You guys, this Sunday is Halloween! And you know what that means, right? Yep: Time to get our hands on some cake . | Continue reading
Last weekend marked the first below-90-degree weather we've had in Orlando in nearly six months! Woohoo! Which means I can now officially say... | Continue reading
You know bakeries are cracking down pretty hard when they feel the need to remove the "ass" from "Associate." | Continue reading
After the last, well, two years-ish?, I think we could all use a nice, relaxing post. Something safe, easy, and appetizing. Something that brings to mind happy places... | Continue reading
You know how sometimes we like to zoom in to see all the wrecky details? Well, it turns out sometimes we should zoom OUT. Take this wedding cake, for example: | Continue reading
You know when you go to a haunted house, how there's the usual super scary corpse-undertaker-chasing-you-with-a-blood-covered-chainsaw section? And across the parking lot there's the happy-hayride-pumpkin-patch-and-face-painting-with-the-kids section? That's where you'll find tod … | Continue reading
It happens to the best of us: Sometimes, you just run out of room. | Continue reading
The big day is next week, people, so before you hit the streets to go trick-or-treating, here are some useful "guidelines" for having a safe and scream-worthy night: Never accept rides from strangers. | Continue reading
Remember that cake with a perfectly drawn Gerber Baby on it that was supposed to be a Gerber daisy ? Yeah, I love that one. So needless to say, my day has just been made by this "Princess Crown": | Continue reading
Warning: Weenie humor ahead! Anyone else think the Halloween cakes are getting kinda handsy this year? | Continue reading
We all have a favorite Tim Burton movie, be it Nightmare Before Christmas, Corpse Bride, Beetlejuice, or Alice in Wonderland . (No one's favorite is Planet of the Apes . FACT.) So to gear up for Halloween, let's check out some ghoulishly gorgeous Burton-inspired Sweet … | Continue reading
Some questions are easy to answer. "Cake, or DEATH ?" "Uh...cake, please." Others can be a little more tricky: "Trick, or TROAT ?" | Continue reading
October is Breast Cancer Awareness month, bakers, which means it's time to slap pink icing ribbons on everything , including last month's leftover cookies: | Continue reading
This is it! We're close to proving bakery hauntings, I can feel it! Scoff all you like, but I was present at an undersea, unexplained mass sponge migration. | Continue reading
And because we've seen your haircut, you will be Miss . P.S. ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US. Sorry, Dannielle L., but I must be living. ***** P.S. You seem stressed, Shane. Take two of these and don't call me in the morning: | Continue reading
In honor of one of the greatest movies of all time, I'd like to tell you a story. It's a story of the man in black: | Continue reading
Faster than a speeding bullet, more powerful than a locomotive, able to leap tall buildings in a single bound - and all without ever leaving the table - it's SUPER CAKES! | Continue reading
Allow me to present a mini educational series on the "wonders" of punctuation. [ Cue the cheesy music! ] | Continue reading
...just like everybody else. | Continue reading
"Missus Jen, how many wrecks does it take to get to the center of your resolve against believing in a voodoo curse placed on our bakeries' numeric suffixes?" "Let's find out!" | Continue reading
Poor Darth Vader. He used to be the baddest of the bad guys, the deadliest dad, and the grumpiest force-choker around. Over the years, however, he's been reduced to a cuddly bear , a Hello Kitty parody , and a really excellent dancer. Adding to the indignity, … | Continue reading
Remember, bakers, if at first you don't succeed, try, try again. | Continue reading
I think it was Martha Stewart who once said, "Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication." Oh, whoops - actually that was Leonardo DaVinci. Either way, I bet Leo and Martha would both give sincere fist-bumps of approval to the bakers of these simple yet stunning wedd … | Continue reading
"Hi, I'd like to order this Dora cake, please." | Continue reading
Continuing my mini series on the wonders of punctuation, let's take a look at what happens when grammar goofs go horribly, seriously funny. | Continue reading
Remember the old saying? | Continue reading
I remember the first time I told my Mom the publisher wanted me to go on a book tour for Cake Wrecks . She responded by telling me about an author she'd seen at a big warehouse store the previous weekend, sitting alone behind a card table and looking desperate. "I just don … | Continue reading
Today, we're going to talk about the birds... | Continue reading
Bakers, do you worry that you, too, might be a wreckerator? Well, have no fear, pastry pros! There are plenty of warning signs to look for: You Might Be A Wreckerator If.... - ...you consider "happy" a four-letter word. | Continue reading
Yesterday we learned that writing names on cake can result in some pretty unfortunate nicknames. But what if you already have an adorable nickname? Like "Briana Banana?" How do you wreck that up? Well, in that case, I suppose the baker could always misspell i | Continue reading
Names are tough - there are just so many weird ones out there - so I tend to cut bakers a lot of slack when it comes to misspelling them. But I'm pretty sure these birthday kids weren't so understanding: | Continue reading
John tells me our readership took a hit this past month, and he couldn't figure out what had changed until someone mentioned everyone's back in school now. A-ha! Of course. So just to show that Cake Wrecks is nothing if not educational, I've whipped up a handy lesson guid … | Continue reading
Spacing: The FINAL frontier. | Continue reading
I kind of love the new vintage-style everything these days. From retro packaging to sweet fifties dresses to this rockin' orange rotary phone , I am eating the nostalgia-laced goodness UP. It's no surprise that vintage-style wedding cakes are in vogue as well, but I though … | Continue reading
ARRRRRR, me mateys! This Sunday be Talk Like a Pirate Day! So let's get starrrrted by going over arrr vocabularrrry with a quick pop quiz: Q: Where are we going tonight? A: To a BARRRRR. Q: And what will we drink? | Continue reading
Ever wonder how a wreck gets ordered? "I'd like a dragon cake, and could you have it breathing flame onto the cake board?" | Continue reading
Yesterday we covered parentheses and quotation mark. Today, THE WORLD. Or maybe just some extra apostrophes: | Continue reading
Woohoo!! National Punctuation Day is coming! You know what to do! | Continue reading
Me: AAAUUGH! BWAHAHAAA! John: What? [seeing cake] What IS that? Me: [laughing] John: Is it a cow? Buried face down? Me: [still laughing] John: Wait, no, I think it's a tree. A birch tree. Me: [shrill cacklin | Continue reading
OK, so... we've known each other for a long time now, right? And um, I just think, I mean, I really think that we're ready to, you know, take that next step together, you and me, so... I was wondering, if you would do me the honor of... | Continue reading
[howling wind] [howling dog] [howling wind and dog together] [plus a sprinkling of light rattling chains] Darkness falls across the land... | Continue reading
It took me forever to realize this wedding cake was supposed to have a Simpsons theme: | Continue reading
Every now and then - and I'm not saying this happens often - professional bakers have a little trouble making cakes that look like...well, anything . Perhaps hardest of all is the vehicle cake. There's just something about all those shapes and circles and square … | Continue reading
When it comes to powerfully good cake, the choice is (nu)clear: | Continue reading
Who says you have to have a white wedding? These bright beauties are proof you can have your color and eat it, too. Daisies are red, violets are blue... | Continue reading