Friday
Jan272012
BULL'S-EYE!
January 27, 2012 Spider-Man:
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NAILED IT.
Scooby Doo:
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NAILED IT.
Optimus Prime:
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THAT'LL BE $45.99, PLEASE.
Thanks to Heidi C., Matthew B., & Stephanie S. for helping us see double.
January 27, 2012 
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What's a Wreck?
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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The first cake is Spidey's half-brother. His mom had a fling with a smurf and....
Dear Scooby Wreckerator:
Get with the program. They are Scooby Snacks, not "Scooby Doo" ones.
Hmph.
Scooby's gone rabid on us? And praytell, WTF is that last thing really?????? It ain't Optimus Prime, that's for sure.
Step one: Look at first picture
Step two: put down coffee and remove sharp objects from reach
Step three: look at second picture
Step four: *Headdesk*
Spiderman appears to be in the most painful yoga pose ever.
Poor Spidey! He's lost both of his feet in a tragic fight with Doc Ock, and now has spindly peg legs.
Optimus Prime is looking pretty cheery there, though. :)
Scooby......best laugh of the week!!!
Wow, these make my clearly non-professional beige Vader cake look pretty good.
Ugh... "Scooby Do" reminds me of that Russian scientist who did experiments involving severed dogs' heads. I really hope that cake wasn't for a kid!
That third one looks like a smurf in a fez. "I shall do a dance in my fuzzy boots for you, Smurfette!"
Spidey appears to have lost his neck and his head just oozes over his shoulders like Jabba the Hutt!
I...But...It....That is not Optimus Prime. It can't be. The colors are wrong, the shapes are wrong, it... I wouldn't have the vaguest idea what to make of that cake if not for the Optimus Prime picture you posted with it. If it was specifically requested as an Optimus Prime cake, and the customer got that...
I'm just speechless.
Yes indeedy, Optimus Prime is definitely looking a bit chipper there.
Wow is spider mans face a bit chunky? Best laugh I've had all week
And these people get PAID for those?? D:
I'm having Pictionary flashbacks. I always "see" the ideal picture in my head and think, "yeah, I can draw a full scale replica of Neuschwanstein Castle in 30 seconds," but I always end up with something that looks like "Deflated Bouncy Castle of Despair" on paper. Knowing this, I DIDN'T go into cake decorating. From now on, BEFORE I order a cake, I'm going to make the baker draw a Pictionary clue. At least then I'll know whether I should expect "Optimus Prime" or "Constipated Smurf in a Fez."
I think Scooby looks pretty good for someone who's 307 in dog years.
Mmmmm. This post makes me hungry for some cake with Spider-Toad, Scooby-Ferret, and ... a huge blue beetle wearing an Albanian felt hat?
@ Janice.....I was thinking a happy cat in a fez. lol
Spiderman Yoga
Scooby snack O.D.-clearly
Autobot? Think not!
I wonder how many of the customers think they are getting Punk'd when they go to pick up their cakes......
The third one looks likes the "Oh Eee Oh" guys in Wizard of Oz.
The Spiderman one almost works...Scooby not so much. But...but...but what have they done to my Optimus Prime?!?! *crying*
@Sharyn--"Deflated Bouncy Castle of Despair", you've been looking at MY picture drawing! ROFL
Scooby Doo? More Like Scooby Don't.....or Scooby Can't..........
Apparently "does whatever a spider can" now includes having a cephalothorax and twice the usual number of knees. Or maybe somebody knocked him down with a broom and smushed him.
Okay all I got when I saw the Optimus one was that the hat looked like some Russian siberian type hat. But I love constipated smurf in a fez too. I feel so sorry for these people. Have you all thought of what you would do if you got one of these? I'd refuse to pay and go make my kid a cake.
Missed Marks are my favorites!!! They're so sad! But also funny! ^_^
I have always believed that the guards at the castle of the Witch sing 'O-re-o', probably because they're marching to the snack room. Product placement is not a modern concept, after all. Back to cakes...
Wreck 1: Initially, I thought the word at the bottom of Spidey's cake was 'Fappy'. Yes, I know 'Cake Wrecks.com' is covering the left side of the 'H', but it still skewed the interpretation for me, especially after that other Spidey cake from a few days back.
Wreck 2: Early drafts of 'Scooby Doo' had a chihuahua in the role, but it just didn't work for some reason. Though it could have been an advertiser's dream -- test audiences developed an intense and inexplicable craving for 'Mexican' fast food.
Wreck 3: Somehow, Optimus Prime is a lot less imposing as a hypoxic cat in a knitted cap. We'll just kind of overlook the whole 'upside down' thing. (You can tell by the shadow that the photo is oriented correctly.)
It's a little disconcerting to see Scooby growling and Optimus Prime smiling. Maybe Optimus is smiling because he's the one who twisted Smurf-Spidey into a knot? And Scooby was trying to protect SS, but got his head ripped off, instead?
That was a little dark. Sorry. Time to eat some Scooby Snacks....
I came home from kindergarten one day and my mother had baked a cake. I had no idea what was on top of it until she told me she had tried to draw Popeye on it for me.
Love the Picasso-esque Scooby-Doo!
That's definitely a Scooby don't.
What happened to Spiderman's feet! That wreckerator is clearly a sick human being.
That star-tip Optimus Prime looks real 1970s style...everytime I see someone star-tipping a cake into oblivion I think of a kid's birthday party in a room with shag carpet, dark wood-paneling and paintings of matadors.
Also, I think the pic of the last cake might be upside down...not that it makes it any better to turn it right side up.
I made a "Perry the Platypus" face cake for my son's birthday. It was... recognizable. But I wouldn't have charged for it!
Those cakes were a waste of buttercream. Fo' shizzle.
For one thing,Optimus Prime seems to be upside down in the cake version. Not that it helps much. But really, conisdering the baker wasn't using a shaped pan (at least not the right one -- it seems to have SOME smape...), s/he adapted the Spidey design rather creatively. It's much closer than most Spiderman cakes we've seen here!
The Optimus cake makes just -slightly- more sense if the picture is turned upside down (blue on top). Not much, but slightly. It's still an abomination for TF fans everywhere LOL.
@trevor. Exactly my first thought. DUH
Does anyone think the Optimus cake is also upside down? Although the black lining does appear to be a face with a smirky little grin and creepy 3 iris eyeballs, it COULD be the hat is on the wrong end.
Last cake: dreidel, dreidel, dreidel we made you out of cake
Had you just put the Optimus Prime one up there without the other picture I would've had no clue what that was. It looks nothing like Optimus Prime!!!!! At least the other two you can tell what they were trying to be
The Optimus Prime cake is upside down. Unfortunately, it's only slightly less wrong right-side up :-/
Is Optimus upside down? Not that it matters very much...
And those melting star-tip dots: looks like something that I make with star-tip dots.
Is that really frosting under Spiderman, on the cake board??
More like "Failed it!" Optimus Prime looks like Jeans and a shirt torso-thingy. Hilarious, as usual ;)
I spit my coffee out when reading the COMMENTS. The cakes were just sad. The comments though, they made my day!
That's quite a "cleft" OP has there. Reminds me of blue pants. That are, um, filled out.
Poor Scoob's grimace has me in tears. Best wreck of the week!