You know the problem with grapes? They're just so... grapey. | Continue reading
I stumbled on a new trend in wedding cakes using an old classic - and I think you guys are gonna liiiiike it: | Continue reading
When you don't know if you should be more relieved... or worried: | Continue reading
It's "Stay Away From Seattle Day", minions, so for all of you NOT in Seattle: good job. Have some cake. And for you Seattle-ites: maybe try not to annoy the people who make up weird holidays. (Unless this a benefit, so you get a day free from tourists?) Anyhoo, much like … | Continue reading
Last week, I was thinking about that time we met Karen Prell and Brian Henson , and it was beyond amazing. I say this both to brag (WE MET KAREN PRELL AND BRIAN HENSON YOU GUYS) and to explain why I have Muppets on the brain. (Btw, "Muppets On The Brain" is the name of my … | Continue reading
Thanks to Debbie W., & Sarah F. for telling it like it is. ***** P.S. Today I learned they sell birthday candles you attach to your drinks . Your boozy drinks. | Continue reading
Sometimes you don't just want your cake to BE chocolate, you want it to LOOK chocolate. So for International Chocolate Day, I'm serving up 10 chocolate-drenched Sweets, like this : | Continue reading
I know I just talked about zebras last week, minions - or rather, the abject hatred wreckerators have for zebras, which prevents them from ever looking at zebras before they make zebra-striped cakes - but it turns out last week was only the tip of the icing 'berg. Now, I kno … | Continue reading
Wrecky minion Laura ordered this design for her son's birthday: | Continue reading
Happy Opposite Day, minions! Oh wait, or am I supposed to wish you a terrible Opposite Day? I'm a little fuzzy/slimy on the format here. Just to be safe, I've found a couple different examples of opposite cakes. Like numbers facing opposite directions: | Continue reading
As you know, September is International Strategic Thinking Month, so while we hang our Strategic Stockings and hum the Strategery anthem, let's take a quick break for cake... strategically. 1: Is your handwriting too big? | Continue reading
Today we celebrate the American work force that labors so hard to keep this great nation of ours running. Plus the ones who did this: | Continue reading
Anyone else have fond memories of your school's lab? The eye-wash stations against the back wall, the shelves of beakers and bunson burners, that funky burnt smell that never quite went away? Ahh, good times. So today we're celebrating all the fun parts of Lab, and pretending … | Continue reading
Bad poetry is like a really bad analogy. And super fun to write. Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?? | Continue reading
So tell me, minions, what wonderful memories have YOU made this summer? | Continue reading
Ahh, flip-flops. The quintessential, mandatory summer footwear of summer-dwelling people who also have feet. | Continue reading
I've discovered something incredible, minions: wreckerators hate zebras . It's true! Wreckerators hate zebras so much, they can't even look at them - which is why so many "zebra-striped" cakes end up looking like poop smears: | Continue reading
I thought I'd seen it all, dear minions. Heck, I HAVE seen it all. Just... not like this: | Continue reading
You're never too old to love Disney Princesses, but sometimes you reach a point where you want a little less ruffles and bows, and something a bit more elegant. | Continue reading
Tomorrow is John's and my 22th wedding anniversary, and before you ask, yes, we DID get married as toddlers. We wore onesies and tottered down the aisle to the theme from Muppet Babies . It was awesome. Anyhoo, I know what you're thinking. "Jim," you're thinking, - because … | Continue reading
I know we're all tired of 2020 memes, but this made my inner frood smile: | Continue reading
Today is National Dog Day! Quick! Make a cake effigy of your favorite pooch and slit its throat! | Continue reading
Over the weekend I slept on my neck wrong - I guess 42 years of practice just isn't enough - so to turn my head I had to move like Michael Keaton's Batman, lurching my whole torso around. | Continue reading
It's been six months since Valentines day, minions, so CLEARLY you need a refresher in romance. And CLEARLY I am the one to give it. Because CLEARLY I am a giver. (Shush, John.) So. Maybe try one of these? - Play some sexy music | Continue reading
This week John and I will be celebrating our... ::squints:: ::does math in my head:: twenty-second wedding anniversary?! Dang. I guess getting married when we were pre-teens really payed off! (Of course I'm only 32. Shhh. STOP DOING THE MATH.) The past 8 or 9 years we've bee … | Continue reading
It's "Internet Self-Care Day," minions, and isn't it ironic? Don't ya think?* [* Evil laugh, evil laugh, evil laugh ] Anyone who still has a functioning Facebook account can tell you the internet is why we NEED self-care most days. Remember when graduation cakes were a thing, … | Continue reading
"Hey, Barb, the customers are complaining your butterfly design looks too childish." | Continue reading
Hey, you know how some women kinda dread turning 40? Here's how to make it worse. | Continue reading
Wait, it's Bad Poetry Day again? Don't we have like 6 of these every year? Not that I'm complaining: I will happily torture you with my Vogon Entry Level verse any time, ya hoopy froods. A-hem hem hem. A-phlegm phlegm phlegm. ::bowing:: Thank you, thank you very m … | Continue reading
Birthday girl Jenna Claire is allergic to tree nuts. Unfortunately, this means she had to share her cake with "Trez Hats". | Continue reading
There's a growing trend to make every tier on multi-tiered cakes completely different from the others, and while I'm usually a matchy-matchy kinda girl, I gotta say, some of these are downright magical: | Continue reading
Tomorrow is National "No SpongeBob" Day, a day when all the residents of Bikini Bottom left to enjoy a day... without SpongeBob. | Continue reading
Sure, it's August. But why not? | Continue reading
In honor of World Calligraphy Day, | Continue reading
It's Resurrect Romance Week, minions, and I'm here to school you in the ways of wooing-with-cake. Trust me, there are lots of ways you can heat things up with a little frosting, IF you know what I mean. Eh? ::eyebrow waggle:: EH? ::elbow nudge:: | Continue reading
And my favorite: | Continue reading
Any Mid-Century Modern fans out there? I didn't think I was 'til I started following a few interior design folks online, and now I'm really warming up to the retro atomic-era style. It also helps when I found cakes like this! | Continue reading
Tomorrow is International Cat Day, so let's celebrate John's favorite animal EVER: | Continue reading
It's "Simplify Your Life Week," minions, and I say we start with cake. (We can also end with cake and in-between with cake, because... cake.) Now, sure, I've shown you over 15,000 wrecks on this blog, but that's no reason to think ordering a cake has to be complicated! Just keep … | Continue reading
Minions, if you want an occasion to be TRULY memorable, then only the worst will do. Do you think S.L. will be forgetting her wedding cake anytime soon? | Continue reading
It's been a rough year on all of us, minions, so as I was browsing the silly holiday calendar this week I got to thinking: Why not add more clowns? You know, grumpy clowns: | Continue reading
♫ Spider-Man, Spider-Man ♪ | Continue reading
John decided to watch the Johnny Depp Willy Wonka movie earlier this week, and I decided I was too lazy to leave the room. The movie is... fine? But I'll always prefer Gene Wilder as Wonka - even with that traumatizing boat scene. Anyway, since I wasn't really focused on the m … | Continue reading
I think I'm ready to start eating more fruit, you guys. | Continue reading
And now it's time for One-Sided Conversations With Jen. Feel free to talk to me through the screen, though. I'm sure that won't worry your family and friends at all. Anyone here remember the game Hungry Hungry Hippos? I only ask because... | Continue reading
We need modern tools for a modern age, minions. That's why I'm proposing we throw out the passé Rorschach ink blot test for psychological evaluation... and use cakes instead. "SO... [clicking pen, pushing up glasses, consulting clipboard]... "Tell me. "What do you se … | Continue reading
Val's friends ordered her a Kansas University cake, with "Go Jayhawks!" on it. There was a little mix-up with the "KU" at the top, though: | Continue reading
It's "Take Your Houseplant For A Walk Day," minion, and wow are the plants excited. | Continue reading