Cake Wrecks

Cake Wrecks: When Professional Cakes go Hilariously Wrong
By Jen Yates
Andrews McMeel Publishing, LLC, 2009. 191 p. Nonfiction

You know that saying, “you’d have to see it to believe it”? Well, it definitely holds true for Cake Wrecks—a book based on Jen Yate’s notorious blog highlighting the best (as in the worst) cake disasters known to mankind and the culinary world. The pictures of these tragic sugared confections of frosted goo aren’t complete without Yate’s humorous commentary and she blithely points out the insanity of a cake that reads “I want sprinkles”. Perhaps the sprinkles were to be actually…sprinkled on the cake rather than written but what gets lost in translation is easily spun into a belly laugh that’s rather snarky, but all in good fun.

As Yates points out “A cake wreck is any professionally made cake that is unintentionally sad, silly, creepy, inappropriate—you name it.” (and she does). From a camouflaged wedding tier replete with plastic army men to the surprising news of “I am Pregnanet” announced joyfully in red frosting. There are plenty more sweet horrors where that came from so laugh all you want, because the party just doesn’t stop. Just a reminder for our sensitive readers, some of these cake-tastic creations may need a tad bit of censoring. For more sugarlicious fun check out her blog at http://cakewrecks.blogspot.com/.

DAP