Cakes!

I love cake! Birthdays, graduations, retirements, Sundays...any day is a good day for cake! The design of the cakes are equally as important as how they taste, especially if it's for a special occasion and not just a random day where you get the "cake craves", that is why my go-to comedic website is Cake Wrecks.The creator of the blog Cake Wrecks asks people to send in pictures of cakes that they ordered specifically for an event made by professional bakers. As is apparent from the title of the blog, the designs that are submitted to the blog are usually cakes of epic failures. The image below is supposed to be a Mickey Mouse cake for a child's first birthday! I think turning one year old is a pretty momentous occasion, I would certainly not pay for a monstrosity such as this.

My other favorite cakes are the ones that you see in a grocery store. Talent is really not the number one factor in hiring these people. The worst cakes are cupcake cakes where an image is made up of some cupcakes and icing. This picture I took while I was browsing the bakery section at my local Ralph's. This isn't even the worse of the cupcake cakes division, but you can kind of see what I mean with how bad it can get. I mean since when does a football look like that?

Once in a while there are actually beautiful or creative cakes that get posted on this blog and it's interesting to see the large difference in talent among the cake decorators. The design of a cake is crucial in sending a trend for the kind of occasion that you are having. A wedding cake, for example, is usually a center piece of the whole wedding and will encompass the theme of the wedding and the personality of the couple. Often a cake will show appreciation or congratulations much like giving a card would. The cake should come from your heart and a poorly executed cake definitely does not give the client what they need. Cakes are not usually a big part of our everyday lives but when an occasion is important enough to call for a cake, buying one should be a thing of excitement not of worry because you don't know what you are going to get.