Thursday Kitchen: Life is not like a cake walk...

My schedule (and my attitude problem) leave little room for cooking dinner regularly lately. What seemed to work this week was cooking a lot on Sunday and Monday evening... enough meals to last the rest of the week. There is still enough for today and tomorrow's lunch and we were even able to give some away to friends who also have little time to cook.

Therefore, my adventures with food are limited to seeing what I can get made for the week and learning about weird and wacky things. In the same vein as last week's post on food, today's comes from cake screw-ups. There's a popular blog written by a lady named Jen Yates that includes photos of professional cakes gone wrong (Here's the link to her blog if you're interested in pictures other than what I have below: Cake Wrecks).

The New York Times has taken an interest in her collection of disasters and included some pictures in a review. The photos below, some of my favorites, come from the following link: NYT

Disaster One

Aside from the fact that I have no idea what those brown chunks are, that mauve-y or -pink-y colored icing sort of... um... scares me. Not to mention, with colors like this, I don't want anyone to "lave" me... No, I do not.

Disaster Two

If you get off the phone with the young voice at the cake counter of the grocery store with a worried feeling, maybe you have good reason. People taking things too literally or people with less-than-stellar English skills cause cakes like this... not to mention, what happened to that "s" in "Congratulations"? Wonder what was supposed to be "as small as possible"... the cake? The lettering? Maybe the person wanted to write something on the cake with their own icing?

Disaster Three

Hmm... I guess they were going for "cute"... but all I see is a terrified new mother wondering what the heck happened to the poor baby...

Disaster Four

No matter how you slice it... NOT appetizing.

Disaster Five

Whether you were the crazed bride and groom obsessing over every detail, or if you were just having a small, informal affair with friends and family... I don't see any happy faces gazing upon this wedding cake.

Anyway, there are a lot more funny (and a few amazing) cakes on Jen Yates' blog. Go and at least look at the very first cakes... They are holiday desserts. There's a Halloween cake and Frankenstein is probably getting arrested for indecent exposure... So is the Thanksgiving Turkey... and Rudolph...

Eew.