Pastry mishaps equals death-by-laughter experience
Joelle Halon
Issue date: 3/22/10 Section: Entertainment
A family member's birthday is coming up, so you order her a birthday cake in order to celebrate the big event. You tell the receptionist what you want written on the cake, what color decorations you want and what day you will pick up it up.
With a smile, you walk into the bakery, take the cake home and place the box at the center of the table so the birthday girl can blow out her candles. With great anticipation, you open the box expecting the cake to read in cheery pink font with blue balloons, "Happy 50th, Bernadette!" only to discover the writing says, "Happy 50st, Burt and Annette!" with balloons that look like phalli on strings.
Oops.
Hopefully, you took a picture of the cake wreck and sent it to Jen Yates, creator of cakewrecks.com and author of the side-splitting book "Cake Wrecks: When Professional Cakes Go Hilariously Wrong."
Those who are already fans of Yates' website, which was recently featured on the Yahoo! homepage, will know what the site is about. The site, like the book, features images of cake "fails" that makea person say, "What the heck?" then laugh hysterically.
In a 2009 interview with Bridget Delaney and in the introduction of her book, Yates, a cake decorator instructor, said she started collecting images of odd-looking cakes. Then, via a chain email, she received an image of a cake reading, "Best wishes Suzanne under neat that we will miss you!" This cake, Yates said, inspired her to start a now famous blog that later turned into a bestselling book.
Divided into several chapters, "Cake Wrecks" covers everything from graduations to baby showers, birthdays to weddings and anniversaries. No cake is safe from Yates' harsh commentary, but this is what makes the book entertaining and laugh-out-loud-burst-a-lung funny. If the images of the cakes themselves do not create laughter, Yates' witty remarks will. "Cake Wrecks" takes all the best images and captions from Yates' blog, but also contains blurbs from the people who submitted the cake images, adding more humor to the already humorous wrecks.
With a smile, you walk into the bakery, take the cake home and place the box at the center of the table so the birthday girl can blow out her candles. With great anticipation, you open the box expecting the cake to read in cheery pink font with blue balloons, "Happy 50th, Bernadette!" only to discover the writing says, "Happy 50st, Burt and Annette!" with balloons that look like phalli on strings.
Oops.
Hopefully, you took a picture of the cake wreck and sent it to Jen Yates, creator of cakewrecks.com and author of the side-splitting book "Cake Wrecks: When Professional Cakes Go Hilariously Wrong."
Those who are already fans of Yates' website, which was recently featured on the Yahoo! homepage, will know what the site is about. The site, like the book, features images of cake "fails" that makea person say, "What the heck?" then laugh hysterically.
In a 2009 interview with Bridget Delaney and in the introduction of her book, Yates, a cake decorator instructor, said she started collecting images of odd-looking cakes. Then, via a chain email, she received an image of a cake reading, "Best wishes Suzanne under neat that we will miss you!" This cake, Yates said, inspired her to start a now famous blog that later turned into a bestselling book.
Divided into several chapters, "Cake Wrecks" covers everything from graduations to baby showers, birthdays to weddings and anniversaries. No cake is safe from Yates' harsh commentary, but this is what makes the book entertaining and laugh-out-loud-burst-a-lung funny. If the images of the cakes themselves do not create laughter, Yates' witty remarks will. "Cake Wrecks" takes all the best images and captions from Yates' blog, but also contains blurbs from the people who submitted the cake images, adding more humor to the already humorous wrecks.
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