Cake Wrecks Explained

Cake Wrecks
Url:http://cakewrecks.com/
Commercial:Yes
Type:Entertainment photoblog
Language:English
Owner:Jen Yates
Launch Date:May 2008

Cake Wrecks is an entertainment website featuring user-submitted photographs of professionally made cakes that are unintentionally humorous or strange in appearance.[1] [2] Founded in May 2008, inspiration for the confectionery-themed photoblog began when site-master Jen Yates received an e-mail that included a photo of a sheet cake, decorated with a customer's verbatim request: "".[1] [3]

History

Yates, a resident of Orlando, Florida, began searching for images of what she describes as "unintentionally silly, sad, creepy or inappropriate" cakes.[4] She posted the images to her new blog, Cake Wrecks, but assumed a limited supply of strange cake photography would result in the blog running out of available material. An increasing amount of "Wrecker" photos submitted by site readers revealed "cake wrecks" are inevitable in the baking industry.[1] [5] Blog entries have included photos of cakes decorated with sonogram images,[6] an image depicting sexual harassment,[4] and a message reading "".

Described as an Internet phenomenon by The New York Times, Cake Wrecks quickly gained in popularity.[1] Mary Alice Yeskey, an employee at Baltimore's Charm City Cakes and co-star of the reality television show Ace of Cakes, explained why fellow bakers visit Cake Wrecks: "Everyone in the baking business follows Cake Wrecks almost daily, if only to make sure our cakes aren't ending up on there."[1] On Sundays, in a break from Cake Wrecks' typical format, exemplary edible art creations are featured instead of "wrecks".

By the end of 2008, approximately 100,000 users visited Cake Wrecks each day and the website had received two blog awards: the 2008 Blogger's Choice Award for Best Humor Blog and the 2008 Weblog Award for Best Food Blog.[7] [8] [9] During the 2009 Weblog Awards ceremony, also known as "The Bloggies", Cake Wrecks was named Best Food Blog, Best New Weblog, and Best Writing of a Weblog.[10]

Print

In 2009, Yates compiled user-submitted photos for her book, Cake Wrecks: When Professional Cakes Go Hilariously Wrong, which debuted at No. 9 on the New York Times Best Seller list for hardcover advice.[11] [12] [13] A second book, Wreck the Halls: Cake Wrecks Gets "Festive", was published in October 2011.[14]

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Notes and References

  1. News: When the Icing on the Cake Spells Disaster . Hochman . David . October 13, 2009 . . D1 . October 14, 2009 . https://web.archive.org/web/20091104010314/http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/14/dining/14cake.html . November 4, 2009 . live .
  2. News: Someone left the cake out in the rain . Nobel . Carmen . September 8, 2008 . . boston.com . October 14, 2009 . https://web.archive.org/web/20111016005444/http://www.boston.com/lifestyle/articles/2008/09/08/someone_left_the_cake_out_in_the_rain/ . October 16, 2011 . live .
  3. News: Cake Wrecks: Icing that's not so enticing . Farquharson . Vanessa . January 16, 2009 . . nationalpost.com . October 14, 2009 .
  4. News: Cake Wrecks documents confections gone awry . Turnbull . Barbara . September 22, 2009 . . thestar.com . October 18, 2009 . https://web.archive.org/web/20090927170832/http://www.thestar.com/living/Food/article/698853 . September 27, 2009 . live .
  5. News: Cake Wrecks: A Great Site Becomes A Fantastically Gut-Busting Book . Holmes . Linda . October 5, 2009 . . npr.org . October 19, 2009 . https://web.archive.org/web/20091008233259/http://www.npr.org/blogs/monkeysee/2009/10/cake_wrecks_a_great_site_becom.html . October 8, 2009 . live .
  6. News: Your sonogram on a delicious bed of frosting . Coscarelli . Joe . July 29, 2009 . . salon.com . October 19, 2009 . https://web.archive.org/web/20091024061511/http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/2009/07/29/sonogram_cake/index.html . October 24, 2009 . live .
  7. Web site: The 2008 Weblog Awards Winners . Aylward . Kevin . January 15, 2009 . The Weblog Awards . (2008.weblogawards.org) . October 18, 2009 . https://web.archive.org/web/20091018051726/http://2008.weblogawards.org/news/the-2008-weblog-award-winners/ . October 18, 2009 . usurped .
  8. Web site: Winners . Blogger's Choice Awards . (bloggerschoiceawards.com) . October 18, 2009 . https://web.archive.org/web/20091016094408/http://bloggerschoiceawards.com/main/winners . October 16, 2009 . dead .
  9. News: The tremendous majesty of bad cake . Petrucelli . Mike . October 4, 2009 . . southbendtribune.com . October 18, 2009 .
  10. News: SXSW: Pioneer Woman Nabs Top Honors at 2009 Bloggies . Wallace . Lewis . March 16, 2009 . . wired.com . October 20, 2009 . https://web.archive.org/web/20091028054635/http://www.wired.com/underwire/2009/03/bloggies-tk-tk/ . October 28, 2009 . live .
  11. News: Pop Top: It may be a piece of cake but it sure spells disaster . Stephenson . Kathy . September 29, 2009 . . sltrib.com . October 18, 2009 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110604204949/http://www.sltrib.com/arts/ci_13439888 . June 4, 2011 . dead .
  12. News: Inside the List . Cowles . Gregory . October 18, 2009 . . nytimes.com . BR22 . October 18, 2009 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120207042456/http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/18/books/review/InsideList-t.html . February 7, 2012 . live .
  13. News: Hardcover Advice . October 9, 2009 . . nytimes.com . October 19, 2009 . Gregory . Cowles.
  14. Web site: Holmes. Linda. 'Wreck The Halls': Explore The Terrifying, Hilarious World Of Holiday Baking. Monkey See. (npr.org). July 23, 2013. https://web.archive.org/web/20130202181712/http://www.npr.org/blogs/monkeysee/2011/10/18/141455826/wreck-the-halls-explore-the-terrifying-hilarious-world-of-holiday-baking. February 2, 2013. live.

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