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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.
Now, don't you have a photo you want to send me? ;)
- Jen
March 11, 2015;)
Reader Comments (32)
What kind of occasion calls for a cake like that?! D:
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(snort)
(choke on coffee)
That's a really HANDS ON approach to celebrating...
HANDS DOWN the creepy cake of the week...
Got to HAND IT TO YA,.....k. Stopping now.
... is that a latex glove full of icing?
That cake is, I think, #2 behind the horrible baby-coming-out-of-mom cakes. In horror. In get-me-the-eye-bleach-ness. I will try to assend above that visual and not think about it. "Tracey!"
giggle snort
For the old people out there:
"Endless Love"
Dear Josh
Thirty nice years of your life
Are ending now with strife
My dear Josh
I’d like to give you a break
With something I can bake
And I
I want to share
this fine cake with you
Nothing else I can do
And your eyes (your eyes, your eyes)
Will be in need of bleach
Oh, yes
Take this from me
My rubber glove
I think... dear God... I think that actually IS a latex glove filled with icing.
The weird alien smoothness of the palm, the unrealistic finger joints (only one per hand), the splayed thumb, the fact that it's difficult to tell whether it's the front of the hand or the back = truth: They Walk Among Us.
I bet, when Joshua was a little boy, he got his hand slammed shut in a car door. His well-intentioned mother tried to calm him; "there, there Josh, it doesn't hurt, it just tickles". But Joshua knew. He knew.
Gee, thanks @SuBee, I hadn't really begun thinking of myself as old just yet. And [then] you, you-ooo-ooo, come along.
The "tickle tickle" caption really elevates this to a horror movie level of creepiness.
PLEASE tell me that is supposed to be the palm of the hand!
Because otherwise...
FINGERS.SHOULD.NOT.BEND.THAT.WAY.
*shudder*
I'm Sorry Angela. What I meant to say was, "For all readers, young and old, who found themselves subjected to the original song sometime in their past."
You are not in the least bit old!
Ed, whoever the hand came from must have battled TO THE PAIN....has arrived at the DEAR GOD WHAT IS THAT THING stage.....
I'm pretty sure that's a latex glove. Just...eewwwwwww That thumb should be looked at by a doctor. o.O
... at least I HOPE it's filled with icing.
<shudder>
I guess it really could be a glove filled with frosting/icing. No biggie; just snip the fingertips off and squeeze/suck the stuff out. A fun mess for the whole family! *Disclaimer*: Use caution around open flames, pets, sharp objects, children, or adults (sharp or otherwise). By the way, technically I'm a "senior citizen", so I'm *old*, too; but not *!THAT!* old; I prefer to use the term "classic". Better yet: "vintage"... as in fine wine, or cheese. Or a Maserati A6G 200 Berlinetta Grand Sport Frua .
=^-.-^=
@Kelley: you win for the "Far Side-eist" quote of the day! "He knew" oh, yes indeed he did!
@SuBee: GREAT save, rescuing us from feeling any older than the immatu...um, joyful youth seeming people we so totally still are!
@Medith: I LOVE any and all PB references...combined with a Cake Wreck is always makes me smile! and the puns....oh the punnish puns! :-)
I have images (just because I love frosting... and might just do it myself???) of Joshua and his friends cutting the tips off the fingers and sucking frosting out. Sort of like sucking the peachy pink teats of a frosting cow?
Gitchy gitchy EWWWW!
@SuBee lmao nailed it
Aside from the "What? Why? Eww!" immediate reaction, that hand would make a good zombie hand, protruding from a grave. What kind of story is behind a cake like this??
The Glove o'Goo actually takes some of the edge off of the inherent horror of the cake. Questionable use of medical supplies might actually be the least creepy way to express tickling in cake form. But unless that's Great Aunt Ester trying to give 30 year old Joshua a "tickle tickle", there is something wrong in Joshua's life.
Wrong like latex on buttercream...or buttercream in latex. Either way. Not ok.
Ok, I was already squicked out about the hand as it was (and praying it was supposed to be a left hand so the fingers were bent the right way) when I read @Robin's comment and gagged at the implications of her last comment.
Oh sure, it sounds delicious, to suck the frosting from the glove. Then you realize it would taste like talcum powder and latex. Maybe they can play doctor by slicing open the glove to get to the untainted frosting goodness in the center.
Kinda reminds me of the old Stretch Armstrong toys.
The fingers look like they're bending both ways at once. I am fully creeped out.
Try I might to come up with a suitable scenario, there is no back story I can think of that makes this cake appropriate. If it was meant to be a 3rd birthday cake, it would be sort of cute but ill-advised as the kid is likely to end up with the latex glove in his mouth at some point. For a thirty year old...just, why?
Can't...stop...shuddering...
Just what is being tickled? And why would a latex glove be required for it? Ewww.
I don't understand. What was he in therapy for exactly?
I really hope that hand is not a latex glove filled with frosting. If so.. run far away from that cake as possible lol. That would be perfect for Halloween.
I wish I had checked in earlier . With all the creepy handedness no one even mentioned that the poor boys name is Toshua. That is a T in all the universes I have lived in.