National Cupcake Day
August 18, 2009 I'm told that today is National Cupcake Day. So, we could celebrate all that's good about these mini-cakes in paper wrappers, and look at beautiful examples of them made by talented people...
OR
We could take a little refresher course on why Cupcake Cakes are evil. After all, what better way to celebrate the cupcake than by protecting it from unholy perversions which must be stopped before cake art as we know it is ruined beyond all saving!?!
[patting down hair]
Yeah, I like Option B better, too.
There are two types of CCCs: your basic, all-slathered-together model:
(which Wreckerators are forever trying to make round shapes out of)And the "mosaic" style, wherein the cupcakes are each iced separately:
(Either a crying fish or an airplane turned sideways, dumping out the pilot's lunch.)Plus, cupcake cakes come with enough frosting to induce a diabetic coma merely by being within a ten-foot radius. Usually we're spared this sight because CCC photos are taken from directly overhead, but you can sort of see what I'm talking about here:
What's worse: that this is supposed to be a sombrero, or that there's even more icing underneath those paper wrappers, gluing them to the board?CCCs almost always result in shapes that baffle the imagination. If you wanted to put that in a positive light (which I don't) you could say they're like edible Rorschach tests (so I won't). And so one person's hamburger becomes another's highway o' caterpillars:
One person's flip-flops becomes another's necklace-wearing alien blobs with hives:
Or one person's [Note to John: what the heck is this? Find out and insert here] becomes another's Mardi Gras cactus mask:
Or maybe it's a flying pickle. [head tilt] Huh.
[throwing down spatula] "Meh, it's a football. Time for my break."Others write us little clues on the cake board:
I'm pretty sure "No Intelligent Life Found" means this is supposed to be a UFO, but that doesn't mean I can't appreciate the irony.
Duuude.
Related Wreckage: Cupcake Cakes: Always Wrecktastic. Always.
Reader Comments (169)
I am for sure going to order a chihuahua with a mustache in CCC form for my next party.
I think the crying fish/airplane one is upside down, and those circles are supposed to be bubbles.
And the flying pickle one looks rather like a cactus to me.
That first one looks like a clown's wig!! There's so much icing on that "sombrero" that my teeth hurt just looking at it!
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One would think that the small size of the cupcake would protect it from the monstrosities of being “wrecked”, but I guess no job is too small for a dedicated “wrecker”. “No room to misspell ‘Happy Birthday’ on these tiny cakes? Ha ha ha! I laugh at this challenge! I’ll just slather tons of icing all over the tops of all the cupcakes!”
Josh
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That's a sombrero???? I thought it was a traffic cone!
and the one after it looks like the old-school game Frogger. But caterpillar highway works too!
I'm going to come back and look at these CCCs when I'm not on narcotics to see if I can make any better sense of them. Something tells me I won't.
Well, happy cupcake day, world.
i'm really lovin' the "fish"'s facial expression. or, at least, i'm assuming that's his face.
[rolls eyes] ccc's are such posers: they're constantly trying to be something they're not. and what's worse is that they fail at it. over and over and over.
for example: they're famous for being lopsided circles. they just don't measure up to real cakes.
stupid posers.
Thanks for the clarification on Danny's "sombrero" ccc. I thought it was a vacum cleaner. Couldn't figure out why anybody would give that to a guy (or girl for that matter). Maybe he runs a cleaning service....
these are hilarious! Lily
Oh, hell no!!! That last one?!? Seriously?
CCC's are the spawn of the devil. Truly.
Thanks for the laughs. I think I'll go to my favorite cupcake bakery today to celebrate. This bakery doesn't even make CCC's. They are cupcake purists. You'd love them, Jen.
I like frosting. No, I love frosting. That being said, I do not like frosting on my fingers, and I just can't see a way to eat these cupcake cakes without getting frosting all over my fingers. Give me a piece of cake with that much frosting so it's on a plate and I can eat it with a fork.
You know, I think you could actually make a successful poodle CCC since they're meant to be all bumpy and curly round the outside anyway. Still way too much frosting and a horrible idea but at least it wouldn't have those horribly misshapen edges.
I laughed until I cried. Thanks!
The pickle cactus kinda looks like a space ship to me...with holes for the windows.
Or *head tilt* I have unresolved Freudian issues.
Oh dear im laughing so much it hurts....Cupcakes or Fairy Cakes as we used to say here in Great Britain are lovely but these wrecks are so BAD they are GOOD!
Horribly, horribly hilarious!
How do you mess up a football?! It looks like something a cow left behind.
Perhaps some of your best writing and captioning. But CCC lend themselves to ridicule more than the average wreck, you had an easy job today.
Poor Betsy did not even get candles that match ...
No ship Sherlock... If there was intelligent life in the bakery, these "things" would never have been created.
WV: nomsin... I'd like to nomsin cupcakes, but there's way too much frosting on, under, and around them.
The first one looks like a clown's wig to me.
The unknown one looks like flip-flops. These are so weird!!
At first I thought you were a bit dramatic, and then I looked at the CCCs (Ptooie!)...
What is the first one? A gay pride feather duster? I also see a seasick fish, a diabetic coma-inducing Christmas bell, a muddy stream of colorful fish, Jen's well-dressed aliens, The Mask or a moldy cow skull or a hideous moth, (I'm afraid to admit to what I thought the next one was, but I can say it is wildly inappropriate!) a section of the streets in Oz, and a pink poodle with a kickin' moustache but no legs.
I'm pretty sure I should be committed.
Well I thought National Cupcake Day (for the United States) was December 15th according to this website:
http://www.tfdutch.com/foodh.htm
Maybe today is National CCCC (CCC Catastrophe) Day...though with what we've seen here and in our local bakeries that is everyday!
@ The Curteous Chihuahua - I was here last week and on narcotics for minor surgery... Back this week without..
Trust me, it doesn't really matter whether you're on the good drugs or not. It still won't make any sense.
Is the first one some sort of native american headress? A warbonnet with with different colored feathers?
The poodle one really isn't that bad! I could see myself loving that cake... when I was four.
I love the pink "thing" with the pigtails & mustache, wonder what type of party that was for :)
my teeth hurts just looking at all those icings!!!
THanks! You have provided me with yet ANOTHER reason to hate stupid little puff-cut poodles!
I... can't... stop.... laughing!!!
I'm an icing lover, too, the old-fashioned sickly-sweet kind - so shoot me.
Anyway, is it just me or does it seem that the pink on the "flip flops" is airbrushed on? The colouring is nice and even, however how else is the white icing immediately underneath (there are two spots where the icing has been gouged) explained?
Your commentaries had me falling out of my chair laughing! I was diggin' those amorphous flip-flop-alien-thingies!
Oh, and um...
I kinda like the Poochie CCC.
*ducks for cover*
Those were flip flops? I thought they were slightly stylized dogs wearing necklaces. FLIP FLOPS? for a cake? NOOOOO.
"necklace wearing alien blob with hives??!!" ROTFL!!
WV: sworzi. I could've sworzis CCCs came from ze depths of Hell.
I thought the first one was a clown wig until I realized it was "supposed" to be a beach ball... should have stuck with clown wig, it's a pretty good interpretation of that!
The rest are pretty awful...
The last one is Poochie! I swear!
www.dreamfollow.com/lilypad/pictures/poochie.jpg
But I still think CCCs are evil, I promise.
I love frosting, but even I have my limits. These make my teeth hurt.
That poor poodle needs a wax job pretty bad. I don't care if you shouldnt wax a poodle, all the other dogs on the block are laughing!
Becky
wv: heari - "Heari, heari. I now declare all CCCs a crime against nture."
the pink one is flip flops !
I think that first one is the scalp of a clown.
-->That "football" looks like a giant turd at first glance.
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oh my....Those are supposed to be flip flops. Cute little flip flops with flowers on them. Lord help me if I ever see the feet they were meant for. Yikes. Wrecktastic!
Is that Poochie?!
OMG these are just so wrong on a multitude of levels! Hysterically funny and thanks for the daily laugh, but wrong. Just. Wrong.
wv: depadu - If something like this ended up at my house on my birthday, my husband would be in depadu-doo.
This is so funny, cause my daughter and I were going to make cupcakes today, but I promise, no cupcake cakes... just regular ol' chocolate frosted vanilla cupcakes :-)
that food ball looks like a turd with strings
I think the football could pass (ha, pun) as a baked potato! ;)
The flying pickle one reminds me of Texas. (Don't ask)
Is the sombrero one a pyramid of cupcakes, or one layer with a block of frosting on top?
Now, I do agree that these are ridiculous, and the first time I ever saw a "CCC" I was like wth?! BUUUUT I will say that I have eaten a cupcake from one of these CCC's. Half the icing from the other cupcakes ended up just sticking to the one in the middle, which was MINE.
and it was beautiful.
Don't hate.
Is it me or does the "UFO" on look like it says, "No Intelligent LIFF Found?"
At first glance I thought the sombrero looked like a bell.
What exactly is the last one supposed to be? Doll? Clown? AAHHHH!
Ugh. I had no idea the pink things were supposed to be flip-flops until you told me. Thanks for the clarification. When, oh, when will bakeries -- yes, even Wal-Mart bakeries, ban CCCs?