Tuesday
Mar312009
Back to Basics
March 31, 2009 Sometimes we look so hard for Wrecks we fail to see the forest for the trees, as it were. After all, it doesn't take crazy sculpted nonsense or illiterate scrawlings to make a Wreck; sometimes all you need is a healthy dose of what I like to call "the fugly":
For a baby shower, no less.
Green streaked nastiness AND a cupcake cake. Wow, Heather, you scored big.
Die, tie-dye! Die!
(You know, I bet a lot of you are going to like this one. Well, rest assured I won't be calling you a tasteless hippie if you do; I'll just give you one of my patented sardonic looks. Like this: [sardonic look]. Crippling, isn't it?)
(You know, I bet a lot of you are going to like this one. Well, rest assured I won't be calling you a tasteless hippie if you do; I'll just give you one of my patented sardonic looks. Like this: [sardonic look]. Crippling, isn't it?)
I actually made something like this once. Of course, it was with finger paints, and I was three at the time, but still...
Amanda, Anne M., Elizabeth C., & Miranda C., I'm sure these cakes are all beautiful on the inside.
Ok, that's a lie. But I'd still eat them.
Reader Comments (152)
I love your site! I hope you don't mind that I linked to it!
I like the idea of a tie-dye but not the execution. I'm going to see if I can find it done better.
tie dye cakes are sooo easy to do!! And if done right they can come out so cute.
word verification: sumlan: "These cakes are only considered pretty in sumlan far far away."
Yeah, I have to admit I like the tie-dye cake.
Are those things around the edge of the first cake supposed to be little babies/children? Or baby heads? That's what they look like to me, and if true, I don't think it was a good idea...
wv is flatomb. Seems quite fitting with the Over the Hill cake.
They are all gross. But I am wondering... What is the thought process that leads to MAKING a tie-dye cake???
first cake - baby cake? looks like what you would find inside the baby's diaper! eek!
I believe the first words out of my mouth at the sight of the first cake was "WHA?" It made me speechless. That never happens! Never!
The tie-dyed one was disturbing to me because I wanted to like it but couldn't. I agree with Maria, I like the idea of the cake.
I so love this site, just so you know.
I have seen a good tie dye cake. However, that has to be the UGLIEST cake I have ever seen!!
Actually, yes, I do like the tie-dye one!! :-D
Love your blog! It's nice to know that even good cooks can have a bad cake day!
A fellow blogger,
Pat
You should do a post dedicated to well-done tie-dye....of which that is not one.
that last one had a very slight monet quality to it, don't you think? i mean, i didn't hate it...
Sugarapple had it, the tie-dye cake is actually spin art. It's not totally horrible compared to the other two!
My favorite WV ever yet: wabizit Frequently said by those viewing cake wrecks? "Hey, wabizit that cake is supposed to look like?"
My husband liked the tie-dye cake, and I thought it was ugly. I doubt he'll be crippled by your sardonic looks, though, I've given him enough of those that he's a bit immune to it now.
All I can say about those cakes is that OH man, some people really really REALLY should not be decorating cakes. It's just sad.
The tie dye cake reminds me of those spin art pictures that kids used to be able to make at fairs etc. The paper spins around and you squirt paint at it.
I actually saw that "over the hill" cake design in the special order book at my local bakery tonight.
It's not a great design to begin with, but damn. Also, it's meant for a sheet cake, not a CCC.
Those ARE fugly! I literally made the D-: face at the first one! Or maybe more like :-P only grossed out instead of playful.
The tie-dye cake is a bit of an eye sore, but at the same time it looks damned delicious.
My comment is so low it probably wont reach anyone.. But as a cake decorator that works primarily with Bakery Crafts and Decopac designs.... Sad to say, that Grim Reaper design is right on mark. Thats the way the demo page in the cake book looks. Or, at least, thats the way last years design looked. The new version is somewhat better.
the Tie-Dye looks a little like a Spin-Art cake! :)
I like the tie-dye one because it looks like an explosion and explosions are cool. Mmm... cake explosiony goodness...
No, No! Not Tie Dye! Spin Art!
But still seriously wreckitudinous.
Modern art!
Yeah. So I think the idea of the a tie dye cake could be cute. But I feel like it requires limiting yourself to 2 colors and leaving copious amounts of plain vanilla buttercream so that the streaking/"tie dyeing" comes out like on a real shirt rather than like a hallucination of epic proportions.
Ok, I like the tie dye one. I'd be happy with one like that for my b'day. But they call me a hippie at work anyway.
My five year old son looked at the last one and said, "There's shrimp on it!" Looking at it more closely, he added " and lettuce and mashed up beans!"
After he pointed that out, I did notice a Swanson TV dinner vibe about it.
The first cake is obviously the post apocalyptic sky. The moon is sad because she is facing a celestial lifetime with her nuclear winter lover earth. The white blobs are fading mushroom clouds. It is a deep, philosophical commentary on the lonliness and despair of coming into the world in these times. Very appropriate for a baby shower cake. Welcome to the world, baby!
in defense of two of those cakes, it's very hard to get a good smooth "fade" color on frosting when you're using frosting dye because your bosses are too cheap to get an airbrush machine. (can you tell it is my woe?)
I can take the sardonic look like a man (even though I'm female) I actually like the tie dye cake.
Yep, I like the tye dye cake. Sorry!
I do love the "tie die" one! But it reminds me more of those kids paint spinners.
Spin art..remember that? You put the piece of paper in the machine, spin it and pour paint on it. That's the tie dyed cake.
They're all examples of bad decorating compounded by more bad decorating.
wv. auddise. I have a friend who lives in Auddise...it's on the only #1 highway to Windsor.
I was thinking spin art too. decorators do have turntables...
Even the little moon on the 'baby shower' cake seems to be begging to be saved!!!
That's not a tie-dye cake - its a spin-art cake!!
That tie dye cake is making my eyes hurt. Make it go away! Wait, what's this? A red x in the corner? :-D
I'm glad there will be new posts. That first one just about made me gag.
I have to say I actually like the tie-dye cake. :)
-Angie
O Cake wrecks, I love you.
I must say, though, the colors on the baby shower cake almost match what comes out of the diaper in the first few months of life...
i think i just overdosed on food coloring by looking at those cakes. *blech*.
I'd like the tie dye cake if the base trim was the same nice blue/teal as the upper trim...
I mean, it actually doesn't look like a horrid representation of tie dye and didn't come out a sludgy brown mess... why the radioactive base trim though? Bit too loud and OTT there.
Re: the last cake.
There' actually a perfectly valid reason to make a cake orange, black, yellow and green: the Oregon State/University of Oregon football game (aka The Civil War).
It's badly done (and a CCC), but the color concept isn't a total wreck.
i can't imagine a tasteful tie-dyed cake, but at least it took some obvious skill.
i'm pretty sure this will be my death: to have a heart attack while laughing at this blog.
I like the tie-dye cake, it'd be fun for a kids party or something similar. i mean, can you imagine how hard it was to freakin make that!?
do you guys seriously believe that first one is a baby cake? Does anyone besides my sister and me see the skulls lining the sides? and I'm with wendy, those white bits are certainly left over from when some one pulled the bats off the cake. I mean really, pumpkins moon, bat bits, and skulls. For a baby shower?!?! either some wreckporter wanted extra wreckie credit, or some baker needs a hearing aid. Admittedly, the moon could be scarier, and the pumpkins need some work, but they're not very good flowers either. Sitll a terrible cake though. I love your blog!
ha ha!!!! On the second one i couldn't quite work out what the word says after "lies". does anyone know?
The tie dyed one looks great! I love it! The first cake makes me vomit a little.
Love the tie-die, reminds me of the 60s, I'd buy it in a heartbeat..
So the first one is for a baby shower. Rosemary's Baby, perchance?
I first thought the next one said, "Here lies Sarah & Heather's Yorkie," but that couldn't possibly be right, even here. "Here lies Sarah & Heather's Youth" seems a kind sentiment by comparison. Gets ya right here (points to solar plexus).
Now to ponder why Sarah & Heather's youth required three graves...
The tie-dye cake....nah, its a mess. Whats to like? xx