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? ;)
September 17, 2014 Sprinkles:
Doin' it wrong:
;)
"Wow, that's a lot of sprinkles."
Doin' it wronger:
;)
"Wow, that's a lot of...
"Waaait a minute.
"Is that... paper?"
;)
It IS!!
Not cool, man. Not. Cool.
Sorry, Anne-Marie and Katie W.; I guess one of you still can't have any.
Note: If you can't tell, the bottom cake is an edible photocopy of sprinkles. Yupperdoodles.
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Reader Comments (45)
Sung to "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star"
Sprinkles! Sprinkles? How bizarre…
I can’t tell just what you are.
Something on this cake’s awry.
Those aren’t sprinkles! They’re a lie!
I’m thinking you’ve gone too far.
Photocopies are subpar.
Remember the song "Feelings" from the 70's or 80's or something like that? No? Well lucky you. It's been haunting me since I was a very young girl...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64uBOLCQXSo
Sprinkles. Nothing more than sprinkles
I asked for many sprinkles.
Flung onto my cake.
Paper. Just pictures of sprinkles
Ain't the same as sprinkles
It's a big fake
Sprinkles, for all my life I’ve loved them
I wish to roll ‘round in them
A photo's not the same
Sprinkles, whoa, whoa, whoa sprinkles
Whoa, whoa, ouch, sprinkles are causing me pain
I have to say, the top one looks a lot like my 40th birthday cake. Except my husband ordered it that way. I like sprinkles. Kind of like that fish in Finding Nemo likes bubbles. Like a lot. But photocopied sprinkles. No freaking way. Not acceptable.
Nonsense. There is no quantity of sprinkles that is too many sprinkles. Paper sprinkles though: nope.
If you're gonna overdo the sprinkles, at least USE SPRINKLES. There's no shortage of 'em man. Sheesh.
Woah! The baker is getting revenge on all the parents who came in criticizing cakes. Can you imagine the temper tantrum the kid who wanted all those sprinkles is going to have when he/she figures out there aren't really sprinkles? Soon, the kid is going to start questioning the existence of other things that seem real like Santa, Jedi mind powers, and Disney animated characters....
You're evil, Baker-too-lazy-to-use-real-sprinkles-because-it's-easier-this-way, just pure evil!
I once ordered a cake to have it say "I Want Sprinkles" just to see what would happen. When we picked up the cake, it did indeed have a sprinkling of sprinkles, but the cake said "I Want Sparkles."
I guess if you don't like sprinkles, at least you have the option on the bottom cake of peeling them off. But who doesn't like sprinkles?!?
Wait, how is that many sprinkles wrong? Am I the only one who will eat sprinkles straight out of the container?
I will NOT eat a photo of sprinkles, that's just wrong.
O_o
Why? Why would anyone pull such a cruel trick? Sprinkles are awesome, even when overused! Edible paper sprinkle printouts just sound mean.
Shake ‘Em Off (with apologies to Taylor Swift)
I eat too much cake
Got frosting in my brain
That’s what people say, mmm-mmm
That’s what people say, mmm-mmm
My posts are way too long (chuckle)
There’s way too many songs
At least that’s what people say, mmm-mmm
That’s what people say, mmm-mmm
But I keep posting
As long as Jen and john(thoJ) keep hosting
It’s like I got these posts
In my mind
Saying, “It’s gonna be alright.”
‘Cause the posters gonna write, write, write, write, write
And the haters gonna fight, fight, fight, fight, fight
But these sprinkles you can’t shake, shake, shake, shake, shake
Can’t shake ‘em off, can’t shake ‘em off
It makes my heart ache, ache, ache, ache, ache
When I see this fake, fake, fake, fake, fake
Baby, you’re never gonna shake, shake, shake, shake, shake
Can’t shake em off, can’t shake ‘em off
The do look kind of neat
But they cannot be eat
This is very strange to me, mmm-mmm
I don’t get what they see, mmm-mmm
There’s paper on this cake (paper on this cake)
It must be some mistake (some mistake)
Why they did this I don’t know, mmm-mmm
That’s what I don’t know, mmm-mmm
But they keep wrecking
Can’t stop, won’t stop drecking
It’s like they got this
Mantra in their mind
Saying, “Anything’s alright.”
‘Cause the bakers gonna bake, bake, bake, bake, bake
And continue to wreck cake, cake, cake, cake, cake
But these sprinkles you can’t shake, shake, shake, shake, shake
Can’t shake ‘em off, shake ‘em off
The bakers gonna bake, bake, bake, bake, bake
Using sprinkles that are fake, fake, fake, fake, fake
And, Baby, you can’t shake, shake, shake, shake, shake
Can’t shake ‘em off, can’t shake ‘em off
Can’t shake ‘em off, can’t shake ‘em off
Can’t, can’t, can’t shake ‘em off, can’t shake ‘em off
Can’t, can’t, can’t shake ‘em off, can’t shake ‘em off
Can’t, can’t, can’t shake ‘em off, can’t shake ‘em off
Hey, hey, hey
Just think while you’ve been getting down and out about the bakers and the dirty, dirty, dirty tricks of their world,
They could have made a decent cake to eat
An ex-baker brought his new girlfriend
She’s like, “Oh, my God, those you can’t shake."
And to the fella over there with the hella good hair
Don’t even try, buddy. You can’t shake, shake, shake
Yeah ohhh
‘Cause the bakers gonna bake, bake, bake, bake, bake
And use sprinkles that are fake, fake, fake, fake, fake (sprinkles that are fake)
And you cannot shake, shake, shake, shake, shake
Can’t shake ‘em off, can’t shake ‘em off
It makes my heart ache, ache, ache, ache, ache (mmmm)
When I see this fake, fake, fake, fake, fake (and fake, and fake, and fake)
Baby, you’re never gonna shake, shake, shake, shake, shake
Can’t shake em off, can’t shake ‘em off
Shake ‘em off, shake ‘em off
Can’t, can’t, can’t shake ‘em off, can’t shake ‘em off
Can’t, can’t, can’t shake ‘em off, can’t shake ‘em off
Can’t, can’t, can’t shake ‘em off, can’t shake ‘em off
(repeat 2X)
The annuls of history will now note that the surrealist cake movement commenced in 2014.
Or is this a tromp l'oiel de la sprinkles?
That top cake would be a dream for me. All that buttercream frosting with all those sprinkles, especially the special sprinkles. Yum. I wouldn't even need the cake, which is a good thing considering this pesky throat-closing wheat allergy. But I digress--buttercream and scads of sprinkles, mmm-mmm good.
The edible paper sprinkles, not a dream. It probably has that nasty whipped "frosting" under it. (Let the buttercream vs. whipped frosting debate begin!)
That top cake would be a dream for me. All that buttercream frosting with all those sprinkles, especially the special sprinkles. Yum. I wouldn't even need the cake, which is a good thing considering this pesky throat-closing wheat allergy. But I digress--buttercream and scads of sprinkles, mmm-mmm good.
The edible paper sprinkles, not a dream. It probably has that nasty whipped "frosting" under it. (Let the buttercream vs. whipped frosting debate begin!)
As a regular Meijer customer (yes, I recognize the label), I have to laugh at the fact that it is not only a Cake Wreck, but also a clearance cake. Apparently, they couldn't sell it in the first few days, so a markdown was necessary. LOL!
Photographs and memories
of sprinkled cakes you sent to me
All that I have are these to remember you
Memories that come at night
Take me to another time
Back to a happier day, when I had sprinkles
Wrecker 1: Dude, I just used up all the sprinkles, but this one needs some too. We're screwed...
Wrecker 2: Wait-- I have AN IDEA!
Sprinkles-lovers of the world arise!!
There is no such thing as "too many sprinkles". And anyone who substitutes a photocopy of sprinkles for the real thing must be dragged from the bakery and forced to eat plastic flotsam, black icing, poo piles, and sperm balloons.
I struggled to see anything wrong with the first cake, too many sprinkles does not exist in my house. As for the second one, that's just plain wrong.
The top cakes looks just fine, with the perfect amount of sprinkles. That's how many we put on our cakes and cupcakes at home! If you can still see the frosting it isn't too many!
@Sandy - Jim Croce? Nice :)
please tell me that last cake was an April fool prank!
@mel ~ "And to the fella over there with the hella good hair" cracked me UP!!! I can totally hear my oldest saying that! You're so hip!
With apologies to Haiku Joy ;-)
I want sprinkles, now
Paper fake ones, not okay
Just dump the whole jar
@Mel - that song is currently an obsession of mine. You've given me new words to snicker at.
Me, too, SuBee. Me, too. Trying to forget "Feelings" the song.
Okay, now I want to see an entire cake decorated with edible paper, not just a picture of a nice cake, no, I want pictures of piping where piping should be. C'mon, wreckerators, don't let me down.
Trying to imagine how/when this could happen....
"Baker, I had the most excellent cake, and I want you to recreate it EXACTLY. See how the white sprinkles are arranged so perfectly, and there are exactly 245 yellow ones, and the blue are concentrated here just so? Can you place them just like that please?"
(sigh)
Sprinkles? Use paper?
These kinds of questions are best
left for the bathroom.
Speaking of surrealist cakes, no one yet seems to have made THE Magritte cake: pale coffee icing, large realistic picture of cake on top, written underneath in handwriting: 'Ceci n'est pas un gâteau.'
Looking at cake #1 I was thinking - they missed a spot in the lower front. Well hey, if you're going to cover a cake in sprinkles...don't be cheap about it! Amiright?
Cake 2 took me a minute of looking at the picture and wondering just HOW they got the sprinkles into an exact fine line edge like that...and then I heard GLaDOS in my head saying something like "You didn't deserve the real sprinkles anyways, did you honestly think I was going to let you have them?"
Damn her >_<
@SuBee: what a great song, from 1975, and done by countless singers…but none with the passion, angst and verve of your version….and by the way, when I was a kid we called ‘em “jimmies”…..
@Jodee: sorry, I’m not that hip any more (and I’m really not certain I ever was hip) – that line is in the original song….and I agree with your haiku sentiment….
@Pamtha: that’s what I’m here for...snicker away! :-)
Mel Mel Mel Mel
THAT WAS AMAZING, I LOVE YOU!!!
Is no one going to say anything about the green dookie looking turd icing that goes around the faux sprinkles cake? ...très gauche...
No one wants a dookie cake.
HA! Haiku Joy you have outdone yourself. I'll be giggling over that all day.
@Rachel: Thank you so much! I'm glad you enjoyed it...and thanks for the CW love....I do have fun here....
I love this post! How cool that the photo I submitted and the post have been re-published as a Wrecky Replay - Yay!!! And sprinkle edible paper is NOT cool o.O .
Mel, FOR THE WIN
At the grocery store bakery I work at, we are required to make an 8" single round cake, PACKED with sprinkles all over, to keep in our cake case. One of my co-workers aptly called it the "diabetes cake" We don't sell many
While I personally agree that the first cake has too many sprinkles, I have plenty of friends who would love it (and even argue that one can never have too many sprinkles). So I guess that one is in the eye of the beholder. I cannot imagine why anyone would want that second cake. If you like sprinkles, you'll be disappointed. If you dislike sprinkles, then why have a photo of them on your cake?
Actually, why have a photo of sprinkles anyway? Irony? Surrealism? A cruel joke? Ennui? Ran out of the real thing?
@Sharyn: The Twinkle Little Star paraody actualy made me giggle. Nice one. ^_^
The songs are wonderful as always, thank you! Haiku Joy - Bwahahahahaha!
… I wonder how wreckerators would respond to a request for "jimmies," which is what the Philly area called "sprinkles" when I was growing up.
Thats just wrong in so many ways!!
Why not just print out a picture of the whole cake and let people try to eat that?!
@Chelsea: thank you...I believe that everyone who comes to this site and laughs wins because I think a daily dose of laughter is essential to a good life.... and I am fortunate to be able to play here with so many clever, talented, funny people....thanks again, and keep laughing!
And here I was thinking that second cake wasn't too bad. You can never have too many sprinkles. But, does that mean that the cake is a lie?
Lmao!! Now we don't get real sprinkles just edible paper ones. Sheesh lazy wreckerators.
What baffles me most is that it's probably much harder to find and print a picture of sprinkles on edible paper than to simply put sprinkles on the cake