Cake Wrecks

I’ve been enjoying Cake Wrecks, a blog devoted to some of the most hilariously cringe-worthy cake decorating.

One major cause of cake wrecks is incompetence on the cake decorator’s part. This is especially true for cakes purchased at a grocery store, where the people in the cake department are more likely to be repurposed shelf-stockers or deli counter people than pastry chefs.

Here’s a cake from a grocery store, decorated by an employee who:

• needs to work on the ol’ icing penmanship,
• should lay off the sauce while at work, or
• follows the credo “Get minimum wage, give minimum effort”.

This grocery store-decorated cake shows a little more effort than the previous one, but this time the decorator confused instructions for text:

Another major cause of cake wrecks: bad taste on the part of the person ordering the cake.

(I will be the first to admit that bad taste is sometimes called for. “Good taste is the first refuge of the witless,” as Harley Parker said.)

C’mon, admit it: there’s at least one person you’d love to send a cake like this to:

This one was apparently brought in by someone’s boss to the office to explain their sexual harassment policy and still keep the message delicious:

And finally, there’s this wonderful baby shower cake:

There are many more such cakes at Cake Wrecks — go check ‘em out now!