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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.

Now, don't you have a photo you want to send me? ;)

- Jen
Thursday
Dec112014

Even More Cakes That Fail Hilariously At Looking Like The Things They're Supposed To Look Like

Back by popular* demand! A brand new edition of Cakes Failing To Look Like The Things They're Supposed To Look Like!

[*The cats liked it.]

A Shamrock:

When the luck of the Irish has a bad day.
And then gets all its limbs cut off.

 

Balloons.
Literally the easiest thing you can make with cake:

WE'RE DOOMED.

 

A Football Helmet:

Alien skull. Final answer.

 

Flip-Flops:

If these look right to you, then someday you're going to make a podiatrist very, VERY happy.

 

Basketballs:

Or stick figures with no faces.

 

A School Bus:

Or so they claim.
I'm convinced this is actually a platypus named School Bus. See the little nostrils?

 

A Baseball Glove:

For the longest time I thought this was supposed to be turkey.
Then I saw the fingernails.

 

BONUS POP QUIZ!

Can you guess what this is supposed to be?

 

How about this one?

Answers in the comments!
Assuming someone guesses right!
[wicked grin]

 

Thanks to Anony M., Jennifer M., Matt M., Katie T., Maggie P., Sally N., Tracie T., Jennalee, & Lauren L. for the excuse to use John's favorite post title again.

 

Note from john: Someone just told me they were done with Cake Wrecks because Jen didn't give you guys the answer in the comments in a timely manner. Honestly, we thought it was fun seeing your guesses. Well, as far as we know, it's the Mad Men logo and a teapot. Unless we're wrong. Merry Christmas!

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Reader Comments (295)

I'm going with Mad Men logo and princess carriage. Jen?!?!?!

December 12, 2014 | Unregistered CommenterBookworm

Worst mad men logo EVER

December 12, 2014 | Unregistered Commenterkstolz

A lit crack pipe and a teapot.

December 12, 2014 | Unregistered Commenteraneesa

The second to last one looks like a seal balancing something on it's nose and the last one is a tea pot.

December 12, 2014 | Unregistered CommenterChris V

A duck and a teapot??

December 12, 2014 | Unregistered CommenterDbie

I'm really dying to know so I'm going to make some crazy guesses. I still think number one is Don Draper in a party hat, but number 2???? An elephant in a wooly hat! Or the part with the flowers is a bath mat, the blue swirls is water sloshing out of the tub and the weird thing at the top is an abbreviated foot. An alien slot machine? Cartman from the back wearing a tablecloth cape. A misshapen princess crown sliding off a slippery pillow. An incense burner. Mount Fuji in the rain? Come on, how bout a hint?!?!?!?

December 12, 2014 | Unregistered Commentermel

The first one is a stapler.
I thought the second one was a teapot, but there's no spout. What's that thing on top that's obscured by the glare. Is that Cinderella in her ballgown? Well, then, the cake is clearly the ballroom floor.

December 12, 2014 | Unregistered CommenterJ.D.

My daughter and I thought the first one was a whale with a tumor wearing a party hat. Second one is definitely a teapot. Maybe a princess teapot?

December 12, 2014 | Unregistered CommenterHeidi

BONUS #1- I KNOW THIS ONE!!!! LOL
looks like the Criminal Minds tv show logo to me. I don't know what that thing on the top of the words is supposed to be though.

BONUS #2-
def a tea pot

December 12, 2014 | Unregistered Commenterrachael

That last cake is obviously Rapunzel in her tower.

December 12, 2014 | Unregistered CommenterElisha

The first one looks like a poster for the first season of "American Horror Story." The original pic featured a man in a black rubber suit with a woman.

December 13, 2014 | Unregistered CommenterKelley

a baby buggy for the second, a gnome riding a whale for the first.

December 13, 2014 | Unregistered CommenterGoodyTombShoes

@sending Theadare may return,,,

@Jodee Picture please!!!

December 13, 2014 | Unregistered CommenterEla

I have no idea what the first bonus cake is; not even a clue...

I think svf is correct about the 2nd "bonus" cake though; it must be a baby carriage due to the wheels.

Thank you, Thank you, Thank you "sending the clowns" for making me laugh out loud with your post. I REALLY needed to laugh today.

December 13, 2014 | Unregistered CommenterNew England Flybaby

The first one is a Loon?
Second a tea pot.

December 13, 2014 | Unregistered CommenterBeth

Easy! A corpse with a party hat on and the (extremely) mad hatter's teapot.

December 14, 2014 | Unregistered CommenterLuciana

A saw and a teapot?

December 14, 2014 | Unregistered CommenterFancy

The football helmet and the school bus look a lot alike. Are they both platypuses?

December 14, 2014 | Unregistered CommenterJose Parrot

Pop quiz cake #1... Seal with a party hat?

#2 I'm going to have to go with teapot.

December 15, 2014 | Unregistered CommenterJenn B

Bonus 1: Corpse on a slab in an attempt at "over the hill" humour.
Bonus 2: I agree to the Barbie Teapot.

December 15, 2014 | Unregistered CommenterJoelle

The Mad Men icon with a party hat one.
I also guess the second one is a tea pot.

December 15, 2014 | Unregistered CommenterJess M

Well, my first thought was that the first bonus was baby Santa riding backwards in the Ambiguously Gay Duo's car, naturally. Though now, I'm inclined to say Mad Men logo.

The second one? Wow. A plastic magic mirror that was left in a car and got melty?

December 15, 2014 | Unregistered CommenterMichelle

First one: fire hose?
2ND one: disaster?

December 16, 2014 | Unregistered Commentererin

These are both OBVIOUSLY Harry Potter cakes. First one is an impressionist depiction of Voldemort, the DARK lord, returning from the limbo of not-quite death thanks to Harry's blood in the red writing. Happy birthday to him, cos he's baaaaack. And his wizard hat doubles as a party hat.
Second one - a teapot. So revoltingly pink and girly that it must be Umbridge's; points off the Wreckerator for blatant lack of kittens.

December 16, 2014 | Unregistered CommenterMichelle

First bonus: Was definitely a Matt Smith Doctor Who cake. It's him laying down with a fez on his head.
IOn the original photo, he is laying on the Tardis

December 16, 2014 | Unregistered CommenterLeah

The first one is obviously a gnome riding a whale backwards. Duh.

December 16, 2014 | Unregistered CommenterLee

everyone got Teapot, the one before it is a dead guy, with a festive red party hat, so I am guessing the recipient was "over the hill"?

December 16, 2014 | Unregistered CommenterMad Caker

I think the 2nd to last one is a man in a party hat laying on a "happy Birthday" Matress and of course I am with everyone else that it is a teapot for the last one(too easy so it is prolly wrong). But somehow I am prolly wrong on both LOL

December 16, 2014 | Unregistered CommenterTina

First one: A seal with a bump on its head, wearing a tiny Santa hat?

December 17, 2014 | Unregistered CommenterChibs

I think the first pop quiz one is supposed to be a loon. I see that most people think the second one is a teapot, and I guess I can see that, but it's the weirdest looking teapot I've ever seen.

December 17, 2014 | Unregistered CommenterKatie

Will we ever know who's right?

December 18, 2014 | Unregistered Commenterkris

2nd to last - my first thought was whale with a party hat
last - 1st thought was teapot, until someone said that was too obvious (I can't see the top
part too well in case that is a clue), so I will go with the children's fractured nursery
rhyme:

"Oh my goodness, bless my soul;
I'm not the teapot, I'm the sugar bowl"

December 20, 2014 | Unregistered CommenterDavetteB

I still think the first looks like a submarine no matter WHAT it's really supposed to be.

December 21, 2014 | Unregistered CommenterXploder

A seal and a princess sugar bowl?

December 22, 2014 | Unregistered CommenterLaraJF

The first is a cannon being lit.

The second is a teapot!

December 24, 2014 | Unregistered CommenterToni B

first one is a cannon, second one is a teapot

December 24, 2014 | Unregistered Commenterkate

The second-to-last cake with the long cylindrical thing and red triangle looks like the submarine they used in one of the Austin Powers movies. Remember the one shaped like Dr. Evil, with his head popping out of the front of the sub? That would make the most sense for the red triangle being a party hat. What do you think? :)

December 25, 2014 | Unregistered Commentertom

Wow! Sorry someone went all grumpy pants on you!
A cannon, really? A cannon? I think it comes from a galaxy far far away, cause it doesn't look like any cannon I ever saw. Thanks for letting us know.

December 27, 2014 | Unregistered Commentermel

OBVIOUSLY, the first one is an olympic luge athlete with a birthday cone hat on.

haha- this kills me that you all didn't see that... thought it was a duck. How absurd. lol just kidding. It's anyone's guess at this point.

December 29, 2014 | Unregistered CommenterYou all missed the boat

The first one is super easy, it's the Mad Men silhouette. You can even see the cigarette. The second one is a teapot, and is a great example of why cupcake cakes are horrible.

December 29, 2014 | Unregistered Commenterweezle

I think the first one is supposed to be the MAD MEN theme. And the second might be a MY LITTLE PONY

December 30, 2014 | Unregistered CommenterKes

It's Perry! Perry the School Bus!

January 2, 2015 | Unregistered CommenterPinkie Pie

Ok, I know everyone saw a teapot on the second one, but I swear to god that I saw an unicorn. No, I don't know what I've been eating. Or drinking. As for the first, well I prefer not to speculate, since well, I'm clearly not good at guessing.

January 8, 2015 | Unregistered CommenterTais

Second to the last one, I'm guessing racecar
Last one, as everyone has said, a teapot

January 8, 2015 | Unregistered CommenterLindsay

I thought submarine right off the bat for the first one, though I have no explanation for the red thing, and the second can't be a teapot, yet it must be....

January 8, 2015 | Unregistered Commentermj

Mad Men and Cinderella's Coach, clearly. They're bad, but not unrecognizable at all.

January 18, 2015 | Unregistered CommenterJeme

The black one with happy birthday is the mad men symbol? The guy with his arm stretched out on a couch (ie the happy birthday) and wearing a read hat.

January 20, 2015 | Unregistered CommenterChristine baker

1st one = marijuana pipe (if it's from Colorado)
2nd one = .... another bong... I've been in Colorado too long.

January 21, 2015 | Unregistered CommenterAH

#1- A kinkster covered in latex looking up and saying happy birthday.
#2- A teapot.
#3- My foot is broken in 3 different places and I'm on a heavy dose of percocet which is why, at 3am, I'm seeing a kinkster covered in latex on your blog. Please forgive me.

January 25, 2015 | Unregistered CommenterMary Jane

Mad men logo for the top one and second one tea pot maybe. Lol

January 27, 2015 | Unregistered CommenterMichelle

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