I love watching the evolution of cake art, and today we're going to look at some fantastically fun designs like THIS: | Continue reading
Bakers, I want you to know that I know. I KNOW. Sometimes your customers are... weird. | Continue reading
Christina B. writes: | Continue reading
It's an immutable law of nature: parents have to embarrass their kids. HAVE TO. So to show how hep and "with it" she was, Michelle asked the baker to write, "Happy 10th Birthday, Dude!" on her son's birthday cake. And did that turn out well? Well, DUH. | Continue reading
Today is the "Legal Drinking Age Day," minions, and I bet some of you might feel like celebrating. | Continue reading
Every Friday John and I pick a movie to watch and chat about online with friends from Epbot. It's been fun revisiting a bunch of our favorite films: geek classics like Back to the Future mixed in with more current gems like Spider-Man: Into The Spiderverse, which we watched t … | Continue reading
Don't you worry, minions; there are lots of ways a baker can wreck your order. Maybe they'll be a little too literal: | Continue reading
Just think: this is the *fixed* version. LOOOK OOUUUUUT!! | Continue reading
It's Bring Your Poet To Work Day, minions, a day I'm still choosing to believe is NOT a typo so that I can write bad poetry about bad cakes. My big face of ambivalence looms My small face of nonplussed disillusionment just kinda sits there | Continue reading
Technique A: The "Decorative Candy Drizzle Embellishment" Step 1. Hold container in hand: | Continue reading
To quote a wise cartoon crab, "The human world, it's a mess . Life under the sea is better than anything they've got up there!" I don't know if he's right, but this stunning hand-painted sea turtle almost has me convinced: | Continue reading
Gina's birthday is the 4th of July, so last week her hubby John ordered a patriotic cake for the occasion. The bakery had several jars of plastic decorations sitting around, so John pointed at one and asked the bakers to put "some of those stars in the jar" on the cake. Which... … | Continue reading
Christina ordered this cute owl cake: | Continue reading
Right off the bat, minions, I should tell you today's sportsball cakes are all par for the course. | Continue reading
It's "Tell The Truth" Day, minions, so remember: Sometimes you have to speak your truth: | Continue reading
And now, John's Handy Reaction Gifs. (You might want to give this post a moment to load) When I see a date like this on a cake: | Continue reading
I hope you're having a good 4th of July weekend, Sweets fans! For me and John the highlight has definitely been the premier of Hamilton on Disney Plus. Aw yeeeeah . Finally! If you haven't seen the musical that turned the world upside down yet, then I hope you get the chance … | Continue reading
Holiday weekend time, baby! Who gets to cut out early this afternoon for a long weekend? Huh? The rest of us will just be here, "working." Though to be honest, we may not have our full attention on what we're doing. | Continue reading
Because this is the kind of thing I do to amuse myself. | Continue reading
Hey bakers, you know how you all get together in shadowy back rooms and debate which new frosted horrors to unleash on your unsuspecting customers? Well, never thought I'd say this, but you've finally outdone yourselves. | Continue reading
It's America's birthday this weekend, e'erbody! | Continue reading
Happy birthday, Happy Birthday song! You know what's coming next. [loudly and off key] ♫ Haaaaaappy... ♪ | Continue reading
"Ok, staff, July 4th is coming and we need new cake designs. I'm talking stuff that screams, 'AMERICA.'" [pointing] "Jackie, GO." "Uh... butterflies?" | Continue reading
I can't decide if it's refreshingly relevant or just depressing that bakers are making such accurate 2020 cakes, minions. Or am I the only one seeing myself in these? | Continue reading
Minions, it thrills my geeky little heart to see you Agent Carter fans ordering her iconic red hat as a cake: | Continue reading
They asked for a sportsball cake that said "Way To Go!" They GOT a wedding cake that said: | Continue reading
We've all seen enough necktie cakes to last us a lifetime, right? So instead, I thought we'd celebrate Father's day with some famous dads in Pop Culture. After all, the dads on TV and in movies run the whole gamut of fatherhood. There are the dads who make us laugh: | Continue reading
Sometimes it's hard to find the words to tell Dad how much he means to you on Father's Day. Other times it's just hard to spell them. | Continue reading
So there's this hilarious wrecky outbreak happening across our nation's bakeries, but it requires a little explanation before you can truly appreciate how funny it is. Here's the deal: | Continue reading
I was so excited about today being National Photography Day, minions, and then I realized I didn't have my glasses on and it's actually Nature Photography Day. Shoot. (Get it?) So in true Wreckerator fashion, I will now blindly carry on with what I THOUGHT my calendar said, … | Continue reading
It's National Hermit Week, minions, which is hilarious since Covid has turned most of us into "prefessional" hermits. However, just in case there are still some amateurs out there, here's a handy guide: How To Celebrate National Hermit Week Step 1) Cancel all yo … | Continue reading
I played Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp on my phone for over a year, and loved every minute of it. Now everyone's playing New Horizons on the Switch, and even though I don't have it to play myself, I love it for helping so many people . Nearly everyone I know plays New Horizo … | Continue reading
And now, weird headlines. Illustrated with cake. "Crocodile Dundeeeek! Sharp-toothed reptile bites Australian man's TESTICLE." | Continue reading
Warning: "Seriously, John? You want me to put a warning on this?! This is the internet, man!" "Fine." You have been warned. Minions, I don't want you going off half-cocked today. | Continue reading
I love the movie Ghostbusters. And I'm not talking about the kind of love you have for your favorite hair product, ok? I'm talking about a card-carrying, movie-quoting, geek-crushing kind of love. Don't judge me too harshly. So when reader Corrie G. told me she had ord … | Continue reading
For some reason Courtney wasn't happy with the "mountains" she requested on her son's birthday cake: | Continue reading
And once again, everyone's* favorite: MISSED MARKS!!! (*May not be your favorite. You may prefer cakes that look like wangs. Which is totally cool. Weirdo.) Ashton H. wanted a pretty princess carriage like this: | Continue reading
Anyone else finding it hard to focus lately? This past week I've been so scattered I couldn't even settle on a theme for today's Sweets. So after hours of frustration, I gave up and decided to embrace the meanderings of my beleaguered brain. That's right, you're getting 11 hap … | Continue reading
Just when you think the age of hilarious literal cakes is over, that bakers have all caught wind of this blog and therefore wised up to writing the order instructions ON the cake... you get a glorious triple-header in one week. | Continue reading
I know what you’re thinking… | Continue reading
CW reader Tati snapped a photo of something... interesting... on display in a local bakery's window. Now, John and I have studied this thing at length (FOR SCIENCE!!), and unfortunately we can't seem to agree on what, exactly, it's supposed to be. Here's where you guys come in. … | Continue reading
Since I've got geekdom on the brain, here's a missed mark for you Doctor Who fans: | Continue reading
It's no secret I love color, and generally speaking, the brighter and bolder, the better. But today I'm featuring Sweets with as little color as possible, and in fact in my least favorite color for cakes: gray. Gray has always felt like an absence of color to me, like a desat … | Continue reading