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January 5, 2010 
I bet she doesn't look a day over seven, Michelle S.
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UPDATE: No, she wasn't a leap year baby. They just forgot the zero. ;)
January 5, 2010 
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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.
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I bet Mom got a smile out of that one. Hilarious!
This would only work if "Mom" was a leap year baby and this were actually her 32nd birthday! (Eight leap years x 4.) I could see my nine-year-old daughter telling daddy to get a cake like this . . . !
WV: tersa. No, it's not her tersa birthda, it's her 8th birthday!
I think I like the posts the best that you don't even have to put any commentary. Not that I don't LOVE your commentary...but it's totally awesome when the cake can speak for itself...
Why would you name your child "mom"... that is the only legit reason I can think of for this cake.
This cake fails like http://www.failgif.com/2010/01/ice-jumper-fail.html" rel="nofollow">this ice jumper
Hahahahahah!!!!! That is classic!!
They grow so fast! ;)
Perhaps she was born on February 29th and is now 32 years old...
Hmm, perhaps the 8 year old gets her mom a cake each year as a thank you for going through that whole labor thing? ;-)
I try to give the cake decorators the benefit of the doubt on most of these. They can't all be artistically gifted and all that. And spelling is a skill not all people have. But if the decorator speaks English or anyone in the bakery speaks English, this is ridiculous.
I'm wondering if that's for a leap year baby. She'd be what, 32? Young to have a cake purchased solely by her children but you never know.
I can not wait to hear the "stories" that COULD be why this wreckerator sits in the dock.
[I can not think of ANY]but there MUST be at least one.
Mocking
wv-videraf
Latin for liferaft?
Maybe she's a Feb. 29 baby and she's really 32?
I'll be honest - my first thought, other than "80th?" was that she was born on February 29th. I know a couple of folks who were, and they almost always receive stuff like this. One likes it, one doesn't :)
Babies having babies. Too bad she can't have any Champagne with that cake.
Maybe it was supposed to say, "Happy 8th, Birthday Mom!" for her eighth baby, born on her birthday?
WV: evest; not quite the opposite of invest - as in "I would like to evest in these bakeries, please."
HE he, that is amazing!
Maybe she was born on Leap Year... -L.
Well, coming from Baltimore, this could be very accurate...
Maybe she was born on Feb 29th?
No worries, Jen. You've still got the funny. :)
If she was born on leap year, she would have her 8th birthday in her 32nd year... take it from me, I know, I am 25 but I have only had 6 real birthdays!
if not tho... that is pretty sad...
~Malisa T.
She could have a February 29th birthday, in which case she would have turned 32 in 2008.
Maybe they just named their daughter "Mom." It could happen.
Hee! I think maybe they forgot a zero.
How lucky are they! My mom is totally old, she's 9!
-Cris
A bit young for motherhood...
*facepalm*
maybe mom's a 36-year-old leap year baby?
Mom must have been a leap year baby. Hey, does this mean that movie has to pay you now?
Maybe she was born on Leap Day, and she's actually around 32 years, but has only celebrated it 8 times.
What? It could happen!
Maybe she was a leap year baby born on Feb. 29.
Man, I wonder what the intention was. "Happy 80th Birthday, Mom"? "Hapy 8th Birthday, LOVE, Mom"? Hmm...
So many options.....is she a leap year baby? Is it supposed to be 80th? How will we ever know?!?! :D Made me grin this morning, though, so that's all that matters!!! ;)
And just look, Look how smooth her skin is! LOL
My mom turned 15 a couple of years ago.
my, my, but don't they start young these days?!
and to think, i was still playing with barbies when i was 8.
lovely cake with lovely pink script though!
Omg! I was just reading today’s Cakewrecks at my desk and I laughed and farted.
Guess the bean, chorizo and egg taco didn’t help.
Let's hope "Mom" is a leap year baby and she is really 32 ...
In some cursive writing styles "n" and "m" have an extra "bump" at the beginning, meaning it says "Mon".
Although, I think we've had more than 8 mondays...
(Unless it's short for Monique or something, but, nah.)
I had to hide my eyes before I could stop laughing. Just wow.
I knew kids were having babies younger and younger these days, but this is a little ridiculous....
Could this have been a leap year birthday? Or perhaps one of those situations where someone overcomes a health issue, and considers the day they recovered their "new birthday"?
Leap year birthday? My father-in-law has only had 17 birthdays.
Leap year baby?
They're starting younger and younger these days. Babies having babies... it's a shame. ;)
Well, if her mom is Tootie from Drawn together, it would be a possibility.
Vanna, I'd like to buy an O??
WV: repologi : these decorators definitely owe them a repologi
Maybe I'm an eternal optimist, but maybe Mom's birthday is leap day?
Maybe?
Word Verification: crocke. syn to "malarky" describing something that is a total load of bull.
nice.... biological possibilities asside, I wonder if this really was an error, or just an inside joke of the families, the way way my grandpa would turn the digits around, when he was 80, he would go around sayin' he was 8...
That either really funny or sort of adorable :)
Funny because what wreckerator thought this was an accurate number.
Adorable cause well lets be honest kids have no idea about age. Can't you just imagine a little kid going to order the cake? "And how old is your Mom?" "Really old...like 8"