up Alton Brown's Episode of Good Eats, let them eat foam, and you will see what i mean. Even then a boxed angel food cake mix is even less effort and it will turn out better too. Now is you want to make a Hanukah cake like her's instead of the non-kosher Marshmallows place a Kosher Star Of David Sugar Cookie over the hole instead!
3: Almost nothing I've seen her do helps people learn how to make anything themselves as almost 90% of her recipes, and I use that term very lightly, uses pre-made(and therefore expensive) items to make them. What she does is only one step away from serving McDonald's hamburgers for Thanksgiving.
ALienRibcage- SNORT!!
And Ninja Nursey!!! ROCKIN'!!!
word verification: unryl, as in, it is Un-freking-RYL what you did for hat baby's nursery! Cake Skillz translate into walls too? No freaking way!
awwww! that ninja nursery is too too cute!!
I knew we were missing something when we did our son's star nursery a few years back - http://www.krismom.com/babybunny/room.html
Santas and reindeer in paper wasp nests?
lol! alien ribcage!
I love the omnipresence of the Snuggie this holiday season. If those cupcakes are any indication, Santa and his reindeer will be wearing them on their annual run. Now he'll be able to call the Missus and check the GPS app on his iPhone without being encumbered by the confines of a traditional blanket.
Also, when my ninja-loving husband sees those nursery pics, you better believe he's going to try to convince me to do the same for our 3-month-old son (even though he knows I find pirates to be far superior).
Verification word: losest
As in, "That ninja-star Hanukkah cake is so tragic, it isn't a loser; it's a losest."
Santa and reindeer in Snuggies! I love it!
The 'alien ribcage' looks more like... how can I make this 'G' rated, a group personal massager.
Alien ribcage looks more like an unkosher lobster...
Exactly WHAT color is that horrible goo that is swallowing up the Santas and the strangely Pluto-looking reindeer?
"Here, kid, have a nightmare"
And "alien ribcage".. ::snrk::
Holiday yumminess!
--Blondie's mom
That nursery is wonderful! Wouldn't mind having it as my own room. :-D
That ninja nursery is SO COOL!
It made my girlfriend want to have a baby boy (apparently).
"Hath not a Jew eyes?" Whoever perpetrated the alien ribcage apparently doesn't think so. . . . O_o
Are there Jewish ninjas in the Mossad, though? Because, if not, the concept is so awesome that they need to get some. Now.
I now need to own an alien rib cage menorah.
Those reindeer toppers at the bottom are adorable...but it actually took me a while to realize that the "alien ribcage" was a menorah. Let's see what you guys can come up with for Kwanzaa! (:
My five year-old says that cupcake at the end looks like Santa getting sucked into a whirlpool.
I had all but forgotten our "Happy Hanukkak" cookie cake from last year until I saw it here! I don't normally buy anything with blue icing, but I couldn't get a good cell phone pic of it without taking the top off, so we had it with our 3rd night Chinese. :)
Happy Hanukkak! And watch those menorahs... mine drips wax, and the candles are fully upright!
Shannan
Wow...is all I can say LOL
WOW! I'm Jewish, and all I can say is...
WE LIGHT THE ALIEN RIBCAGE TOO! =]
Okay then.... I'm totally into this....
Signed,
Jewish Ninja (Oh, yeah, you read that right. I'm a NINJA! Booya!)