Post Your Worst Cake!! (Cpntinued Since After The Crash)
Decorating By ceshell Updated 13 Sep 2014 , 9:25pm by Lizzybug78
Hah. These are all great. Here's my contribution. My hubby was working out of town for New Year's a few years back. I decided to join him at the last minute, so I threw this pitiful thing together. I don't even remember the sizes of the layers, but the glass on top is about 2 inches in diameter. I have no idea what I used to bake the top layer, probably a custard cup. I obviously ran out of icing while icing it. I didn't know much about layer cakes at that point. Those are single layers, and I thought you put the layers on top of each other and THEN iced it. Yeah...
My original idea when I made the cake was to pour sparkling cider in the glass right before I showed it to him, but after it was done I realized that had disaster written all over it. I put candy sprinkles in the glass instead. It was pretty much a disaster all around.
LOL, no, my bear isn't Chewbacca!! I could only dream of raising him to that high of a level of esteem. Somewhere in the orig. thread is actually a great attempt at everyone's favorite Wookie...seriously, 80 pages to read thru...get cracking! I think Chewie was somewhere before...p 30? 40? LOL
Hawkette...your cake is really...um...creamy!
Thought I should finally show my face and post my worst cake...I have been following the previous thread (or some of it lol) and thought I should add my contribution..I don't know what I was thinking with this cake...I had wanted to try cornelli lace but didn't have a lot of time to do the cake (thank god it was for family) and my husband wanted all the piping ruby...I didn't even want anyone to take a photo of this one!!!!
well..I think the russian still winning... But we have second and third place... Who's got that place!
Keep posting them!!!
Edna
I couldn't resist... Here he is in all his hairy glory http://forum.cakecentral.com/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=18850&postdays=0&postorder=asc&&start=345
Sheesh I've gotta get some sleep now!!
Here's the second cake I did while I was taking my first Wilton course. I made it to take to a lunch at church after a canoe trip. I was so proud of it.
After I carved out the canoe I realized that it was way to small to serve everyone so I laid teh cake scraps on the board and iced them.
I guess these photos are good to look back at to see how far we've come.
OMG....you cc'ers have me laughing so hard I'm gonna pee my pants! And I'm at work!!!
I always know that when I need cheering up, all I have to do is check out this thread!
Last nite I got inspired to look through my box of pictures and couldn't find the one that could have been a good contender for at least 3rd place! Apparently it was so bad I was ashamed to take a picture of it for fear someone would eventually find it and I'd have to fess up that I actually did it!
I do have some pics of my wedding cakes that have really hideous attempts by a florist or Aunt Susie pretending to be a florist.....do those count?
OH MY...Chewbacca is a little..hmmm..can't quite find the word I'm looking for. I think he's rabid. Hawkette, I have TOTALLY done the stack then ice thing before....how embarassing. And that canoe cake...I'm killing myself over it....especially since it's on top of iced cake scraps. Hey, you win points for creativity on short notice.
OH MY...Chewbacca is a little..hmmm..can't quite find the word I'm looking for. I think he's rabid. Hawkette, I have TOTALLY done the stack then ice thing before....how embarassing. And that canoe cake...I'm killing myself over it....especially since it's on top of iced cake scraps. Hey, you win points for creativity on short notice.
I am thinkinking chewbaca takes the 2 place!..
Edna
The canoe cake was just cake balls before their time sitting on all those cake scraps.
This is my worst cake that I have a picture of. The absolute worst one I do not have a picture of and I don't even want to think about it! The worst one was going to be a teddy bear swimming pool cake for my MIL pool party. However when it fell apart I decided just to make it a dirt cake but I didn't have enough pudding and had about half a cup of white sandwich cookies to crumble on top. My MIL insisted on serving it at the party anyway. I wanted to hide at the bottom of the pool
But here's the worst with a picture. It was for my dd's 2nd birthday party last year. It's a long story but basically our fridge quit that day that I was going to make her cake. My genius but loveable DH decided to get the leaf blower to blow off the coils on the fridge inside the kitchen! Dust went everywhere and settled over everything in the kitchen about an inch thick. So I was up until 1am cleaning the kitchen and then started the cake after that. The piping is creative to say the least, the cake was so pink that you could see it glowing from heaven and the back of it decided to slide off in an attempt to avoid humiliation. The picture doesn't look that bad but it's because of creative camera angles that hide the back sliding off. We also discovered with this cake that my dd is allergic to red food dye after consuming so much pink icing. The best part is the white flowers that I made by slicing marshmallows into large circles. I will probably use that again.
I don't know how to re-size or block out her face. This is for my DD's third birthday. Iish.
Okay, another couple pictures from me! This one was a combined effort between my sister (who made the Russian cake) and myself four years ago for my little brother's birthday. She DESIGNED it, and I tried to decorate it. She wanted to try tiers. Like so many others, we didn't know about DOWELS or SEPERATOR PLATES... Nor did we know that you're supposed to ice each layer SEPARATELY. So we just stacked it, (with a thin layer of buttercream inbetween each layer) and then tried to ice it three different colors. HOWEVER, we'd mixed all the colors ahead of time, but didn't make enough of each one, and didn't want to make MORE icing. SO, as you can see with the first one, we just kind of smeared the leftover colors down the back/sides. So all the colors are kinda smeared together on the borders between layers AND in the back, LEANING badly, SO not smooth, storebought letters... Actually, about halfway through, we realized it was going to be BAD BAD BAD, so we didn't try too hard to make it smooth, because it was still gonna be hideous...
The letters actually USED to say "Happy Birthday", but we broke some, and just rearranged them, so now it says "Boy, I Had a party". We decided it looked like someone had had a "party" BEFORE the decorating phase... We laughed, little bro loved it, and we ate it all. Mmm.
OK, Here are 2 of mine.... the bad Barney was from a number of years ago when I was new at carving - poor Megan! Hope she wasn't afraid of him!
The other cake is a tiered cake from when I let the Bride's family provide "flowers" and a home-made cake topper. NEVER do that again! Oh MAN, was that UUUUGGGGGGLLLY!
YES INDEED....What is that red thing in Barney's hand? Did cracked out Barney go crazy and start eating small children? And kansaswolf....all I can say is, well, dang to have two cakes rank so highly in this group...kudos to you....I think...
Okay, another couple pictures from me! This one was a combined effort between my sister (who made the Russian cake) and myself four years ago for my little brother's birthday. She DESIGNED it, and I tried to decorate it. She wanted to try tiers. Like so many others, we didn't know about DOWELS or SEPERATOR PLATES... Nor did we know that you're supposed to ice each layer SEPARATELY. So we just stacked it, (with a thin layer of buttercream inbetween each layer) and then tried to ice it three different colors. HOWEVER, we'd mixed all the colors ahead of time, but didn't make enough of each one, and didn't want to make MORE icing. SO, as you can see with the first one, we just kind of smeared the leftover colors down the back/sides. So all the colors are kinda smeared together on the borders between layers AND in the back, LEANING badly, SO not smooth, storebought letters... Actually, about halfway through, we realized it was going to be BAD BAD BAD, so we didn't try too hard to make it smooth, because it was still gonna be hideous...
The letters actually USED to say "Happy Birthday", but we broke some, and just rearranged them, so now it says "Boy, I Had a party". We decided it looked like someone had had a "party" BEFORE the decorating phase... We laughed, little bro loved it, and we ate it all. Mmm.
All I can say is...I LOVE THE CANDLES!....
Kansaswolf, you take the cake! (As well as first and second place.) Love it! Thanks for sharing.
And I'm so glad to know I'm not to the only one who ever tried to stack a cake and then ice it.
Oh come on, are you guys SERIOUSLY gonna let my sister just WIN like that?!?!? Just kidding, but I really love this thread... I still have another cake I need to scan sometime...
Oh come on, are you guys SERIOUSLY gonna let my sister just WIN like that?!?!? Just kidding, but I really love this thread... I still have another cake I need to scan sometime...
With all due respect, I think everybody else knows that they will never compare to the Russian, so they don't even try. Just kidding... I have one that I need to scan too. Maybe I'll get around to it today. I love this thread too!
Oh my goodness! I have never laugh so hard at something on CC, till I came across this thread last night. I was laughing so hard (also went and view Chewie cake) at 2:30 am that I woke DH up (it was o.k. he had to get up for work anyway).
I have to say Russian Man is in the lead, Chewie 2nd for me...but the part I laugh the hardest at was when I saw the cake by Kansaswolf "Boy I Had A Party". With this being said on the cake... all I could think of was calling it the "Hang Over Cake" please forgive me, but I couldn't help my self I do give you & your sister credit for taking what letters you had left and making something out of them
Thanks to everyone for sharing your cakes and stories and thankgoodness everyone has a great sense of humor and can laugh at their selfs. This is a very fun thread! If I had a scanner I put some of mine up from over 26yrs ago, ones I did from about 2 yrs. of self tought decorating.Yeap, those were sad times in my decorating, teaching myself &
Thanks so much for the laughter!
God Bless,
Sharon
Ok, I can't believe I'm actually going to post this disaster again, but here goes. My husband decided on a Thursday mid-day that I should make a Star Wars cake for his buddies at work (who are all SW fans, big time). Did I mention he wanted it for the NEXT DAY?? And I had just bought the sports ball pan, so why not make it a Death Star.. oh and try your hand at the MMF, while you're at it... OMG, what was I thinking??? So, I made the sportsball cake (I think I HATE it! LOL). I made my fondant up, but didn't really have enough time for it to "rest" and I thought I'd use the leftover batter to make a small "base" cake for the DS to sit on. Oh and I thought I'd "paint" the design with vanilla and black food color (ok, that part isn't too bad). The cake was WAY to moist, and smooshed under the weight of the fondant, which was WAY to soft and stretchy and I had NO idea how to smooth out the wrinkles b/c I had too much fondant pooling at the bottom.
It is just hideous. It is OK to laugh... I do when I look at it. But to think I expected people to order a cake from me after seeing that! I'm going to make a new cake to redeem myself (though I think I did that w/the Easter cupcakes you can see in my photos.. they were a HUGE hit - not a one came home)
Kansas, you have me cracking up with that "Boy I had a party!" Creative!
I didn't think anything could beat Chewie in all of his diseased glory. Then came the Russian.
I still love the Cinderella from the old thread that had lip injections. And the freakishly large baby booties.
This is one from WAY back when. This was for my hubby's birthday. I was in a hurry and turned out the choco cake too soon so of course it broke into a million pieces. Like almost all cake cilivilans I thought frosting wold fix that. Well everyone showed up early so I had to rush it. I tried spreading the canned frosting on...no good, it tore it up even more. So I just popped it into the micro and poured it on. NOT one of my finer moments.
I know I don't have a picture of a "sponge cake" I made for my DH when he was still boyfriend. I got two sponges, iced them and presented them. He says that when he tried cutting them, he thought to himself, " Dam, this girl can't bake worth a crap!" It was funny after the fact.
he thought to himself, " Dam, this girl can't bake worth a crap!" It was funny after the fact.
I didn't know you could 'pour' store bought icing - LOL!
You know they love you when ....
WOW... ...... It looks like a ugly green rose volcano.
Oh my gosh this was so funny!! I totally laughed out loud!
Okay I laughed my way through the other thread in enough time to have entered my cake on page 80.... so it isn't lost but if you haven't seen it is the Clown fish on a platter (as someone pointed out!)
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