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Extreme athlete Felix Baumgartner canceled his planned death-defying 23-mile free fall Tuesday because of high winds, the second time this week he was forced to postpone his quest to be the first supersonic skydiver.
The former military parachutist from Austria had planned to ride a pressurized capsule carried aloft by a 55-story, ultra-thin helium balloon into the stratosphere, and then jump in a specially designed suit.
But winds and delays from a lost radio and problems with the capsule contributed to the decision shortly after 11:30 a.m. to abort the mission. Because the balloon is so delicate, it could only take flight if winds were 2 mph or below.
Baumgartner said he will try again. It was unclear if that would come this week.
Baumgartner, 43, was suited up and in the capsule, when a live online video feed of the mission showed winds kicking up and whipping the balloon around. Baumgartner later got out of the capsule and was in his trailer.
The plans to launch were in question before sunrise, when winds at 700 feet above ground — the top of the balloon — were 20 mph, mission organizers said.
The balloon had been scheduled to launch about 7 a.m. from a field near the airport in a flat dusty town that until now has been best known for a rumored 1947 UFO landing.
Baumgartner was to make a nearly three-hour ascent to 120,000 feet, then take a bunny-style hop from the capsule into a near-vacuum where there is barely any oxygen to begin what was expected to be the fastest, farthest free fall from the highest-ever manned balloon.
Among the risks: Any contact with the capsule on his exit could have torn the pressurized suit. A rip could have exposed him to a lack of oxygen and temperatures as low as 70 degrees below zero. It could have caused potentially lethal bubbles to form in his bodily fluids, a condition known as "boiling blood."
He could also have spun out of control, causing other risky problems.
The energy drink maker Red Bull, which is sponsoring the feat, had been promoting a live Internet stream of the event at http://www.redbullstratos.com/live from nearly 30 cameras on the capsule, the ground and a helicopter. But organizers said there will be a 20-second delay in their broadcast of footage in case of a tragic accident.
And while Baumgartner hopes to set four new world records when he jumps, his free fall is more than just a stunt.
His dive from the stratosphere should provide scientists with valuable information for next-generation spacesuits and techniques that could help astronauts survive accidents.
Jumping from more than three times the height of the average cruising altitude for jetliners, Baumgartner's expects to hit a speed of 690 mph or more before he activates his parachute at 9,500 feet above sea level, or about 5,000 above the ground in southeastern New Mexico. The total jump should take about 10 minutes.
His medical director is Dr. Jonathan Clark, a NASA space shuttle crew surgeon who lost his wife, Laurel Clark, in the 2003 Columbia accident. No one knows what happens to a body when it breaks the sound barrier, Clark said.
"That is really the scientific essence of this mission," said Clark, who is dedicated to improving astronauts' chances of survival in a high-altitude disaster.
Clark told reporters Monday he expects Baumgartner's pressurized spacesuit to protect him from the shock waves of breaking the sound barrier. If all goes well and he survives the jump, NASA could certify a new generation of spacesuits for protecting astronauts and provide an escape option from spacecraft at 120,000 feet, he said.
Currently, spacesuits are certified to protect astronauts to 100,000 feet, the level former Air Force Capt. Joe Kittinger reached in his 1960 free-fall record from 19.5 miles. Kittinger's speed of 614 mph was just shy of breaking the sound barrier at that altitude.
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Most people are clear on which type of gas their car needs. But not as many are clear on the differences between regular and premium gas.
Why use regular instead of premium gas?
One obvious difference is the price.
According to the U.S. Energy & Information Administration, premium fuel nationally averages about 60 cents more per gallon than regular gasoline, and 25 cents more than midgrade gas.
What is the difference in octane levels?
Octane is how much compression a fuel can withstand before igniting, or rather it's a measurement of a fuel's ability to avoid knock. Gas stations typically carry three octane grades. State laws regulate which octane levels can be listed as premium, midgrade, or regular. Typically "regular" gas is 87 octane, "midgrade" is 89 octane, and over 91 octane is "premium" gasoline. Some states label top-tier gasoline with 93 octane as "ultra" gas.
Can I switch from premium to regular gas?
Cars are designed to run best with a specific type of fuel.
A higher octane gas won't ignite as quickly, which explains why high-performance cars with high compression engines often require higher octane gas. Engines that take higher octane fuel tend to work more efficiently and emit less emissions and exhaust.
It is important to use the required octane for your specific car. Using the right octane level can prevent damage to your car's engine and help it run at maximum efficiency.
If you use a lower than recommended level, the gas may combust too fast for your engine. That can cause the engine to make a knocking noise. In addition to this unwanted noise, a lower than recommended gas can also reduce your car's power and fuel economy and cause engine damage.
When it comes to the opposite—using a fuel with a higher octane rating than recommended—the risk of danger is lower. The general consensus is that using premium gas when your car can run on regular gas doesn't deliver any extra benefits when it comes to engine life, fuel economy, or reduced emissions.
If your engine uses higher compression ratios, typically you will need to use higher octane-rated gas. Your owner's manual will let you know what gas is best for your car model, or you can look inside your fuel door: it should have a sticker showing your car's fuel requirements.
If your car requires premium fuel, the sticker will read "Premium Unleaded Fuel Only" as well as the octane level required; some models will simply note "Premium Fuel Recommended."
Can you mix premium and regular gas?
Mixing different octanes doesn't improve your car engine's performance. It is best to stick with the manufacturer's recommendation for peak performance.
Does premium gas last longer?
If your car's manual simply states "premium" or "premium recommended," you may want to test the different premium levels to see how your car's performance changes. You can do this by getting your gas tank to the quarter level, or lower, and fill up with one of the premium grades. Keep a log to track of your gas mileage while driving with the different premium gas octanes. Test the different octane levels and pay attention to how your car feels and sounds while driving; also note any differences in acceleration rate.
To improve your car's overall performance, drive it more efficiently. For example, don't floor the gas when taking off from a red light or stop sign. When driving long distances, drive at a consistent fashion without making quick accelerations.
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Finney Crossing Apartments, Chittenden County's newest residential development, offers a true neighborhood living experience with a mix of apartments, condominiums and single family homes. It is located in a natural setting with spectacular views of the Green Mountains and the Adirondacks. Our apartments are upscale and spacious, offering a living experience unlike anything else in the area. Finney Crossing is within walking distance of restaurants, shopping, grocery stores, theaters and as well as other businesses and services and is just minutes from exit 12 on I-89, the airport and the hospital. Williston's wonderful bike path runs right through our development for those who wish to get a little exercise or simply enjoy the area.
Each unit has a bright open floor plan, 9 foot ceilings, hardwood floors, wall to wall carpet, energy star-rated appliances, quality finishes, modern design, large closets, washer/dryer hook ups, individual storage units and a private balcony. Rent includes heat, hot water, trash and recycling removal, secure entry, common area cleaning, snow and lawn care, elevator access and underground and surface parking and bicycle storage.
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We offer a Free quote and UK design service, get in touch today.
We have a huge selection of various services or products including tennis court line marking in Aylburton GL15 6 for your school or residence.
By offering an array of tennis court services and markings we are able to enable you to construct and maintain the ideal tennis court surface which will stay in great condition for a long period.
We will go into detail regarding the unique techniques and will clarify the assorted different choices you have available to you. Fill out the enquiry form provided and we'll be in touch shortly with more information on sports court line marking paints.
The manufacturing procedure for any tennis court will be different in length because of a number of different factors.
There are a number of variables and extra features which can be included in the preformed tennis court installation process, these might be secure fencing, colourful coatings and specialist floodlighting.
The very first stage is being sure that the client has chosen a design and style from the various playground line markings we offer that they are happy with, this includes both aesthetics and functionality of the tennis courts.
It's important to take into account all the available choices when installing a brand new sports facility to make sure that it suits the design and features of line markings you are searching for.
Prior to the surfacing being fitted, a suitable sub-base must be laid out to provide the facility an effective and durable foundation which will last over the court's lifetime.
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GET IN TOUCHThe porosity of your facility wouldn't be up to standard without angular stone because it makes certain water passes instantly through and doesn't end up flooding the surfacing.
Once we have fitted the stone sub base layer, the next stage for a tennis court should be to construct an application of macadam on top of the stone to produce a smooth and even tennis court surface.
When the area has become specified to get surfaced with macadam then no other structure works must be completed, however for tennis courts with other surfacing options and white line marking that specific surfacing choice will have to be laid down next.
The variety of tennis court surfacing types we have easily available includes polymeric rubber crumb, synthetic sand-filled turf and man-made clay, each of these can be installed onto macadam.
The price of your playground tennis courts may vary depending on the surface type also, the general size and dimensions of your own facility and the preformed line markings you desire.
If you'd like to have a play area tennis facility in your closest area in Aylburton specified to a professional standard then there are strict dimensions which need to be followed.
If you aren't going to use the facility for expert or highly competitive games you are able to reduce prices and costs by installing a smaller sized area.
Does line marking require maintenance?
As soon as the sports playground is completed, it's crucial that you set up a regular maintenance and cleaning plan to keep your play area and line markings safe and keep effective playing qualities.
Maintenance needs to be done both on a regular basis in addition to being an aftercare process to correct any deterioration of the preformed line markings.
Carrying out regular servicing on your surface in Aylburton GL15 6 will help to reduce any kind of damage make certain that the facility is as safe as is possible throughout the year.
We are able to complete a selection of proactive maintenance services for your play area including drag brushing of artificial turf to clear out contaminants and dirt from between the carpet fibres.
We can also jet clean hard tennis courts to eradicate any debris, moss, and algae from your surface.
Debris on the playground surface can bring about moss and algae growth which obstructs up the pores in the flooring and leads to water drainage problems as water can't pass through.
If the facility loses its permeable features then the surface will begin to hold onto water, which makes it slippery and unsafe for use.
Aftercare maintenance can be implemented to mend problems like this through repairs, rejuvenations, and repainting to regenerate the first performance qualities.
We completely suggest to all new and current customers that they create a routine maintenance program with their thermoplastic playground facilities to ensure they manage to get their money's worth making the different prices and costs worthwhile.
We recommend repainting and line marking your court every 2-3 years.
Contact us today regarding your sports court white line marking by filling out the form provided to find out more details.
Clients may have complete power over the colour scheme and style of a facility. Specialist preformed line markings can be applied to the surface in coloured paint to provide the facility appropriate performance dimensions.
The paint which we use for the playground preformed line markings and also the base covering is fitted with an anti-slip aggregate that significantly increases both the playing and performance qualities.
By utilising a skilled specialist contractor to accomplish the painting on your tennis court Pre-emptive maintenance is the better way to stop your play area in Aylburton GL15 6 from becoming worn out and losing its anti-slip properties.
Without routine maintenance, the paint could also lose its slip resistant features causing it to become dangerous for use.
Line marking will be installed after the painting has been completed.
We pride ourselves on our enormous and diverse number of totally different surface types and line marking paint designs that give totally different qualities for your facility in Aylburton GL15 6 dependent upon what you need.
One of the most predominant surface kind that we install is macadam surfaces which is stone mixed with a tar material that creates a permeable surface because it's perfect for many facilities including tennis courts and playgrounds.
Many organizations like clubs and primary schools https://www.preformedplaygroundmarkings.co.uk/education/primary-school/gloucestershire/aylburton/ choose the macadam tennis surface as it is convenient enough to get used for other sports and can utilise many different thermoplastic markings to create sport based play areas, and is additionally extremely long lasting and strong.
Yet another specification which is used for playground facility surfaces and tennis court facilities is EPDM rubberized flooring with preformed thermoplastic line markings.
This particular spec comprises of coloured EPDM rubber granules which gets mixed with a specialist binder, this mixture will then be applied on top of a prepared macadam sub base.
For each and every local facility that has a hard surface, an anti-slip blend paint will have to be installed followed by sports court line marking paint to enhance the safeness and performance features of a facility.
Coloured tennis court line marking paint will also be painted on the tennis court surfacing in colourings which you decide on for tennis as well as any alternative activities you would want to use the area for.
As well as the hard courts, sand filled sports court, synthetic turf can easily also be used as a top quality surfacing for tennis court facilities, the different surface type you use will effective the costs and price of the job.
These synthetic turf surface types are going to be installed with a specialized sand infill between the fibers to guarantee the best possible performance or either a needlepunch surface or 2G carpet.
The tennis courts which have surfacing, for instance, synthetic grass may also be used for other sports such as football and netball dependent on line markings, which makes it ideal for schools with limited space.
Look here - https://www.preformedplaygroundmarkings.co.uk/sports/muga/gloucestershire/aylburton/ to see how you can transform your surrounding areas into a MUGA.
Before you start the tennis court construction at your organisation, it is recommended that you think of the design and price range you wish to spend.
Through working out your budget you'll be able to decide on a spec and design and style much easier, and we will help produce the best facility for you personally whilst guaranteeing you remain within your budget.
Fill out the enquiry form provided and we will get back to you as soon as we can.
Performing local regular tennis court cleaning in Aylburton GL15 6 is very important in ensuring that the surrounding area remains safe and you prevent damage to the thermoplastic line marking paint wherever possible.
There is a selection of tennis court cleaning techniques which you can use to eliminate dirt and impurities from the surfacing and line markings.
An everyday pressure wash and brushing operation is one of the most widespread rejuvenation methods for playgrounds or play areas that are created from tarmac or EPDM polymeric rubber surfacing.
Impurities and junk can cause a massive variety of problems for the facility and the preformed line markings; this is the reason it's important to stop these problems with this particular method before they are able to trigger any long term damage.
For man-made pitch tennis court surfaces, the rejuvenation will include things like cleaning through the man-made fibres and deep cleansing within the sand infill, as well as frequent rejuvenations to remove the sand and change it.
Expert methods are employed on both hard tennis court surfaces and synthetic turf to lessen the expansion of moss and algae and thus stop any issues with water drainage.
Upkeep and regular restoration is critical in making without doubt your playground thermoplastic line markings safe to make use of all through the year, regardless of weather conditions.
You can find out more about our external surfaces here - https://www.preformedplaygroundmarkings.co.uk/flooring/external/gloucestershire/aylburton/ or speak to our experts today who can give you everything you need to know.
If the nearby facility is impaired, performing repairs is a valuable part of making certain your facility is going to be safe in the future.
If you make sure to be practical when examining your facility for any damages, rips and tears it'll make sure that you can counteract the harm before it's far too late.
Repairs can be accomplished to mend these issues in Aylburton GL15 6 by filling in holes with an emerald rock mixture, carrying out a comprehensive clean to aid drainage, and applying a new covering of anti slip paint.
These issues may be fretting to a macadam surface, small crevices or divots, shortage of water drainage or washed out paint and line marking.
Many different techniques may be employed to aid counteract these issues such as applying a fresh coating of anti-slip paint or sealing cracks in.
You should make sure to execute reactive maintenance and repairs to a flooded or slippery tennis court surface to prevent any accidental injuries to individuals playing on the facility.
If tennis court complications like this are located and dealt with promptly they may be easier than you think to mend, if however not treated they are able to develop and probably result in a resurface being required.
If you don't perform repairs then your facility in Aylburton could get to the point where a high priced full-sized resurfacing job is necessary to fix the sports court and then make it dependable again.
Please get in touch with our team today for a quote to apply tennis court line marking in Aylburton GL15 6 at your school or club. We'll assess the costs and come up with an affordable price for your project.


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Introduction to Charts
You can create unlimited combinations of Symbols and Chart settings for easy retrieval across all of your devices and locations.
Click 'Customize Chart Studies' to open or close the chart customization panel.
In the customization panel you can save chart versions and make copies. If you are viewing one of your existing Charts click 'Apply Changes' to save or 'Copy' to build an additional Chart based on the one currently on display.
Get Charts and Searches
Enter one or more Symbol Ids separated by commas and click 'Get Chart(,s)' to display the charts.
For example, to display a Chart for Apple enter AAPL. And to display side-by-side charts for Apple and Facebook enter AAPL,FB.
If you are ensure of a Symbol Id, enter some of the company name in the box, Eg Apple, and click 'Search'.
Customize Chart Studies
Click 'Customize Chart Studies' to open or close the Charts customization panel.
Charts consist of one or more Areas. The first Area is primarily reserved for the price Plot. And you can add additional Areas as you wish.
Click 'Overlay indicator' to add an additional Plot to an existing Area. For example, you may be showing Candlesticks in the first Area. You could then add an additional Plot to overlay a moving average. Use the Up and Down buttons to re-arrange the Plot order within the Area.
To add a completely new Area click 'Add indicator to new area'. For example, you may have a Chart with two existing Areas for Candlesticks and Volume. To add MACD, click 'Add indicator to new area', select MACD, close the details popup, and then 'Apply...' and the Chart will be extended to show MACD.
To adjust the settings of an existing Plot just click on the Plot to display the details popup. For example, to change a Plot containing EMA(50) to EMA(100), first click on EMA(50), change the Period to 100, and click an 'Apply...' button to save.
Change Chart Duration and Period
Click the duration settings button, Eg 'Daily 6 Months' directly above the Charts to change the chart Duration or Period.
Quick links are provided for Months and Years. For example, click on 3 Months to see a Chart covering that duration.
You can also choose specific dates using the Custom Date Range selector. If you set the From Date only and leave the To Date, the Chart will automatically extend for each new day.
Quick links are provided for the chart Period. For example, click 'Weekly' to see Weekly bars on the Chart.
Resize Charts
To change the size of Charts, hold your mouse pointer over the triangle icon at the bottom right of the first Chart and drag to the required size and let go.
If your device does not support this action you can adjust the size via the 'Settings' panel.
Add Trend Lines
Trend lines are used to show and monitor trends in a stock price.
They can help to show downward or upward trends and to monitor for trend breaks. This site allows you to add your own free-hand trend lines which will then show on any Chart for that stock.
Trend lines cannot be added when there are multiple Charts shown. To enable Trend lines ensure there is one Chart only on display.
To add a trend line just click 'Add Trend Line'. After a short pause you will see a horizontal line with two small end boxes. First drag one of the ends into the appropriate place. And then move the ends in turn until the line is drawn correctly. Click 'Save Changes' when done.
Chart Areas
A trend line has to be contained within the Price Area or a Study Area. On the first move of the end box make sure you drop it on the required area as it will be contained within that area thereafter. If you get it wrong just clear and start again.
Trend Line Attributes
Saved lines will appear on all Charts for the symbol provided that the chart is shown with the same Period setting.
Adjust Global Chart Settings
Click the 'Settings' button directly above the Charts to change global chart settings.
Settings are available for Price Bar Color, Volume Bar Color, Logarithmic Price Scale, Cross-hairs, and Empty Bars.
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Tuesday, September 16, 2008
Cupcake Cakes: Always Wrecktastic. Always.
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
Hi, my name is Jen, and I hate cupcake cakes.
Why? 'Cuz they're ugly.
Don't believe me? Keep reading.
For Shara's birthday her son asked the baker to make a "happy monkey cake" ala Curious George. Now, as a reminder for those of us who haven't watched Saturday morning cartoons in a while, here's what Curious George looks like:
And here's what Shara got for her birthday cake:
So apparently what the decorator heard was "Curious George after he's been flattened by a cement truck". That, or maybe he/she was going for an homage to Teen Wolf:
After he was flattened by a cement truck.
Yes, I understand that in concept these things are great: no clean-up, equal portions, blah blah blah, but in execution I've yet to see a nice one that wouldn't give you blue poo.
Wait - I have to take that back. If you happen to want a skinned Spiderman face, then you're going to love Alyson B.'s birthday cake:
All it's missing are little pegs holding down the edges of his mask. (Yeah, let's call it a mask; that's less disturbing than "face skin".)
Or how about this appetizing little number?
According to Mei L., this is supposed to say "Ojai! It's worth the drive!". Now, I would love to ask what the heck "Ojai" is, but I'm way too distracted by the poo souffle on the bottom. Honestly, this thing is in serious competition with the moldy camo cake in my "dry-heave-inducing" category.
What's that? You're still not convinced that cupcake-cakes are always wreckalicious? Oh, I get it: you're saying these designs have been too complicated, right? That a simpler design would look better?
Something, for example, like this?
Ah, you're right. This IS better. I mean, "round" is a concept obviously beyond the decorator's grasp, but at least she stuck with plain white frosting. Nik P. was the manager on duty at the bakery where this was ordered (and subsequently rejected). He writes, "As the manager on duty, I immediately took the appropriate action: I took a picture to post on the internet."
I like your thinking, Nik.
Have I convinced you yet? No? Ok, my last argument, at least for today's post:
Monique R. sent in this "creative" gem taken by Jen S. You can see that Pokey's head was obviously tacked on as an afterthought: it's not even on the cake board. Plus, the angle of his face makes it look like someone twisted his unnaturally long neck 180 degrees; last I checked, turtles don't walk around facing the sky. From the giant American flag he's resting on, I would assume this was taken around the 4th of July or Memorial Day, both holidays known for their inclusion of... turtles. Erm. Yeah.
Come to the Cupcake-Cake-Hating-Side. We have real cakes.
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«Oldest ‹Older 1 – 200 of 253 Newer› Newest»- Mel said...
Ojai is a town in California. It's where Jamie Sommers was from.
- September 16, 2008 at 9:18 AM
The Ojai, it looks like it's made out of meat. Tasty cake indeed.
- September 16, 2008 at 9:22 AM
- lilacsigil said...
Well, I've never seen a cupcake cake in real life, and...now I don't want to! Thank you for today's dose of enlightenment.
- September 16, 2008 at 9:26 AM
- Mad Izatie said...
wow, that's alot of icky cake designs.
- September 16, 2008 at 9:28 AM
- Andrea Frederick said...
I am a teacher and loathe cupcake cakes. Have you ever tried to pass them out? It's like having a shelf of overhanging frosting oozing around your hand as you pick up each cupcake. Ewwww....and usually in kindergarten it's some charming color that will make your hand and mouth neon for a couple of days. Thanks for posting to readers everywhere what a wreck the cupcake cake can be! Whew...I feel better!
- September 16, 2008 at 9:30 AM
- Unknown said...
The "Ojai" cake is making me nauseous.
No, really. - September 16, 2008 at 9:33 AM
- Ann Hedvig said...
That's all I've got to say about these.
And I'll join the club of not liking CupCake cakes...... - September 16, 2008 at 9:35 AM
- Jodi said...
These cakes are a great way to kick start a new diet. I actually don't crave cake after looking at them.
- September 16, 2008 at 9:38 AM
- *Michelle said...
Creepy monkey thing!!! It could also be a really screwy beast (ala Beauty and the Beast). Maybe the spiderman one was a party in the theme of bad guys win? I wholehearted agree with the cupcakes are not a cake substitute.... but the last one is kinda cute! It would be nice if his head wasn't about to fall off... but at least it doesn't have an EWWW factor.
- September 16, 2008 at 9:38 AM
- Judge said...
Aaaaand where your argument fails:
http://images.quickblogcast.com/5/2/4/9/0/117208-109425/VanGoghEcard.gif - September 16, 2008 at 9:38 AM
I loved this cake, which was on the cover of the Jan 04 issue of Gourmet, I think. It got flack from readers that it was cliche and not gourmet, though. I think this is the way to do a cupcake cake.
Speaking of cupcakes, I was appalled to see these cupcakes on the cover of Bon Appetit, and am surprised that no one else seems to have noticed: white cupcake, pale pink circle with red raspberry center? They're boob cupcakes! - September 16, 2008 at 9:40 AM
Ojai is a city in southern California, a couple hours out of LA.
I've never thought that it's worth the drive, though... - September 16, 2008 at 9:41 AM
OK, you've convinced me! I was just about to suggest a cupcake cake for my 4 year old's birthday next month. I've been scared straight!!
Love your blog and read it everyday when I'm supposed to be working! - September 16, 2008 at 9:41 AM
- Chelsea said...
Not only are they generally ugly and deformed, they're also annoying to make many times...((I was a decorator at Albertsons for nine months...I've made my share)). Though, the baseball one CAN be done successfully...I've made many...all these other designs are awful. I don't understand why people don't just buy...cupcakes. I mean I've made a Spiderman-themed cupcake for my pastor's kid...it had red and blue frosting and a white frosting web on it...Simple, yet decidedly more appetizing than eating what's left of Spidey after a scalping...
-Chelsea C. - September 16, 2008 at 9:41 AM
- Michael said...
I don't think it was "worth the drive" to get that horrible Ojai "cake".
/rimshot - September 16, 2008 at 9:44 AM
Conversation with my three year old...
D: Mommy, look, it's Curious George
Me: Yes, Baby.
D: (looking at cupcake cake meant to be George) Hey, that's not George. What is that?
Me: laughing out loud! - September 16, 2008 at 9:44 AM
Cupcake cakes don't work for me either, but I'm not sure you can blame cupcakity for the Ojai cake. That would look horrible on any foundation. In fact, my first reaction was, "why did someone try to make a cake representing the aftermath of Hurricane Ike?" No, I'm serious: my second reaction was, "oh, someone's celebrating they're still alive" (misreading "drive") "so I should cut them a break for managing to make a cake at all under the circumstances." And I'm not making light of the disaster: my point is that a cake that evokes such a disaster is truly bad.
My sympathies and good wishes to those who have been affected by Ike, and if I could send y'all cake, I would. - September 16, 2008 at 9:46 AM
- Rachel said...
LOL!! Wow, I don't do this professionally, but I made a Curious George cake that wasn't nearly that scary for my 2-year old's birthday....cupcakes were only used as his ears.
- September 16, 2008 at 9:46 AM
- Chris said...
I love your site!
By the way, Ojai is a city in California. It's rather far from most centers of civilization, but it's also quite beautiful.
Chris - September 16, 2008 at 9:50 AM
Wow, those are some pretty awful wrecks, but the Spider Man one isn't TOO bad. If they would have made is less of a ball and more of an oval, I think it would be a bigger hit, but cupcakes aren't cakes for a reason, haha!
- September 16, 2008 at 9:54 AM
- Trudi said...
No, they are not. The ones you have featured have always been hideous, but I know many professional bakers, including myself, who make very beautiful cupcake cakes. Don't believe me? I'd be glad to provide photographic proof!
- September 16, 2008 at 9:55 AM
Now, now... let's not malign cupcakes. Cupcakes are fabluous... individually. I've even seen some amazingly well decorated cupcakes. Just never in packs. I guess the lesson here is that we should be vigilant against cupcake gangs... the poor dears, they're fine on their own, it's when the get all bunched up that bad things happen to good cake.
- September 16, 2008 at 9:56 AM
- Ruth said...
You know, I was on the fence about cupcake cakes, but I think you've pushed me off onto the disliking side. Thank you for enlightening me!
- September 16, 2008 at 9:56 AM
Oh, these are just sad.
There is never any reason for a cupcake cake. - September 16, 2008 at 9:56 AM
Ok, I have to revise my previous remark. The Ojai cake would be ugly on any foundation, but the lumpiness and irregularity of the cupcake base are definitely making a contribution to this cake's resemblance to a wrecked beach area.
Also, though I know that Ojai is a place, I feel that there is probably some sort of lolcats joke to be made here, but I have to go to work now. - September 16, 2008 at 9:57 AM
Ojai is a city in California, somewhat north of LA in the Ojai Valley. My husband and I went there last year. It was nice, but I don't remember anything similar to the 'poo souffle'...
Also, if you are relying on a cupcake cake to market your city, you might want to find a baker than can actually make people want to visit. - September 16, 2008 at 10:04 AM
- The Creeper said...
I hate cupcake cakes. Hate them. So much so that I even nixed the idea when it was presented for our annual recognition dinner.
Trust me, I was as tired of handing out pre-cut cakes as the next board member (have you discussed the pre-cut cake yet? what a disaster those are), but at least I was in my right mind when I suggested we go with a catered dessert. - September 16, 2008 at 10:05 AM
- Wendy said...
OK, OK I will convert! I no longer serve cupcake cakes at my kids birthday parties! :)
- September 16, 2008 at 10:06 AM
Please tell me someone did NOT pay $14.99 for that turtle "cake"....I mean I could make the same thing for $6 if I wanted too LOL!!!! *shakes head*....hopefully the taste out shadows the fugliness.
- September 16, 2008 at 10:07 AM
Ojai is a city in the Ojai Valley in Ventura County, California. I'm sure it's much prettier than the cake might otherwise suggest.
- September 16, 2008 at 10:08 AM
- MeganDean said...
*note* Ojai is in California :).
- September 16, 2008 at 10:13 AM
That Curious George - wow. That wasn't even in the same species as what the client wanted. Why can't decorators just leave cupcakes alone? Think of the cupcakes!
- September 16, 2008 at 10:15 AM
- Unknown said...
Ojai is some town in California I believe, pronounced "oh hi".
Some of us from back in the paleolithic era have vague memories of Jamie (the bionic woman) being from there...
crickets.... - September 16, 2008 at 10:16 AM
Oh, they're all so horrible!
Ojai, btw, is a city in California. But it doesn't look like a lumpy pile of cupcake poo! - September 16, 2008 at 10:17 AM
That "monkey" cake is the freakiest thing I have ever seen! Seriously, what the heck?!
- September 16, 2008 at 10:22 AM
Ojai is a small town in California. It's really pretty. I grew up there. But that cake is NOT. Pretty that is.
- September 16, 2008 at 10:24 AM
Ugh! I am TOTALLY with you on the cupcake cake hating thing. I remember when I first saw one of those hideous things in my local grocery store...I just thought, "Oh no. I hope this doesn't become a trend." *Sigh...* It did. Blech.
-M - September 16, 2008 at 10:24 AM
FYI: Ojai is a town in southern California. - September 16, 2008 at 10:26 AM
oh my. the poo souffle. wow. i mean if the brief was "make a cake that looks like it's crafted from poop" that cake would win gold in the poop cake olympics.
- September 16, 2008 at 10:27 AM
- Bri said...
I think these are, by far, the best (worst?) I have seen here! Excellent!
I can't tell if the Curious George or the Ojai! is more disturbing... - September 16, 2008 at 10:28 AM
- Shirky said...
that Ojai cake looks familiar! is it the same design as a different wreck from before?
the curious george cake is Too Much. - September 16, 2008 at 10:29 AM
Well, the cupcake cakes are good to take to school on your kid's birthday. They don't allow cake because of all the utensils and plates needed.
At least with cupcake cakes, they can get something decorated. 6 year olds don't care if it is 'ugly' ;) - September 16, 2008 at 10:30 AM
Cupcake poo!
- September 16, 2008 at 10:31 AM
I love the pseudo-Curious George! How hideous is that? I can't imagine what part of "Happy Monkey" the decorator was envisioning!!!
By the way, just so you know, Ojai is a little town in California, East of Ventura, which is about 2/3 of the way from L.A. to Santa Barbara. I used to work at a camp in Ojai. It's incredibly beautiful and definitely "worth the drive". However, not if I have to eat that cake!
-Anita in San Diego - September 16, 2008 at 10:31 AM
- Lildonbro said...
I'm a cupcake cake hater as well. They never look appetizing to me.
- September 16, 2008 at 10:32 AM
- V. Nicharico said...
All I can even think to say is "WHAT are these decorators thinking?!"
- September 16, 2008 at 10:33 AM
Okay the one cake looks similar, and I use that loosely, to the one cupcake cake that said Farewel 6th Grades!!! Only this one looks like it has melted LOL!
- September 16, 2008 at 10:33 AM
- Overmatter said...
The first one looks like Eric Stoltz in that movie "Mask."
- September 16, 2008 at 10:33 AM
- Topaz said...
Ojai is a town in California. It's northeast of Santa Barbara and northwest of Ventura.
Pam - September 16, 2008 at 10:34 AM
- Etiquette Bitch said...
hi jen! okay, i too was at first skeptical of your cupcake-cake-hatin'. I love to make cupcakes, but, honestly, would never attempt a full-on cake. it looks like a pain in the a**. anyway, Ojai is some tropical place, I believe, but I thought the "Ojai" cake was a celebration of someone learning how to drive. I thought it said, "O Jen! It can drive!" or something to that effect.
- September 16, 2008 at 10:35 AM
- The Cochran Family said...
Ojai is a city in California. It's quite cute too, so the cake just ruins it...
- September 16, 2008 at 10:37 AM
- Kim said...
Ick! That George one is awful, well most of them are.
I've seen some cupcakes done beautifully actually and I have liked those.
These, however, are terrible. - September 16, 2008 at 10:43 AM
Oh my goodness..... they really are the worst! I love this blog - it is such fun! Thanks so much!
- September 16, 2008 at 10:45 AM
- Rachel said...
C'mon, get it right: Easton is a bat, Rawlings is a baseball. Seriously, it cracks me up to hear of a kid named Easton, especially in conjunction with bat-and-ball sports. The produce manager at my old work was a HUGE softball weekend-warrior dude, and it surprised NO ONE when he named his boy Easton.
Although I guess it could be worse, I have heard of kids named Espn (pronounced "ess-pin") - September 16, 2008 at 10:48 AM
- Alice said...
here's one more reason not to like cupcake cakes.... http://www.bluerosecakes.com/images/cupcakeCake.jpg
Though I have to say as an amature decorator and lover of cupcakes these wrecks only inspire me to create the most pretty and non weird or poo dying cupcake cake ever...well maybe not ever but that I've ever seen... - September 16, 2008 at 10:51 AM
- sues2u2 said...
I have only seen one cupcake "cake" that I liked. It was a Christmas tree & decorated individually. Turned out so darling. Too bad I forgot to take a pix, eh?
- September 16, 2008 at 10:56 AM
The Ojai wreck almost put me off breakfast. I'm sitting here eating a bagel w/veggies & bacon, licking the green avocado mush off my fingers whilst staring at the wreck and being reminded of the catbox poo I'd scooped an hour earlier. Bleh. Don't like the overuse of icing with cupcake cakes, but I have made some decent pixel/8-bit cupcake groupings. Sorry, no pics. Admired, eaten, then back to console to help Mario kick monkey-butt
- September 16, 2008 at 10:56 AM
I thought the same thing as a previous post...that Ojai cake is the same design as the Farewel 6th Grades cake...just horribly done. Looks like it's been left in a hot car.
- September 16, 2008 at 10:57 AM
- ari brown said...
if someone gives you a cupcake cake, you really need to think about what you did to make them not like you. real friends give you real cakes, or cupcakes that are appreciated for what they are. cupcake cakes are just cruel.
- September 16, 2008 at 11:02 AM
Ok, I had never heard of cupcake cakes til I got here...but I think they are hidious...and lazy. How hard is it to cut cake in similar sized pieces. I'm no rocket scientist and I can manage it. As for the 'Curious George' cupcake fiasco, that looks more like the thing that those guys tried to pass off as the Bigfoot they captured this summer. Icky.
- September 16, 2008 at 11:04 AM
- kelli said...
I hereby solemnly swear that I will never attempt to make a cupcake cake. I wonder how those kiddies are holding up after seeing the Spiderman and Curious George cakes? I see nightmares in their futures.
- September 16, 2008 at 11:05 AM
- Hyla said...
LMAO! yucko!
http://earthyfinds.blogspot.com - September 16, 2008 at 11:09 AM
thanks kansas girl, now i've got visions of lolcat cupcake cake dancing through my head. still less disturbing than the poo-ffle, though.
- September 16, 2008 at 11:10 AM
- turbidity said...
These aren't quite cupcake cakes, but they all go together to form a game: Cupcakes of Catan! http://www.flickr.com/photos/quintanaroo/sets/72157594450089446/
I think they're quite clever. - September 16, 2008 at 11:15 AM
- clueuin said...
Cupcakes at a party: O.k you've convinced me. Heck, no!
Cupcakes in general: Via Va la Cupcakes! (Umm, that a yea.)
Horrible Spiderman, Hurrendous Curious George, Not bad Baseball cupcake.(Though question: Why not done individually?)
O.k, O.k, I get it now! Ojai is a small town in California. Enough already! Shessh!
Clueuin - September 16, 2008 at 11:16 AM
- Christine said...
Ojai is definitely not worth the drive. Do you know how far away it is even from L.A.'s boonies? Bleh. Also that Van Gogh cupcake cake someone posted is amazing!
(http://images.quickblogcast.com/5/2/4/9/0/117208-109425/VanGoghEcard.gif) - September 16, 2008 at 11:18 AM
@ the anonymous at 10:30 - No, cupcake cakes *aren't* good things to send to your kid's school for a birthday party. Decorated cupcakes are, but the cupcake cakes add this thick layer of frosting that extends past the cupcake and leads to hideous messes (and often stained fingers).
Decorated cupcakes. No utensils, no plates, infinitely less of a frosting mess. - September 16, 2008 at 11:20 AM
- Hippy Goodwife said...
gah! I loathe cupcake cakes. What a stupid idea. Don't get me wrong. I love cupcakes and I love cake cakes. But they are not meant to be together. Lovely wrecks BTW.
- September 16, 2008 at 11:21 AM
They have silicone molds for making cupcake cakes w/cupcakes shaped to fit together to make the overall cake
the Ojai cake looks like Curious George flung on his own 'finishing touch'...blech! - September 16, 2008 at 11:27 AM
You know, when I looked at the Ojai 'cake' my first thought was poo frappe, but I think souffle may be a better description of the texture.
Either way, that's one vile 'cake!'
I've said it before and I'll say it again: individual, beautifully iced cupcakes = awesome; masses of cupcakes with huge overhangs of icing = revolting. - September 16, 2008 at 11:31 AM
- LadyCiani said...
Did anyone notice the turtle has two heads? It has the cupcake head that's off the cardboard, then it has a vaguely arrow-shaped "neck" where it attaches to the cake. I have a pet turtle, and that arrow shape is shaped much more like their actual heads! So, maybe this is in celebration of a two-headed turtle? But then you're eating it, so maybe the turtle died?
- September 16, 2008 at 11:33 AM
- Wild Child said...
If you want a decorated cake, go with the cake, if you want cupcakes, go with cupcakes. There is no point in ruining good cake design or good cupcakes with an overload of frosting and bad form. I just don't see the point, except not needing a utensil to cut the cake apart? It's still messy pulling those apart, like the teacher said. If you're serving cupcakes to kids, because you don't want to cut up a big cake, get the individually decorated ones. They are much cuter on their small scale.
- September 16, 2008 at 11:42 AM
- Shandelle said...
My almost 5 year old said to me "Mom, I don't want that cake for my birthday, there is poop on it".
Yeah, even my 4 year old knows better. LOL! - September 16, 2008 at 11:49 AM
- Ruth said...
I am reconsidering my previous comment because of the Gourmet cupcake cake cover that someone linked to. I think that cupcake cakes are distasteful only when they try to disguise themselves as regular cakes. A pile of cupcakes artfully arranged but that still look like cupcakes look very pretty!
- September 16, 2008 at 11:49 AM
- Jenny said...
So what are you feelings on cupcakes in general?
- September 16, 2008 at 11:54 AM
- Hi Kooky said...
Alas, I am sad and confused. I'm a lover of cupcakes. Just cupcakes. The very term "cupcake cakes" is redundant and should be a warning that something has been altered beyond good taste. I'm a pretty practical gal, but "even portions" do not outweigh the ugly factor of these cakes. Any reasonable child would sob with fright when they saw the "Curious George" cake. I don't get it. Please let the cupcakes stand alone!
- September 16, 2008 at 11:55 AM
- theinspector said...
Unless have things have changed, people are failing to mention that Ojai is really just an art lovers hippie town.
- September 16, 2008 at 11:58 AM
- MetalNoir said...
That monkey cake bears far more resemblance to a Green Man of Celtic mythology:
That fact does not make it any more appealing. - September 16, 2008 at 12:07 PM
- Momma J said...
Ok - that poop cupcake just made me loose my desire for lunch.
- September 16, 2008 at 12:07 PM
- The Courteous Chihuahua said...
poo souffle!!!!! BAHAHAHAHA!!!!
- September 16, 2008 at 12:30 PM
man, that Ojai cake is frightening. The "meat slab" portion looks like it came from The Gallery of Regrettable Food.
- September 16, 2008 at 12:35 PM
OMG!! Do you realize what we have here?? The Ojai cake is a wreck of the Farwel cake---it's a
DOUBLE WRECK PILE-UP!! - September 16, 2008 at 12:53 PM
- Ironygirl said...
One cupcake cake I actually liked was of Elmo, but other than that, yeah, cupcake cakes are not good. Plus, the frosting to cake ratio is way out of whack. Do we really want kids to be eating that much sugar at a birthday party?!
- September 16, 2008 at 12:54 PM
- Elizabeth said...
I think cupcake cakes are cheesy!! I hadn't even heard of one til I went to an adult church function where they had one!! WHATEVER!! GIVE YOUR KIDS A REAL CAKE!!!!
- September 16, 2008 at 12:55 PM
Omigosh, girl detective, that cupcake DOES look like a breast. Yikes!
- September 16, 2008 at 12:57 PM
- L. R. Jonté said...
I think a better decorator could have made the first wreck a lot less Geico-caveman-on-crystal-meth, and a whole lot more monkey like.
It still would have been ugly, but maybe not so emotionally scarring. - September 16, 2008 at 1:00 PM
- Manders said...
We had a cupcake cake for a party for Girl Guides. It was great. No clean up. I loved it!
These...not so much! It must be really hard to decorate on a whole bunch of cupcakes. - September 16, 2008 at 1:02 PM
- LTP said...
One could ALSO make the argument that the Curious George cupcake cake looks more like the Beast from Disney's Beauty and the beast: http://disney.go.com/vault/archives/characters/beast/beast.html
- September 16, 2008 at 1:08 PM
- Ronnica said...
Okay, so I get that cupcake cakes aren't the best design wise. But it's the best way to get a good frosting to cake ratio! It's as if everyone gets a corner piece!
- September 16, 2008 at 1:17 PM
- Kopperhead said...
I guess I have been living under a rock. I've been making wedding cakes for over 25 years, and never heard of a cupcake cake until this blog. I just don't get it. What does one do, just arrange the cupcakes and dump frosting on them? Does it sink into all the spaces left by trying to make a shape out of round cupcakes? Does that make for an extraordinary amount of frosting? Isn't that kind of messy when handing out the cupcakes? Inquiring minds....
Cupcakes are a stand alone dessert and shouldn't be smushed together to pretend to be a cake.
The Ojai cake made me shudder. And that's something I don't do often. - September 16, 2008 at 1:20 PM
It would sure be nice if people would read at least 2 comments before posting. I swear 75% of these tell us where Ojai is.
I solemnly swear to never serve a cupcake cake. PROMISE! - September 16, 2008 at 1:26 PM
- Heather said...
Thank you! I needed a good laugh today! ALL of those are wrecktastic...very much so!
- September 16, 2008 at 1:27 PM
Now THIS is a Curious George cupcake cake.
I thought the one for Shana was Chewbacca when I first saw it... - September 16, 2008 at 1:35 PM
- Breeda said...
Yuck... too bad for the Ojai cake. I was born in Ojai (pronounced O-hi). Pretty place hidden in the mountains and I miss it. Looks nothing like that cake wreck.
Love your blog! - September 16, 2008 at 1:38 PM
oh good, we're away from the vicarious cannibalistic theme and back with the multi-hued poo cakes.
It's safe to go back on the internet, folks.
Or maybe not... - September 16, 2008 at 1:39 PM
Yeah, those are all absolutely heinous. I understand why people hate cupcake cakes if this is the type of quality they're being exposed to. (I can't completely join in the hate, as I've seen in person a couple good cupcake cakes that didn't rely on two inches' worth of frosting to make the designs.)
Heads up to the baker of the flattened-Curious-George cupcake monstrosity: here's how you make a monkey cupcake cake. And have a cute Jolly Roger cupcake cake, too. - September 16, 2008 at 1:41 PM
- Crystal Chick said...
I've made 2 cupcake cakes in my time, and they are a beast to decorate! Though I'm convinced mine are wayyyy cuter than the ones in this post, I don't dare share them for fear of humiliation. :)
- September 16, 2008 at 1:42 PM
- Rebecca said...
Here's some decent looking cupcake cakes:
http://users.adelphia.net/~suebaum/cupcakecakes.htm - September 16, 2008 at 1:43 PM
Thank you for saving us all from the grave mistake of a cupcake assemblage! I usually think to myself, "Well, the kids won't care what it looks like as long as it tastes good." Now I'm not so sure. Freakin' hilarious!
- September 16, 2008 at 2:01 PM
- Dea said...
The Van Gogh cupcake monstrosity linked PROVES the point - Van Gogh didn't paint Starry Night on a scalloped-edge diner placemat! And the photos of the stack of cupcakes is NOT the same as the cupcake cake. When you try to make a shape out of a bunch of circles - it's not always going to be pretty! Not to mention - if you WANT cupcakes, why not just HAVE cupcakes? Why do they have to pretend to be anything else??
- September 16, 2008 at 2:08 PM
- kimbalaya said...
I made ONE cupcake cake for my girls' birthdays - they were 1 and 3 years old that year. It wasn't hideous, but the amount of icing on each one was disgusting. Individual cupcakes are my birthday treat of choice now, at least until they're old enough to ask for a regular cake instead.
- September 16, 2008 at 2:16 PM
- Miranda said...
OK. Cupcake cakes are ugly, but I'd still eat them (except for the Ojai cake; that frosting really does look like poo).
Am I the only one who thinks it would be kinda fun to have blue poo, by the way? I am? OK. - September 16, 2008 at 2:21 PM
- Unknown said...
I saw a really cute cupcake cake at the bakery back in early August while picking up a (regular) cake for my daughter's birthday. All the cupcakes were decorated individually, however, instead of having the icing spread across them like a regular cake. It was a teddy bear, so the icing was chocolate, and the eyes and nose and whatnot were made on top of individual cupcakes. It would be very easy to pull those apart for little kids without icing going everywhere, and it was actually pretty cute. My MIL and I thought about getting it, then went with a regular cake instead.
I agree that these are horrific, but that's not to say that *all* are. - September 16, 2008 at 2:23 PM
I thought the monkey cupcake-cake was a Wookiee at first.
- September 16, 2008 at 2:24 PM
Lol I live just outside of Ojai! It is a little town in So. Cal. about 15-20 miles from the ocean, but 2.5 hr. drive from LA. Ojai is such a wonky (read: insanely Liberal and tree-hugging), crazy town... I wonder of that cake was made there; it totally looks like someone in Ojai would make it!! Seriously! Ojai is totally not worth the drive... stay as far away as possible!
--Jacqui Mitchell - September 16, 2008 at 2:30 PM
- Shara said...
That's my birthday cake that looks like the whacked out monkey. Scary, eh? I was happy that it wasn't intended for a kid, or it would have sacred the bajezus out of them.
We like cupcake cakes because of the icing to cake ratio - like ronnica said, it's like every piece is a corner piece. But, after this fiasco we might go back to regular cakes. - September 16, 2008 at 2:51 PM
- vikkitikkitavi said...
I spent a week in Ojai one day. Given the choice of a replay, or a piece of that cake, I'd have to take the cake.
- September 16, 2008 at 2:51 PM
- Susanlee said...
Here are some cupcake cakes that actually work pretty well: http://users.adelphia.net/~suebaum/cupcakecakes.htm
I think the important thing to remember is not to purchase them at Wal-Mart. - September 16, 2008 at 3:05 PM
My cousin did a pseudo cupcake cake for her wedding (it was in a national park, on the side of a mountain...beautiful, but casual). The cupcakes were individually decorated, and the baker placed them on a tiered stand with some flowers. It was very pretty, and she got the look of a tiered wedding cake without the fuss. But I've never seen anything like what you've posted on here!
- September 16, 2008 at 3:29 PM
- The Five Nomads said...
Okay, I personally think that the monkey montrousity looks like a Chewbacca mask gone horribly wrong. Maybe the decorator had never seen Curious George and was a big Star Wars fan... Or maybe Planet of the Apes?
- September 16, 2008 at 3:49 PM
- clueuin said...
Anonymous: Thank you!
One more person mentions where the heck Ojai is I am going to Screem!
Poo cake, blue poo, LOL! Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh...........
Via la individual cupcakes!
(Man, I'm hungrey! Funny consider what I've seen today. Hmmmm?)
Clueuin - September 16, 2008 at 3:50 PM
The happy monkey cake was too too funny! Even more so when compared to what Curious George really looks like! Thanks for giving me the giggles today! =)
- September 16, 2008 at 4:11 PM
- EmBee said...
My daughters turtle just died... Thanks for adding insult to injury.
Woman, you crack me up!
:-) - September 16, 2008 at 4:28 PM
Ojai apparently is worth the drive. this was featured today: http://realestate.msn.com/slideshow.aspx?cp-documentid=10223662&imageindex=5
that picture looks way better - September 16, 2008 at 4:37 PM
- Kelly said...
"Poo souffle" just made me gag a little.
- September 16, 2008 at 4:37 PM
- Auti and Tim said...
My 2 year old saw the picture of Curious George and said "A monkey" then I scrolled to the cake of the supposed Curious George and asked him what is that and he says "A Flower".
- September 16, 2008 at 4:46 PM
- E.A.D. said...
Cupcakes are a good thing. I'd eat a whole box of them while watching a movie if I didn't lack a cast-iron stomach and I wasn't trying to keep my weight down for racing. Cupcake cakes, on the other hand, I'm not really crazy about. If they were done in the manner liz's post mentioned, no complaints. It's when people try to make them look like ONE big cake that disaster strikes!
- September 16, 2008 at 4:47 PM
- Wendee said...
I am a cupcake lover (please dont shoot me!)! I must admit though that these cupcake cakes are...AWFUL!
- September 16, 2008 at 5:02 PM
I'm saddened that you've come across so many crappy cupcake cakes. I'm a cake decorator and generally enjoy cakes of that sort, and feel it necessary to now send you pictures of our cup-cakes, just so you can see that not all store-bought cup-cakes suck.
- September 16, 2008 at 5:14 PM
That poor Ojai cake looks like it was finished off in a pizza oven!
It probably started out no worse (well, "worse" being relative) than the "Farewel 6 Grade" cake, but then it looks like someone was transporting it some distance without realizing the sun was shining right in that car window. That must've been a very, very bad moment to open the box and... what a melted mess!
The cake with the pyramid of cupcakes on top was actually really cute. Now that kind of cupcake cake I could go with! - September 16, 2008 at 5:16 PM
Unless you saw the pics, it would just be too hard to believe! I too don't like the cupcake cakes, it is NOT a work of art like a cake can be....
Yvonne - September 16, 2008 at 5:18 PM
- Chris said...
I worked at a bakery--cupcakery, actually--and we made AMAZING cupcakes. They tasted great and looked amazing. They would die if anyone tried to make anything like those monstrosities. Each cupcake was a work of art--none of this "cupcakes as a cake" nonsense.
Each box was scrutinized for perfection--line off? Not centered? Scrape it off and do it again.
Spiderman? No problem--each cupcake (12, 24, 48, etc.) would have a hand drawn spiderman that looked just like him flying along--all of them identical.
It annoys me to see such shoddy work being passed off to customers. - September 16, 2008 at 5:47 PM
I disagree with tossing out a whole medium.
Some of these are a pretty clever use of the cupcake cake idea:
http://cupcakestakethecake.blogspot.com/2007/12/fun-with-cupcake-cakes.html - September 16, 2008 at 5:47 PM
- A.k.a. "Mommy" said...
You are so right about cupcake cakes. We thought we could get away with it, but ended up with heinous blood-red and eggplant colored upside-down balloons. We almost sent you a picture. The icing was about 3 feet thick and composed mainly of lard, which made it a great choice for a first birthday, as the baby is now completely waterproof. Never again we will be seduced by pull-apart cake!
- September 16, 2008 at 5:56 PM
I have never seen cupcake cakes in England. Sadly, wherever America leads, yea must the UK surely follow.
Cupcakes - yes.
Cupcake cakes - o please no.
It's coming, I can feel it. And we will be a sorrier nation for it. - September 16, 2008 at 6:04 PM
Ojai is a hippy resort town (yup an oxymoron) in central California, the cup cake cake was probably made with micro biotic icing which is as appealing as it looks!
- September 16, 2008 at 6:14 PM
Thank you SO MUCH Jen for taking a brave stance on cupcake cakes. They are never, never never, OK.
What I missed is when it even became acceptable to jam cupcakes together, smear them with a giant plop of icing, and call it a day. - September 16, 2008 at 6:26 PM
See, this is what I've always seen as cupcake cakes -
All individual but together making up a whole pic. I don't think it's fair to say that the posted examples are the only kind of cupcake cake. That's like saying all the other wrecks represent all cakes. These are just examples of cupcakes wrecks, but not all cc cakes are wrecks. - September 16, 2008 at 6:29 PM
- Brandy said...
Wow, Ojai doesn't look ANYTHING like that! It IS worth the drive, unless there are rainstorms, mudslides, or wildfires! [shudder]
Maybe you're supposed to put the candles around the Spidey skin to mimic the pins holding it to the specimen board....
Wow, I like cuppy cakes as much as anyone, but... wow. - September 16, 2008 at 6:32 PM
- Unknown said...
That Spidey cake is really unsettling, and I think I know why. It reminds me of the videos from seventh grade health class that showed how AIDS screws up your immune system, in which HIV would always be a creepy, lumpy red ball with evil eyes (or worse, an actual guy in such a costume), corrupting all the cute little white T-cells. I HAD NIGHTMARES FOR MONTHS. I SWEAR I'M GONNA GO HAVE ANOTHER ONE TONIGHT.
- September 16, 2008 at 6:51 PM
- wifeogeek said...
I must agree with the poster that state that not all cupcake cakes are "wreck-tastic" I'm sorry that there are some out there that ruin it for the rest of them. I have made a beautiful grooms cupcake cake with layers! All chocolate...Oh, now I wish I took pictures of the cakes/cupcake cakes I made.
- September 16, 2008 at 6:54 PM
For me, regardless of horrible design, the ratio of cake to icing on a cupcake cake makes a "piece" inedible unless you scrape half of it off.
By then, it's already too much work. - September 16, 2008 at 6:56 PM
- Nicole said...
I work at a SuperTarget bakery and I HATE making cupcake cakes. Though I have to say I've made a baseball (and soccer ball, etc...) one before and it turned out perfectly fine. Some people just shouldn't be cake decorators.
- September 16, 2008 at 6:57 PM
I think some people might be misunderstanding what a cup-cake cake is.
A cupcake cake is not individually decorated cupcakes artfully arranged on a platter, possibly in tiers to resemble a wedding cake.
A cupcake cake is cupcakes placed next to each other then iced and decorated as if they were a sheet cake. But, because the cupcakes are not flat like a sheet cake, the decorator has to dump an excessive load of icing on the poor little cakes to create a smooth surface.
The result is a thick, misshapen sludge of icing precariouly sitting atop a group of cupcakes.
And, as a few of the pp mentioned - they are horrible to serve in a kindergarten class - icing ends up all over everything. Parents, please do us teachers a hug favor and just say no! To cupcake cakes!!!
Let's start a revloution - Praise the return of the individually decoratated cupcakes - September 16, 2008 at 7:06 PM
"The baby is now completely waterproof." Bwahahahaha!!!! I needed that. Thanks.
The scariest thing about the flickr link was the discovery that there's a flickr GROUP for cupcake cakes. Though actually most of them are not wrecks and some are very well done, they all would still have been better as normal cakes, IMHO. Except this one:
which I thought was awesomely cool, but... it's not really a cupcake cake, is it? It's a clever and beautiful arrangement of individually frosted cupcakes.
Oh, and torgo jr... I'm afraid that what came to mind for lolcats was something poo-fle related. Like:
Ojai, were u gonna eat dis? Sry, thought wuz nu litr box. - September 16, 2008 at 7:25 PM
What awful cakes! LOL! I sent a VERY cute turkey cupcake and cookie cake to my son's kindergarten class...and believe me, except for the head, it had alot less icing on it than those store bought things with the icing just absolutely TOWERING over the top, as thick as the cupcake itself!!! I'm a decorator myself...but I do try to make sure my cakes (and even the occasional cupcake cake) go out of my kitchen looking quite presentable. LOL.
- September 16, 2008 at 7:36 PM
- Boozy Tooth said...
That does it. I'm a new fan, but already I want to be you.
Alixandra Hice - September 16, 2008 at 8:00 PM
I'd laugh if they didn't frighten me so...
- September 16, 2008 at 8:16 PM
- Serena said...
You know, I didn't like cupcake 'cakes' before, but... wow. You have convinced me even more. lol.
Your site is amazing! - September 16, 2008 at 8:16 PM
Ojai cake = totally wreck-tastic. Ewwwww to poo icing.
- September 16, 2008 at 8:22 PM
- emzeegee & the hungry three said...
Did you know that "wrecktastic" is now a verb? I own a cake design company, and recently have been considering the wisdom of offering cupcake cakes (something not currently available in Australia.)
So as I was thinking about it, I found myself thinking, "Naahhh....too much opportunity to create things which will be wrecktastic!"
HA! Thanks for the daily giggle (and useful tool for showing my chefs what NOT to do!) - September 16, 2008 at 8:46 PM
As a cake maker/decorator I too hate cupcake cakes! I've never made one quite as awful as your pictures but they never turn out what you'd call pretty and they are a huge pain in the butt to make and package. Serving them is also icky as they look much worse once you start passing them out and there's always way too much frosting.
I hope my stuff never shows up on your site. I get people that want me to write "Under Neat That Write" on their cakes and I tell them I'd better not see it on your blog or no more cake for them. :) - September 16, 2008 at 8:48 PM
My son said about the monkey cake - "it looks like someone put eyes, and a nose and lips on some poo."
Tracy - September 16, 2008 at 8:58 PM
...cupcake cakes...?
I've never even heard of one. What are they? Why do they exist? Why not make individual cupcakes or one normal cake?
I am baffled. - September 16, 2008 at 9:23 PM
Ummm... Cupcakes - it's just portion control really isn't it? and since when has that been a good idea where cake is concerned?!
The Van Gogh (posted by Judge) looks ok, but would be so much more impressive on a plain old sheet cake, easier to make and more appropriate for the adults it is surely intended for?
Cupcake cakes are just ugly... - September 16, 2008 at 9:28 PM
- ohchicken said...
wow, that monkey cake looks much like the mask of agamemnon.
- September 16, 2008 at 9:41 PM
Thanks so much for the laughs! That curious george cake was one of the funniest things I have seen in awhile!
- September 16, 2008 at 9:46 PM
- Sister Mary Martha said...
Just...don't try to make anything out of the cupcakes.
Or be prepared to offer up eating the results for the Poor Souls in Purgatory. - September 16, 2008 at 9:47 PM
Love this blog and believe MOST cupcake-cakes are horrifying, and yet... I like this one:
Yeah, the skull is cheerful, but it IS a party, right? - September 16, 2008 at 9:50 PM
- Louise said...
I think Curious George got a little too curious for his own good ... Damn that's scary looking!
- September 16, 2008 at 9:55 PM
- W. A. Whipple said...
I laughed almost as hard at some of the comments as I did at that godawful "happy monkey" cake, and subsequent Teen Wolf reference. Oh, man! I needed that!
- September 16, 2008 at 10:43 PM
- Unknown said...
Shapes you cannot make using circles:
Larger circles
Curious George's head
Shapes you CAN make using circles:
"Bust A Move" video game
Cupcake Cake Decorators, please take note. - September 16, 2008 at 10:49 PM
- Rock and Fossil Depot said...
This was so funny, I couldn't stop laughing!
- September 16, 2008 at 10:52 PM
- Unknown said...
I think the turtle cake looks more like Curious George than the "monkey" cake does...
- September 16, 2008 at 10:57 PM
Oh gosh, I can't stop myself... last one, really...
1. Wilton makes square silicone cupcake thingies. I hereby declare that if cupcake cakes MUST be made for some reason, they should be made with square cupcakes. Then you'd have a lot less space between cupcakes and you'd have cleaner edges. I think you'd still get wrecks, but at least they might be a little less wrecky.
2. I just can't believe I missed the most obvious lolcat joke.
DO NOT WANT! - September 16, 2008 at 11:04 PM
I wasn't thinking Teen Wolf as much as I was thinking Chewbacca.
- September 16, 2008 at 11:16 PM
- no one said...
Granted, I love cupcakes a lot. They are like tiny cakes that can be enjoyed on the go.
I love cake. Who doesn't love cake?
Cupcake-cakes are just...Not So Good. At all. - September 16, 2008 at 11:31 PM
I have always agreed- cupcake cakes are a lazy man's way to do ugly cake decorating.
- September 16, 2008 at 11:39 PM
I own a cake design company, and recently have been considering the wisdom of offering cupcake cakes (something not currently available in Australia.)
As a fellow Australian, I beg you not to :)
Seriously, even the best decorated cupcake cake is just glitzed up tackiness.
Cupcakes = cool
Cupcake cakes = tack-o-rama - September 16, 2008 at 11:48 PM
Yea I agree 100%
If I got one of these for my birthday I would be oh so pissed!!!
Talk about a downgrade from an ice cream cake!!!
Hey did you know Chuck Norris "developed" jeans??
http://andthisismyamerica.com/2008/09/17/good-ol-chuck/ - September 17, 2008 at 12:20 AM
- Unknown said...
What about this one? http://aingelcakes.deviantart.com/art/Lion-97877742
- September 17, 2008 at 12:29 AM
But these aren't any worse than a lot of the regular cake wrecks you post! If these are an argument against cupcake cakes, then your whole blog is an eloquent argument against cake in general!
- September 17, 2008 at 12:55 AM
Are these a recent invention? I'd never heard of one until the one posted the other day. They seem totally inefficient and a waste of icing.
- September 17, 2008 at 1:18 AM
- Ro said...
The Ojai cake ... second cupcake from the top on the right-hand side ... have you ever seen a more appetising colour?!!
- September 17, 2008 at 3:47 AM
- JoJo said...
I love the "Curious George" cake. I can't belive a professional cake designer did that!
- September 17, 2008 at 4:03 AM
As much as I love cupcakes, the whole basis of it is to be individual. So I agree on the cupcake-cakes being an abomination (and it makes cupcakes ugly anyway)
- September 17, 2008 at 5:54 AM
- Shalum said...
those were really weird ones. i wish they'd just back out instead of sending them over to the poor kids.
- September 17, 2008 at 5:55 AM
- L said...
ROTFL! As a general rule, I dont like them either and I have seen a few that are well executed but these? Cant stop laughing. My kids were all like "euwww". Still laughing.
- September 17, 2008 at 7:11 AM
- Unknown said...
Sure,you remember Jaimie Sommers. The Bionic Woman?
1970's? C'mon...really? - September 17, 2008 at 7:27 AM
- Morgan said...
I UPDATED UR SPANISH - September 17, 2008 at 8:07 AM
LOL -- well, there are some people who can make attractive cupcake cakes: http://www.brenscakes.com/tsreindeer.jpg
I guess it's sort of like "western" theme wedding cakes -- it's VERY easy for them to go very "wrong" - September 17, 2008 at 9:12 AM
I've never liked cupcake cakes...even though I have seen some that were really nice. But...cake is cake and cupcakes are cupcakes...the two should never be combined.
BTW..when did the nuclear bomb hit Ojai? You'd think I would have seen something about that on the news..hmm. - September 17, 2008 at 9:27 AM
- clueuin said...
Kimberly, girl I sure your a nice gal and all, but I did warn people that if I saw anything more about the lovely town of Ojai I was going to Scream' So.....
[Eh, em,cough!]
So Holly, great picture of individually decorated cupcakes put together in a nice design, hon.
It looks good even with the green icing,(now there is something that SOB cake decorator should have done to that wedding cake rather than that nasty thing he/she drip on the side.)
If only.....
No really no more Ojai, enough!
Clueuin - September 17, 2008 at 9:41 AM
- Jen said...
@ Judge: Anything cupcake cakes can do, real cakes can do better.
;) - September 17, 2008 at 11:20 AM
- mousekemom said...
I grew up in Ventura, just south of Ojai. Poor Ojai to be subjected to that nasty wreck. Love the other wrecks though...too funny!
- September 17, 2008 at 12:12 PM
- Lancastermom said...
This blog is so funny! I check up on it a couple times a week. Even my 4 year old said that doesn't look like a turtle.
- September 17, 2008 at 12:52 PM
- Sheri said...
I'm with you on the poo souffle. EESH. That is REALLY unappetizing. I have never seen a cupcake cake in real life either, but based on these pictures, I hope my luck holds out!
- September 17, 2008 at 1:13 PM
This was the funniest post for a while, I have tear stains - those 'cakes' are baaad.
On a serious (but perhaps pompous) note though aren't cupcake cakes just a consequence of a fast food culture? Proper cakes take time and effort and are (mostly) much better for it. - September 17, 2008 at 3:03 PM
So on Pokey the turtle, am I missing something or is he missing HALF HIS BODY??????????????????
- September 17, 2008 at 3:13 PM
- Katharine said...
I just saw a great cupcake cake at walmart this past Sunday. It was designed to look like a puppy (think maltese)..and it was...OK, I guess..the real kicker was the icing decorations on the carboard underneath. I had to stare at it for several minutes before I realized the piles of black on it were supposed to be paw prints...not piles of poo...you can imagine how enticing it was! (My camera phone sucks and I don't have a digital camera....otherwise I'd send you a picture of it...so sorry!)
- September 17, 2008 at 3:18 PM
- fuzzandfuzzlet said...
The Curious George cake probably gave the child nightmares.
The Ojai! cake reminds me of an unfortunate incident with my cat and too much tuna.
The baseball cake should be in the hall of shame. There are SO many ways to make a single cupcake look like a really cute baseball. Most of us would jump for joy if our kid wanted a simple baseball cake. I did not think there was a way to screw that up. - September 17, 2008 at 6:53 PM
- d0nn3ll said...
Love you Jen...may I call you Jen? I rarely comment, but I'm a follower none-the-less. Keep on keepin'-on!
- September 17, 2008 at 8:19 PM
Everyone! Ojai is East of Ventura and south east of Santa Barbara. It is a very pretty place. Many tree huggers. By the way Larry Hagman who played JR on "Dallas" lives there. The cake looks like blobs of frosting. Yuck.:/
- September 17, 2008 at 8:36 PM
O.M.G. ..."Poo Soufle".
I was laughing pretty hard at the curious Curious George and the cement truck comment, but then I go to the poo soufle. I am cracking up all over again as I write about it! That term will pop into my head at ramdom in the grocery store and I will maniacally laugh out loud. People will wonder... I love making people wonder.
I haev been reading here for a couple weeks now. I love the drama you inject into your writing. Keep up the great work!
Suze - September 17, 2008 at 10:19 PM
- kat said...
Can't stop laughing at your comments....
- September 17, 2008 at 11:12 PM
It's like a Spengbab Curious George.
- September 17, 2008 at 11:31 PM
- adozeneggs said...
I couldn't agree more. Cupcake "cakes" are absolutely tragic. The first one I ever saw was at the supermarket, it was a football shape with white poopy details on it.
- September 18, 2008 at 1:21 AM
- Zenne said...
Every time I see a cupcake cake, I feel compelled to make one just to show it's possible to make them nice. I think you'd just have to like...put thought into it, though.
- September 18, 2008 at 4:29 AM
- la vie boheme said...
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- September 18, 2008 at 6:57 AM
At least the Teletubby Poo cupcake cake was somewhat attractive...
- September 18, 2008 at 1:59 PM
- September 18, 2008 at 3:49 PM
- Rachael M. said...
I have laughed SO HARD at that supposed to be a monkey cake. I was like, "Um, chewbacca, maybe" but you're right, when I scrolled down, it was definitely Teen Wolf!
And then I laughed even harder.
And forced the people I work with to come see it.
And Poo Souffle? Excellent vebage. - September 18, 2008 at 4:47 PM
- Becca said...
Sam's Club has a cute Umbrella Baby Shower Cake. The baby is a little creepy looking, however, the umbrella (the important part) is really cute, in the picture online and in person (they actually look the same! LOL). My mom has bought 2 or 3 of the Umbrella Cupcake Cakes recently!! :o)
- September 18, 2008 at 5:29 PM
- AJ and Dexter's Mom said...
I was dying laughing. I thought the cake was Chewbacka (sp?).
Now, I don't hate cupcake cakes. I think they're really handy at birthday parties because you don't need a fork.
However, I'll agree, having made two now, that they just cannot look like the thing you are trying to portray. It's impossible.
Teen Wolf. Still about to pee my pants on that one.
Thanks for the laughs.
Sonja - September 18, 2008 at 10:53 PM
The 'Gorgeous George' effort - surely, SURELY the best wreck ever?
And Jen's comments - genius.
Tee hee hee. - September 19, 2008 at 5:14 AM
OMG, I laughed so hard when I saw the monkey cake, I almost pee'd my pants! LOL
I love this Blog!
Anita - September 19, 2008 at 11:01 AM
Those of you recommending the silicon cupcake-cake mold thingies...have you ever tried to actually bake a cake using one of those things?
I suggest you don't bother trying it.
I was given one of those silicon mold "cupcake" "cake" pans not long ago by well-meaning relatives. So I gave it a whirl -- for the family, not for the "real" birthday party.
Even though I've never seen a successfully decorated version of one of those things. And now I know why.
It's impossible to get those bizarrely shaped little cakes cleanly OUT of the mold, silicon or no silicon, so the sides of the cakes are malformed and crumbly. And there's no paper liners, of course. So when you go to frost the cakes, you are compelled to try to frost the sides. It doesn't work; they end up blotchy and weird.
Plus, each little oddly-shaped cake is usually much smaller than a regular cupcake.
End result: Frosting-to-cake ratio even more whacked out. Even messier to serve. Plus: Uuuuuugly.
I can make a pretty darn good "shape" cake out of standard round, square or rectangular cakes. Or I can make very cute individually decorated cupcakes. For my kids' birthday parties I often do BOTH, because we give big parties. It's just Not. That. Hard.
Silicon mold doohickey: Never again.
Holly - September 19, 2008 at 5:46 PM
- Chilly Beans said...
You are killing me, smalls! I haven't laughed that hard in a long time! This is hilarious! The monkey and spidermans face....I just can't stop laughing!!
- September 19, 2008 at 11:35 PM
The monkey cake, with the cartoon first and the cake second, made me laugh out loud.
Wonderful set up. Horrendous cake. - September 20, 2008 at 3:56 AM
- fug estate said...
You got me at "poo souffle". I haven't stopped laughing YET.
Those cupcake cakes, these in the post at least, strike me as being a lazy way out. If you're going to bake a cake, bake a real cake. These things remind me of those recipes where people would just slap frosting on a pile of Twinkies and call it a day. - September 20, 2008 at 9:59 AM
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A Cake Wreck is any cake that is unintentionally sad, silly, creepy, inappropriate - you name it. A Wreck is not necessarily a poorly-made cake; it's simply one I find funny, for any of a number of reasons. Anyone who has ever smeared frosting on a baked good has made a Wreck at one time or another, so I'm not here to vilify decorators: Cake Wrecks is just about finding the funny in unexpected, sugar-filled places.
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