Ok here I go please dont laugh!!!!!!!! as I am LOL!!!! In my gallery is a green gingerbread (dont you want to be my neighbor)
ugly, ugly, ugly

are you insane??? ... I would never photograph the bad cakes ...like someone on this site said ... I eat the evidence!!! lol

cakebybek: I went to look at your gingerbread cake & saw the frog! I love him!! He is sooo adorable...now, I just need a reason to make a frog cake

Come on guys, I know we have worse cakes than this!! I'm still searching, I made a cake that was on Wilton's website...its the baby poking its head out of a package - when my husband came downstairs it freaked him out I know I have it saved somewhere.....

sofiasmami: if I ate all my ugly cakes, then I would gain 100 lbs

I just think this is so much fun...its good for us to laugh at ourselves every once in a while. Plus, I think it helps people that are new realize that everyone has bad cakes now & then, but thats part of the process.

Nati, that ball looks pretty good. Okay, so a little deflated...you should have quickly made a 3-D fondant air pump to go with it and you would have been good to go! (I've never even done a sports ball pan so no tellin' what would happen if I tried.)

Okay guys...I found the freaky baby one....

You guys just made my day!!

Here's my worst cake ever, and my first cake ever!

http://www.cakecentral.com/cake-decorating-ftopict-17779.html

This cake gave me so much trouble.. The pic I had to go by.. Nelly (R&B artist) was wearing a hoody.. When I finished the cake here as you can see with MMF as the hoody.. All the kids laughed.. They said he looked like an eskimo.. I was like" man that really sucks".. So the next morning I could not stand it. I peeled off all the MMF and just did it in Buttercream.. OMG it looked like he had a huge grey blanket around his head.. Never again will I attempt a 3d look!!!!

Gosh, Isaacsmom, I really want to help you out on those petit fours. LOL Did you freeze your cake well with the buttercream already on it before cutting and pouring the fondant? (I like to freeze mine for at least overnight! Just wrap it really good and it should be fine. Oh, and using waxed paper pressed on the buttercream top before wrapping in the saran wrap helps to get the buttercream nice and smooth. Those two things make a world of difference for me anyway. Oh, and when I cut my cake into pieces, I use a sharp (not serrated) knife wiped clean after each cut by dipping in hot water and drying with paper towel. Keeps them nice and neat. I think it would be near impossible for me to pour fondant on a cake that wasn't frozen or at least nice and chilled. Too many crumbs!

ok everyone you sucked me in.... i only have 1 pic and yes i think its terrible. For some reason when i do good cakes theres noone around to take pictures with a digital camera so i will share mine as well ...

I did this cake at Xmas. Having just watched Food Network's Gingerbread Challenge, I had all these pictures in my mind of how I wanted it to look. Of course, it didn't come out anything like those on TV! Even my 4-year-old granddaughter asked her mommy why those green little men in Santa's House (at least she could tell it was supposed to be that!) were trying to kill Santa! Then she cried and said it scared her! I actually have another "worst" cake which was my Wilton's Class Present Cake....now that was hideous but the picture is at home (I'm actually at work, working very hard)

Here is my ugly cake

I was making a 3D Dora cake and my son dropped by while I was gone and cut one of the cakes to Dora

I got so mad with him that I just turned this into the ugliest cake that I could and then gave it to him to take home

OMG this is HILARIOUS!!!!


First let me say ...I'm THRILLED to see Antonia had bad cakes too once!!!!

I looooooove this thread.....how fun!!!

ge...where's the bear...he really needs to be in here!! no offense...but this was MADE for him!!!

I have a couple on my husbands computer...as soon as I can boot him off of it I wil post them.....I know I have one of those silly rabbits with the big bowtie.....oh it was bad!!!



Stephanie.....thats your worst cake??? just get out....go....go and find a worse one...that isn't ugly cake!!!


lasting memories...I loved your hulk....please don't take any offense to this....but I read your post and then I laughed...literally out loud!!!


give me a few...I will find one for you guys to laugh at me!!!

Stephanie: I don't think you read the rules...we said worst cake!!! Just giving you a hard time, but seriously I like that one.

Twinsline: I think Teddy's more comfortable in his other thread...he's had his 15 minutes of fame Now show these guys how its done & find an UGLY cake

I posted mine already too!! I must have also been sleeping! haha it's the absolutely horrible buttercream one with the big ugly pink bow in my photo gallery!!! I HATE IT!! It was one of the first cakes I made! ahhhhh I actually pm'd Jackie to see if I could remove it but haven't heard!! Please Jackie if you see this can you get rid of it!!!! PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE haha

jdogga: You are so funny & don't you dare remove that cake!! Seriously, that is one of the nicest bows I've seen. I only wish I could make one like that. Oh, by the way your brown & pink cake with the bow is beautiful!!

Jackie if your reading please disregard jodogga's request..thank you

Okay, this is a great thread!

So the story behind this cake, I made this 3 years ago before I had any knowledge of cake decorating. Had no idea how to level or make an icing that would actually spread. Didn't have a spatula for icing, actually iced it with a rubber scraper spatula. The icing was too thin and I had no decorating bags or tips so no real borders. The writing on top was done with those already made tube icings you get at the grocery store.

The conselation is that the cake tasted amazing! Strawberry cake with strawberry cream cheese frosting! It was for my hubby for valentines day! I have always been a baker, but I have not always been a decorator!

this was my first cake I made for my wilton course 1. PS. Never let your brother do the writing on your cake! lol We had to wipe it off and make "grass" before trying it again.

This is the worst one that I actually took a picture of. I wish it was the only one, but no....

It's a CCC. I should have done a FBCT, but thought I knew what I was doing. Thanks to the camera and flash, you can actually see the outlines. In person, the cake look like a big mottled mess!

Gosh, some of your worst cakes look better than my best cake!
The worst cake I ever did was my sisters wedding cake two years ago. She was getting married for the second time to a man with the last name Shrek. So she wanted a wedding topper with the Shrek character. I did a wonderful job making the topper, but then came the cake. I didn't realize when you made a wedding cake you had to make two layers for each cake. So it was so horrible looking that everytime someone asked her who made her wedding cake at the reception, she would look at me and I would shake my head at her and give her an evil eye. She wouldn't tell them it was me. She just kind of changed the topic.
Told her she better make this marriage last, because I would never do another wedding cake again.
I was so ashamed of it, I wouldn't even take a picture of it. I will see if she happens to have one that maybe I can post, and you all can fall out of your chairs laughing at.
On the bright side though, I did the grooms cake and it looked fairly decent.
Peggy

This is fun!

Here are a few that I just can't stand:

The "Grandma" one I did when I was about 12...and it had jelly beans on the side! Oh heavens! I just don't like the top either.

The "Angela" one was one of the first I did after my 7 year hiatus...and I just think it's so ugly! I have a hard time with the heart shape and I hate the way this one turned out! By the way, my name is Angela, but this was for my sister in law, not me.

I have some real doozies, but I think I decided not to scan those . I started baking at about 7 or 8, so the cakes between then and 12 when I learned to decorate....hmmm...wouldn't be in a hall of fame anywhere!

Angela

ok ok soooooo.........you want to see bad cakes...I'll show you bad cakes.....UGLY CAKES THAT IS!!!

I couldn't post the rabbit with the silly bowtie because it also had my daughter in it......and I couldn't block out her little face because she loved that rabbit.......but here are the other winners!!!


Keep in mind this was BEFORE I had any pans....and before I realized you could make your own icing!!! hahaha.....oh heck with it...why make excuses....I SUCKED!!!

Briansbaker, I nearly wet my pants with your Nelly hoodie cake description. You are hilarious!!

This is my blue monster!!! My grandmother asked me to make a cake for her violet club, and this is what I came up with! The icing was sooooo blue and there was so much icing! Then, I find out she had wanted something very delicate and flowery!! YIKES, I guess you live and learn!

I have to say briansbaker....I laughed pretty hard too!!!



ge your strawberry shortcake got me too!!!! I laugh because you all do such a great job now!!


edited to say....so did your baby in the box!!! OMG I busted out when reading what your husband said about it!!!

I have one, but its from before i ever REALLY got into cake deco...i always liked to bake...and i did..but i never decorated...so i'll have to look for a pic

twinsline: my husband told me to throw the baby cake away because it was watching him I have to say that is the most interesting Christmas tree I've ever seen

ge978 thank you for your nice comment, I loved doing the frog.

This is the cake I did for my final in a 6 week decorating class. Yikes! I was just playing, and I wanted to a hexagon. I cut up round cakes and it looked fine before I put the border on, now it looks like a crappy circle! To think I was so proud!