Have Your Cake and Mock It, Too

Since I am feeling the familiar pangs of a sweet tooth right now, and since I recently baked a mean key lime pie for my honey's birthday, I thought it would be fun to feature the NYT Bestseller, Cake Wrecks: When Professional Cakes Go Hilarously Wrong, by Jen Yates. Based on Yates' hilarious blog of the same name, this book contains over 150 photos of bizarro cakes that boast some kind of ridiculous and cringe-worthy misstep. Jen Yates defines as a cake wreck as: "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." Pretty delightful, no?

Among my personal favs on the blog are the cakes with grammatical errors and typos in their messages (obvi.), but I also can't get enough of the cakes where the cake-decorator and cake-orderer have a major communication breakdown--see here, and here, oh, and here, too (make sure you keep scrolling!).

Hope this provides a healthier and more hilarious alternative to raiding your fridge for that late night treat!