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Prison Name | Bald Knob Jail |
Authority | Arkansas Department of Corrections (ADC) |
Security Measure | Low |
Prison Type | City Jail |
Prison Category | Jail |
Address | 3713 Arkansas Highway 367 North, Bald Knob, Arkansas , 72010 |
City | Bald Knob |
Postal Code | 72010 |
County | White County |
State | Arkansas ( AR ) |
Telephone Number | 501-724-5193 |
Fax Number | 501-724-5046 |
Note: You should contact the administration department of the state of the Arkansas for further details and clarification.
If you want to search an inmate currently kept at the Bald Knob Jail of the Arkansas state. You can use the following ways to enquire about your inmate.
You may find it quite handy to visit the Arkansas Department of Corrections (ADC) inmate search web page where you an find a way to enquire about your inmate.
Visit the web page Arkansas Department of Corrections (ADC) authority of the Arkansas if you don't find enough information around.
You can directly call to the Bald Knob Jail telephone number 501-724-5193. Often, this method provides the latest and quick information about an inmate.
TIP: Don't forget to keep the inmate and your information in hand before you make a call. Continue reading for details.
You can send fax to the Bald Knob Jail fax number 501-724-5046. But, this may take a long to respond. May be 3-5 days or more.
When you contact any administration department keep information of your inmate in hand. This information includes Full Name, Age, Gender, Date of Birth, and Inmate ID.
You should also keep your personal information in hand like your ID Card, Driving Licence, etc. These types of information are always asked when you contact any department.
Visit Arkansas state wide web page for complete details. This web page contains a complete directory list of all prisons, jails, and facilities in the Arkansas state and lot of related information about how to search an inmate.
Inmates incarcerated in the Bald Knob Jail as usually allowed to receive items with restrictions and prior approval for security reasons. They are allowed to receive magazines, newspapers, books, and other printed material only from approved vendors. The largest vendor in this category is Amazon.com .
Only new items are allowed and they must not be hardcover or spiral bound for security measures. The printed material should not contain any abusive language, hate speech, and nudity, or violent content. An example of prohibited content is High Times magazines, Playboy, etc.
Holiday and birthday cards share the same rule with other mail or package. They should not contain any electronic or popup/out material. Nudity or sexually suggestive cards are forbidden. Cards should not have glitter, stickers, etc. on them. All cards are viewed before they reach the inmate.
You are required to send Mail or Package to address mentioned below. If you are sending mail or package the first time and you don't have any past experience, it is a good idea to contact the prison department on 501-724-5193 first. There might be a change in rules for sending mail or package. You can also enquire about the list of prohibited goods, etc.
Inmate Full Name and ID
Bald Knob Jail
3713 Arkansas Highway 367 North, Bald Knob, Arkansas, 72010
NOTE: You must get approval from the prison administration before sending a package.
Note: All material is scanned and read by staff and if they find any suspicious material, they will reject it and ban you for sending further mail.
Inmates of the Bald Knob Jail can receive money in different ways. They can receive money via following allowed ways in their commissary account upon approval:
Don't forget to write the full name and ID of your inmate when you a send money order or cheque. You can also deposit cash at the prison administration office or counter if the inmate has the approval of a money deposit.
When you send money or funds to your inmate, first you have to find out what type of online transfer service is supported by the prison or institute in which your inmate is incarcerated. You can also contact at prison telephone number 501-724-5193.
You should pay very close attention to the rules of the facility or institution where the inmate is incarcerated. Sometimes they require money senders are on the inmate's visitation list. Some institutes or correctional facilities have a deposit limit, like $200-300 at a time. In federal prisons and correctional facilities, there is no such limit.
There are some of the money transfer firms being used by various facilities.
JPay, WesternUnion, and MoneyGram are by far the oldest and most trusted money transfer companies.
This is to be noted that you must verify which company can send money to your inmate before sending funds. If your inmate asks you to deposit money into the account of a friend, be careful as this is a sign of illegal activity. If the department finds such activity your inmate and you might possibly be banned from sending and receiving money.
Some authority departments may impose a limit of a maximum $200 of sending money at any time so it is a more accurate way to confirm your limit.
An inmate with fines or restitution could be a hassle to commissary/accept as true with account garnishment. If the inmate has those monetary obligations, they'll be extracted from the inmate's bank account. It could be a percent or the whole amount counting on the scenario.
We suggest inmates who are going into their bid touch the counselor and make an association in advance. In case you pass in understanding they are taking 20-25% of all deposits is higher than have them take all of it and you discover in the commissary line while the account is zero.
Calling an inmate in the Bald Knob Jail is quite straight forward. There are some rules before you call the inmate.
Visiting the Bald Knob Jail of Arkansas has some common rules defined by the Arkansas Department of Corrections (ADC). Some facilities have their own rules according to a certain circumstance. Bald Knob Jail is on a rotating visiting schedule.
Visitors are scanned and searched with metal detectors and scanner when they enter the facility or prison. There bags and cars are also searched for extra security. The visitor may be denied if he/she found with illegal things such as narcotics, prohibited material such as sexually suggestive papers or violence content.
You should always bring some extra clothing with you and leave them in your car. Change your cloth in case of any rejection of your dress.
Monday | 7:30 AM to 11:00 AM | 12:30 PM to 4:00 PM | |
Tuesday | 7:30 AM to 11:00 AM | 12:30 PM to 4:00 PM | |
Wednesday | 7:30 AM to 11:00 AM | 12:30 PM to 4:00 PM | |
Thursday | 7:30 AM to 11:00 AM | 12:30 PM to 4:00 PM | |
Friday | 7:30 AM to 11:00 AM | 12:30 PM to 4:00 PM | 5:30 PM to 9:00 PM |
Saturday | 9:00 AM to 11:00 AM | 12:30 PM to 4:00 PM | 5:30 PM to 9:00 PM |
Sunday | 7:30 AM to 11:00 AM | 12:30 PM to 4:00 PM | 5:30 PM to 9:00 PM |
Note: The Administration department of the Bald Knob Jail might have changed timing or visitation rules. It is advised that you must contact them before you visit.
Below is a GEO location map and direction of the Bald Knob Jail - 3713 Arkansas Highway 367 North, Bald Knob, Arkansas, 72010.
You can click on any area of the map to enlarge it and zoom out the exact location and direction of your interest.
You might interested in the following list of prisons, jails and other facilities in the state of Arkansas.
There are total of 7 types of prisons, jails, and facilities in the state of the Arkansas including City Jail type and total 413 prisons, jails, or facilities in the Arkansas state including Bald Knob Jail.
Following is a complete directory list and numbers are shown adjacent to each type of prison, jail, or facility in the Arkansas state.
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And the widow of a murdered Mississippi civil rights leader will help open the inaugural ceremony today. President Obama selected activist Myrlie Evers-Williams to deliver the invocation. She's the first woman and the first layperson to have the honor.
NPR's Debbie Elliott has this profile.
DEBBIE ELLIOTT, BYLINE: Evers-Williams' prominent role in President Obama's second inauguration comes in the 50th year since NAACP field secretary Medgar Evers was shot to death outside his family's home in Jackson, Mississippi.
On June 12, 1963, Myrlie Evers was inside watching TV with her three young children.
MYRLIE EVERS-WILLIAMS: And I recall that they said: There's daddy, there's daddy, they knew the sound of the car. And they were getting up off the floor - they were in the process of getting off from the floor to go to the front door to greet him and the sound of the bullet.
ELLIOTT: Evers found her husband at the bottom of the front stairs, keys still in his hand. He'd been shot in the back, targeted because of his work to register black voters and desegregate public institutions.
EVERS-WILLIAMS: Medgar became number one on the Mississippi to kill list.
ELLIOTT: It would be more than 30 years later before Myrlie Evers would see her husband's assassin brought to justice. She was in the courtroom when white supremacist Byron De La Beckwith was convicted by a Mississippi jury and spoke to reporters after the verdict.
EVERS-WILLIAMS: I'm almost speechless with emotion. All I want to do is say, yeah, Medgar, yeah, yeah, yeah.
ELLIOTT: Evers-Williams met Medgar Evers just moments after she set foot as a freshman on the campus of Alcorn State University - the historically black Mississippi College where she is now a distinguished scholar in residence. She also serves on the advisory board of the William Winter Institute for Racial Reconciliation, and has created the Medgar Evers Institute.
Former Mississippi Governor William Winter, a one-time segregationist, says she has served her home state well.
WILLIAM WINTER: Myrlie Evers had every reason to leave Mississippi, never to return. She has the right to be the bitterest person in America. It would be understandable if she hated all white folks. That was not what she chose to do.
ELLIOTT: Evers-Williams says she's trying to make sure young students understand the legacy of Medgar Evers and other civil rights martyrs. She fears history is not being passed on as it should be.
EVERS-WILLIAMS: My generation worked very hard to help America get to where it is in terms of race relations. I believe we became battle fatigued after giving and doing and dying and just all of that to move this country forward, then we said we'd done it.
ELLIOTT: Myrlie Evers worked alongside her husband as his secretary and top aide during his nearly 10-year tenure as the NAACP's lead organizer in Mississippi. After his murder, she left to raise her family in California and pursue a corporate career. But in 1995, she returned to the NAACP during a low point in the civil rights organizations' history, as it struggled financially and politically. She won a pivotal election as NAACP chairman by a single vote.
ELLIOTT: After the vote, Evers-Williams promised a time of healing.
EVERS-WILLIAMS: Let us say to those who have laughed because we have been divided, try and get through to us now.
ELLIOTT: Civil rights leader Julian Bond succeeded Evers-Williams as NAACP chair. Bond says being the first woman and layperson to give the opening prayer at a presidential inauguration is a crowning first for Evers-Williams, and a crowning achievement for all civil rights activists, on a day that also honors Martin Luther King, Jr.
JULIAN BOND: For everybody in the movement, seeing Myrlie Evers up there on that stage with Barack Obama will be just the culmination of some of the work we did and the knowledge for all of us that it was not at all in vain.
ELLIOTT: Evers-Williams calls it an exhilarating experience to represent the civil rights era by offering the invocation at President Obama's inauguration.
Debbie Elliott, NPR News.
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Employers are legally obligated to take reasonable care to assure that their workplaces are safe. Nevertheless, accidents happen. When they do, workers compensation insurance provides coverage. Workers compensation insurance serves two purposes: It assures that injured workers get medical care and compensation for a portion of the income they lose while they are unable to return to work and it usually protects employers from lawsuits by workers injured while working. Workers receive benefits regardless of who was at fault in the accident. If a worker is killed while working, workers comp (as it is often abbreviated) provides death benefits for the worker's dependents.
Workers compensation systems are established by statutes in each state. State laws and court decisions control the program in that state and no two states have exactly the same laws and regulations. States determine such features as the amount of benefits to which an employee is entitled, what impairments and injuries are covered, how impairments are to be evaluated and how medical care is to be delivered. In addition, states dictate whether workers compensation insurance is provided by state-run agencies and by private insurance companies or by the state alone. States also establish how claims are to be handled, how disputes are resolved and they may devise strategies, such as limits on chiropractic care, to control costs. To learn about the requirements where you live, visit your state's workers compensation department Web site. If your business expands to another state, you may have to deal with very different rules in the new state. The discussion here covers the general features of workers compensation programs.
Injuries employees sustain on the workplace premises or anywhere else while the employee is acting in the "course and scope" of employment are covered if their employer has workers comp insurance. For example, the leading cause of workers comp death claims is traffic accidents that occur when the employee is in a vehicle for work purposes, whether the trip is made in the company's car or the employee's own vehicle. Accidents driving to and from work are not covered. In addition to injuries from accidents, workers comp covers injuries employees may sustain from other events that may occur while they are working, including workplace violence, terrorist attacks and natural disasters.Workers comp insurance also covers certain illnesses and occupational diseases (defined in the state statutes) contracted as a result of employment. For example, employees who work with toxic chemicals can be made ill by exposure to the chemicals.
Injured workers receive all medically necessary and appropriate treatment. With medical costs soaring, many states have adopted measures designed to rein in expenditures. These include utilization management guidelines, which describe acceptable treatment protocols and diagnostic tests for specific injuries.
Income replacement benefits are based on whether the disability is total or partial and whether it is permanent or temporary. Impairment is generally defined as a reduction in earnings capacity, sometimes using the American Medical Association's criteria. Most states require that benefits be paid for the duration of the disability, but some specify a maximum number of weeks, particularly for temporary disabilities. The benefit amount is a percentage of the worker's weekly wage (actual or state average).
In most states sole proprietors and partnerships aren't required to purchase workers compensation unless and until they have employees who aren't owners. Most states will allow sole proprietors and partners to cover themselves for workers comp if they choose to. Some states don't require employees to be covered if they are paid solely on commission. Employees are generally defined as people performing services at the direction of the employer, for hire, including minors and workers who are not citizens.
Many states exempt employers with only a few employees from mandatory coverage laws. The threshold number of employees that triggers mandatory insurance is either three, four or five, depending on the state. Texas is the only state in which workers comp insurance is truly optional. In some states, businessowners' immediate family members—parents, spouse and children—who work for the firm may not have to be counted as employees for purposes of determining whether you must have workers comp insurance. These exceptions usually do not apply to other family members, such as sisters, brothers or in-laws.
Under some laws, independent contractors are not considered to be your employees. However, for the purpose of workers comp insurance, most states will treat an uninsured contractor or subcontractor or employees of an uninsured subcontractor as your employee—meaning you may be liable if he or she is injured while working for you. To avoid any unintended liability, larger companies often require any contractors or subcontractors doing work for them to provide proof they have workers comp insurance.
Regardless of whether insurance is required and regardless of how few employees you have, if an employee protected by the state statute is injured or killed in the course of working for you, you may be legally liable. One claim for a serious employee injury could bankrupt many small businesses. Insurance, through the payment of premiums for workers comp coverage, provides a predictable cost for handling this risk.
Workers comp insurance is not part of your Businessowners Policy (BOP). It must be purchased as a separate insurance policy. Each state has its own rules about where employers may buy workers comp insurance. In a few states all employers must buy their workers comp insurance from a state monopoly insurer, known as a state fund. In a number of other states, insurance may be purchased from the state fund or from private insurers. In the states that have them, state funds may serve as an insurer of last resort for businesses that cannot find coverage from a private insurer.
Premiums are based on the employer's industry classification code and payroll. Premiums for the most dangerous enterprises, such as trash hauling or logging, may be much higher than premiums for an accounting firm. Location has also become a factor in workers comp premiums. Since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, workers compensation insurers have been taking a closer look at their exposures to catastrophes, both natural and man-made. For businesses located in an area at high risk of catastrophe, premiums may be higher, regardless of the nature of the business itself. Employers with an annual premium above a certain amount are usually eligible for experience rating, which adjusts the premium up or down depending on the claims history of the company relative to other companies in that industry category. Businesses with higher than average claims will pay a higher premium and those with lower claims will generally pay less. Experience rating is more sensitive to the number of claims (loss frequency) than the dollar value of claims (loss severity). This is because of the insurance industry maxim, "frequency breeds severity." Insurers know from experience that where more accidents occur, there is a greater likelihood of big losses. A greater number of accidents indicates that overall in working conditions are not as safe as an environment where fewer accidents occur, even if in a given year the few accidents that occurred were more costly.
Your costs include insurance premiums, payments made under deductibles and the administrative costs of handling claims and making reports to the state and your insurer.
Usually a workers comp policy has two parts: "Part One, Workers Compensation" and "Part Two, Employers' Liability." Under "Part One", the insurer contracts to pay whatever the state-required amounts of compensation may be. Unlike other types of insurance, workers comp coverage has no ceiling or limit on the policy amount. The insurance company accepts a transfer of the employer's entire statutory obligation—whatever the employer is legally obligated to pay as a result of the injury. "Part Two" of the policy provides coverage for an employer who is sued by an employee for work-related bodily injury or illness that isn't subject to state statutory benefits. It has a monetary limit.
Employers' liability also insures an employer in some other situations. One is so-called "third-party over suits," where an injured worker files suit against someone other than the employer (a third party) and that third party then seeks to hold the employer responsible. For example, an employee injured while working with a machine might file suit against the manufacturer of the machine. The manufacturer might then sue the employer claiming that the cause of the injury was modifications the employer made to the machine or improper use. Another situation where this liability coverage applies is when the spouse of an injured worker sues the employer for loss of consortium.
In most states you are required to keep records of accidents. You must report work-related accidents to the state workers compensation board and to your insurer within a specified number of days. Studies suggest that the faster the insurer receives notice of an injury and can initiate medical treatment and benefits, the faster the injured worker recuperates and returns to work. To help get medical treatment to the injured worker faster, some insurers help employers file promptly a "first notice of injury" with the state agency responsible for overseeing the workers compensation system, a step which can trigger the claim process.
Long absences from work can have a lasting negative impact on workers' future employment opportunities and thus on their economic well being. A study of injured workers in Wisconsin by the Workers Compensation Research Institute found that the duration of time off from work and periods of subsequent unemployment are lower for injured workers who return to their pre-injury employer than for those who change employers. Effective communication by employers is critical to facilitate the injured worker's return to work. You should explain to workers how the workers compensation system works and that they are required to report an accident immediately and get medical attention promptly. Your expectations relative to work-related injuries or accidents should be part of the employee handbook (if there is one), conveyed to new employees as part of orientation, posted on bulletin boards and communicated periodically in safety reviews. Communicate regularly with employees who are off work due to a work-related injury. Workers who know they are thought about, missed and still part of the workplace team are generally more eager to return. Some insurers will keep employers informed about how the employee's treatment is progressing. Another aspect of the return-to-work process is successful reintegration into the workplace. Workers comp insurers help you assess the injured worker's needs and capabilities and encourage you to let workers know, in advance of any injury, that you will try to modify work activities to accommodate those who are disabled.
Your workers comp policy covers claims made only in the states named in the policy "Declarations." If an employee is injured while working in another state, and that state has benefits more generous than the state(s) named in your policy, the employee could file a workers comp claim in the other state and it would not be covered by your policy. The solution is in the "Other States" section of the policy, which allows you to list states where employees might work from time to time so there will be coverage for claims filed in those states. The "Other States" portion of the policy cannot be used to cover claims in states where coverage must be obtained from the state workers compensation fund. "Other States" coverage is intended to provide protection only for incidental exposures in states where the employer does not operate as of the effective date of the policy. If you set up an operating entity in another state, notify your insurer, as this state should be added to the "Declarations" page of the policy.
Premiums for workers comp vary among the states. In states where benefits are more generous, premiums for workers comp insurance may be correspondingly greater. In most states, workers comp benefits continue even after the worker begins to collect Social Security and Medicare. However, benefits are only one part of the equation. In some states with low benefits and costs, premiums may be high due to the inefficiency of the system for awarding benefits. The generally increasing cost of medical care impacts premiums as well. Although states are working to make changes, for the most part, workers comp doesn't have the types of cost control measures that have been applied to health insurance. Workers comp claimants do not have to pay deductibles. In many states they may visit as many doctors and specialists as they like. There is generally no requirement for doctors to prescribe generic rather than brand name drugs.
An assigned risk plan or pool is a means of providing insurance for businesses that may not be able to get workers comp insurance in the private market. High-risk businesses, businesses with a history of many claims and businesses in new industries without a previous industry claims history are the most likely to get insurance through the assigned risk plan. Typically, the employer or the agent applies to the plan. The application is then assigned to an insurance company that the state has designated to write the policy. Premiums in assigned risk pools often carry a surcharge over the regular premium rate.
About half the states have second injury funds to encourage the hiring of workers who are partly disabled but still able to work. Employers would be reluctant to hire such workers due to the risk they could sustain an injury that would combine with the prior injury or condition to cause a disability. Without second injury funds, the new employer would be liable for the entire cost of the claim. When a partially disabled employee suffers a second injury, part of the cost of the second injury is apportioned to the second injury fund.
Some states discontinued their second injury funds following passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Although the ADA requires employers to maintain confidentiality about employees' disabilities, the confidentiality rule does not apply to communications with state workers compensation authorities or second injury funds.
Manage Your Risks – Most small companies do not believe they can afford to hire a risk manager. Nevertheless, someone in the company should have a continuing responsibility for loss control and the management of workers comp claims. This involves a variety of programs to keep workers safe, the medical management of claims and early return to work for any injured workers. In some states insurers must provide accident prevention services to employers. Even if not required to do so by law, the majority of workers comp insurers can help you improve safety. In some states, employers are required by law to set up safety committees and other programs to deal with unsafe conditions in the workplace. Even when not required by law, safety committees can be very effective at reducing accidents. For example, after UPS set up worker safety committees at each of its locations to identify the most frequent workplace accidents and took measures to reduce them, injuries that caused workers to take time off from work decreased by 59 percent. You may also be legally required to have a written injury and illness prevention program. Again, even if not legally required to do so, having and following a written program can help reduce accidents.
Take Advantage of Savings Available in Your State – Several states allow merit rating credits. Smaller businesses that typically pay $5,000 in premiums or less may be entitled to a credit of 5 to 15 percent if they have not had any lost-work-time claims during a designated period. In some states there are premium credits for drug- and alcohol-free workplace programs and safety programs. Some insurers may give you a discount if you hire a professional risk management firm to help you with your safety program.
Be Sure Your Premium Is Figured Correctly – Make sure you have been placed in the right industry category. Check that the insurer's payroll computation adjusts for overtime pay and allocates the payroll of different employees correctly.
Raise Your Deductibles – A majority of states provide for optional medical deductibles in workers comp insurance policies as a cost saving measure. Deductibles tend to encourage greater safety consciousness on the part of the employer who must pay the deductible amount.
Try to Avoid Assigned Risk – Cutting down on your claims is the best way to stay out of the state's assigned risk plan, or insurer of last resort, which usually costs more. You may have been put into assigned risk without knowing it. Ask your agent to check on your status. If you have been put in assigned risk, find out from your state workers comp agency if rates are higher. If they are, make a concerted effort to get other insurance. Just because one agent is unable to find something better for you doesn't necessarily mean that it doesn't exist. Talk with other agents, investigate group self insurance programs that may be available in your state and talk with other people in your industry and owners of other businesses of similar size and age and with a similar risk level.
Coordinate Disability Programs – This option isn't available everywhere, but in some states businesses are trying to bring costs under control through the coordination of workers compensation, health care and disability benefit plans. The integration of workers compensation and other employee benefit programs is a broad concept that ranges from a simple marketing approach that promises savings from using the same insurer for both coverages to programs that offer a managed care approach to the management of all types of disability, regardless of whether they are work-related. Besides limiting overlapping programs and streamlining administration, proponents say the change to a broad approach addresses the increasing difficulty of distinguishing between work- and nonwork-related injuries and illnesses, such as injuries due to repetitive motion and mental stress claims. It improves productivity, since nonwork-related disabilities are managed with the same focus of getting the employees back to work as work-related cases.
Prior to the states' adoption of the workers compensation system in the first half of the Twentieth Century, injured workers sued their employers after workplace accidents. This was a long, cumbersome and costly process from which the worker might gain nothing if the court failed to find the employer totally responsible for the injury. With so few employers liable for workplace accidents, support for injured workers and the families of deceased workers was a societal problem. The workers compensation system was adopted to provide injured workers and their dependents timely compensation became regardless of who was at fault for a workplace accident. As part of the compromise that made the employer liable for work-related injury and disease costs regardless of fault, the employee surrendered the right to sue the employer for injuries. For the most part, the system works as intended. Injured workers accept workers comp payments and do not sue. This is why workers comp is referred to as the employee's "exclusive remedy." Nevertheless, there are certainly instances where "exclusive remedy" may not apply and injured workers may sue their employers. Conditions under which such suits are lawful vary among the states. In Florida, for example, injured employees may sue their employers in the following situations:
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EritreaThe life expectancy at birth in Eritrea is 63.51 while in Iran it is 70.89.
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The GDP per capita in Eritrea is $1,200 while in Iran it is $12,800
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With its 6,380,803 people, Eritrea is the 106th largest country in the world by population. It is the 101st largest country in the world by area with 117,600 square kilometers.
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4. Flatten the paratha again with the rolling pin. Heat up a non stick pan, brush the pan lightly with some oil or butter and pan fried the paratha on both side until golden brown.
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Monday, November 3, 2008
The Beginning of the End?
Monday, November 3, 2008
My friends, I come to you today on a matter of grave importance for our nation's future. Many of you have shared with me your concerns over the impending crisis America is facing, and I felt it was best to address this issue head on, while something can still be done to avert total catastrophe. Some of you are scared. Some are angry. Others, just baffled beyond belief. Certainly the future as we know it is hanging in the balance. Still, all is not yet lost.
I'm talking, of course, about these:
That's right: thanks to retailer Bed Bath & Beyond, the dreaded cupcake-cake is coming to the masses. Call it a "Cupcake Puzzle" if you will, BB&B, but we know a Wreckerator when we see one!
Of course, BB&B is just the middle man; the real culprit is the manufacturer, Wilton:
Now, let's not panic just yet, people. Sure, the vast majority of "professionals" can't even produce a decent looking cupcake-cake, leaving us common Janes as likely to traumatize our families as delight them with our potentially half-baked efforts. Yes, the entire CCC concept is inherently flawed, and will therefore always resemble the demented flailings of a prepubescent Pollock. And yes, those separated cupcakes in the photos were obviously decorated separately, which could lead one to accuse Wilton of false advertising. Certainly no cupcake-cake pulls apart with perfectly shaped edges like that.
Still, this is a democracy, my friends, and you have a choice! Just say 'no' to CCCs! Stand up for truth, justice, and real cakes for all! And be sure to use lots of exclamation marks to get your point across!
Or, barring that, make a Wreck and send it to me - I'm kind of curious to see just how bad these bad boys look in "real" life. ;)
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- Boozy Tooth said...
John McCain would never allow this. It is obviously a left-wing conspiracy! Vote a straight Republican ticket tomorrow and this cupcake obamanation (obviously a ploy to confuse and divide) will be eliminated by an emergency congressional ban on puzzle cupcake cake kits. Oh wait... the House and Senate are still run by a Democratic majority.
Oh well, we're doomed. - November 3, 2008 at 9:23 AM
- nittanysam said...
I worry the most for the children... not only are they subjected to these so-called puzzle cakes, the makers seem to be encouraging their participation! What's next? MMF step-by-steps in picture books? Oh, the humanity!
- November 3, 2008 at 9:23 AM
At least these kits come with different-shaped cupcake holders -- that will hopefully cut down on the scalloped look?
- November 3, 2008 at 9:28 AM
- HorribleLicensePlates said...
I could not tell that was a purse at all until I read the caption "cupcake purse." Although I think it should read "complete disaster."
- November 3, 2008 at 9:28 AM
My 14 year old daughter thought these were the coolest things ever - and as such we now have one. I'll send you a picture as soon as I get the courage to use the thing. Something about decapitating a teddy bear makes me slightly uneasy though.
- November 3, 2008 at 9:30 AM
- joyce said...
I am so glad you are featuring this. I saw these in the junk mail and was so tempted to send it in. Square cupcakes? Triangles? Where will it end? What will they think of next? The purse one did look cute for a little cousin's party.
Wow--you are so brave to agree to look at our homemade wrecks. - November 3, 2008 at 9:31 AM
- Kameron said...
Geeze, I was going to sign up to take a cake decorating class hosted by that company. I am now reconsidering!
- November 3, 2008 at 9:36 AM
Do I see different shaped cupcakes? That just adds two more layers of potential disaster to these wrecks-to-be: uneven cooking and kids complaining about getting gipped (who wants a measly little triangle when his/her sibling gets a giant rectangle?).
- November 3, 2008 at 9:39 AM
- Beth said...
Ha! I thought of you when I got this ad in the mail the other day. :)
- November 3, 2008 at 9:39 AM
Am I missing something? Again, I don't know why everyone is against the CCC's. I think some of them are well done. What's with the CCC hate?
- November 3, 2008 at 9:40 AM
A cupcake cake puzzle? Weren't the CCCP the communists? Just say NO!
- November 3, 2008 at 9:41 AM
- kerrie said...
I actually think that purse is kind of cute, and I'm not even a purse-type person. The turtle too.
But, I just don't get these cakes? Why not just make cute cupcakes instead? I'm still baffled by these, though I have to admit, I'm challenged to make a nice looking CCC. - November 3, 2008 at 9:45 AM
- Old Dominion Heather said...
You could have a "dismember the bear" party! Perfect for Halloween if you could make them molten lava cupcakes with some sort of red stuff inside!
- November 3, 2008 at 9:47 AM
- Jonathan's Mommy said...
I saw these in a Bed Bath and Beyond advertisement and was particularly appalled when I saw the manufacturer was Wilton. What in the world are they thinking?? There is no way the average decorator will be able to make anything even closely resembling a butterfly or a bear with those kids. Unacceptable.
- November 3, 2008 at 9:47 AM
I was seriously like... "OMG. Jen. Why so serious?" lol
Then I scrolled and saw the picture.
I see a lot more of this kind of wreck in your future! - November 3, 2008 at 9:48 AM
- mousekemom said...
Michael's has carried those hideous things for the last six months...way to ruin cake decorating! I guess it you have no imagination or talent, it's the right thing. I would have expected it from some knock off company, not Wilton.
- November 3, 2008 at 9:50 AM
I am so glad you get right to the heart of what really matters - tragicakes! This cannot be good for national morale in the midst of our financial crisis - imagine celebrating your retirement with no 401K left, and one of these CCC's to boot. I hope there is a psychological helpline number listed on the Wilton box.
- November 3, 2008 at 9:53 AM
I was just thinking of buying one of these! I wanted to try and make a thanksgiving turkey. like not the food but the actual turkey. Or something little boy themed for my nephews 5th birthday
- November 3, 2008 at 9:54 AM
- Katie said...
I for one will join you in the fight against the tyranny of cupcake cakes! I shall procure one of these dastardly kits and bring forth proof of their inferior character.
- November 3, 2008 at 9:55 AM
- All of Us said...
Maybe if you cut instead of pull the frosting it isn't so bad? Yeah, probably not.
- November 3, 2008 at 9:56 AM
Good heavens, really?!?!?! Ugh. Some will consider this the next best thing since sliced bread.
- November 3, 2008 at 9:58 AM
- Aloha Ya'll! said...
Ohhhhh. I must buy one of these for my darling daughters. They will be so happy and I will take many pictures.
- November 3, 2008 at 9:58 AM
It is, however, quite clever that they have different shaped cupcake liners to bake the cupcakes in. I can't imagine that the cupcake would actually follow a flimsy paper liner while baking, but you know, if the professionals would take a hint from that and use silicone ones, or something, I think their CCC's would turn out MUCH better.
(By the way, the word on my verification thing for the comment is "enimi." I think even the blog is trying to comment that these are the "enimi!") - November 3, 2008 at 10:00 AM
Is it awful that I think these are brilliant? Actually, don't answer that.
- November 3, 2008 at 10:01 AM
I saw this in a BB&B mailer this week! It filled me with a sense of dread and impending doom!
- November 3, 2008 at 10:03 AM
- polyurejane said...
Although it's entirely possible that this is actually a step forward...they have different shaped cupcakes allowing less awkward non-scalloped edges.
Because clearly everyone who makes cupcake cakes will jump on this and put aesthetics first. Clearly. - November 3, 2008 at 10:03 AM
These kits (if they must be sold at all) should come with a warning on the box: "WARNING! The CCC's you make will not look like the ones pictured here on this box. Not even close"
- November 3, 2008 at 10:03 AM
- Liberty :) said...
My first post to Cake Wrecks! Love your blog!! I have to comment and say CCC's don't seem to have made it across the pond to the UK yet, nevermind CYOCCC (Create your own cupcake cakes!). We are safe with standard original wrecks!!!!
- November 3, 2008 at 10:06 AM
- Jan Andrea said...
Ha hahahahaha!
I saw that in our BBB flier this weekend and thought about sending it in -- looks like I was not the only one!
Is it sad that the first thing I thought (and said to my husband!) was that the Cake Wrecks lady was NOT going to be happy about this? - November 3, 2008 at 10:08 AM
Cupcake puzzles??
~Amy B. - November 3, 2008 at 10:09 AM
- Beth said...
At least the Wilton sets have shaped cupcake holders to allow for more precise shaping. I was planning on going to Joann's today anyway; I may pick up one of these kits and have some fun!
- November 3, 2008 at 10:10 AM
- Winona said...
Better yet, see if Linens & Things carry these as well - Wrecks on Clearance!!!!
- November 3, 2008 at 10:13 AM
- Thistledew Farm said...
You've got to be kidding - this is a disaster!!!!!!!!!! I loved the perfectly pulled apart piece of the purse! This is nearly the same as trying to imitate a designer cupcake from Ladies Home Journal - where you roll out spice drops and fold into flowers or pumpkin stems - tried them both....my daughters teacher thought the eight year old did it....I was to embarrassed to tell her I'd done it....ignorance is bliss!
- November 3, 2008 at 10:22 AM
- Garret said...
I think their website advertises, "Get even with Jen; stage a revolution now."
Garret at jimandgarret.blogspot.com - November 3, 2008 at 10:23 AM
- Unknown said...
I got the BB&B flyer last week and was going to send this in! Didn't get around to it, but I'm not surprised someone else did!
- November 3, 2008 at 10:28 AM
- Poetry Sue said...
Yikes! what has the world come to?
- November 3, 2008 at 10:28 AM
uh ya....
this is wrong, just wrong!!!!
;-) - November 3, 2008 at 10:31 AM
I'd say these have the potential for lower wreckitude than the standard CCC. At least a person could, potentially, make a shape with minimal empty space between cupcakes. (If they didn't use the round ones, anyway.)
Does that mean people WILL do that? Probably not. They'll probably try, then discover that they'd need like 47 cups of each shape to make whatever they were trying to make, and give up and stick them all in randomly, making an even worse mess than with an ordinary CCC.
Also, what have I irritated everyone here by ranting about like 47 times already? TAKE THE DANG PAPER OFF. And here it's expensive silicone cups. If you take cake in 24 silicone cups to a first-grade class birthday, how many silicone cups will you go home with? - November 3, 2008 at 10:31 AM
- Jackie said...
Aren't cup cake cakes kinda like...cheating? Can't make a proper full-fledged cake, so they make cup cakes and then jam them all together into one horrific mass confection? I SAY NO! You're too right. All the "bakers" and I use that time lightly -- you make a mess of cup cakes will now be producing these "cc cakes." Oh, the humanity!
- November 3, 2008 at 10:33 AM
I should add to my rant that I do kind of like the flower cake, which, probably not coincidentally, avoids most of the evils of CCCs. Although I'm afraid its center may be a mini CCC made of six of those little triangular ones.
- November 3, 2008 at 10:34 AM
- Mandy said...
As a mom, I have to say, while the CCC makes for fantastic caketastrophe, it's extremely convenient. I've been at many a party where the crazed preschoolers stand anxiously around with plastic utensils in hand while the nervous mom sings, displays, hosts, instructs, cuts, scoops ice cream and serves all while missing her sweet birthday star's blowing-out-the-candle and icing-on-the-nose photo opps. So while I agree 100% that CCC's are an abomination to all decorators everywhere, they sure do fill a need. Go easy on us frazzled moms who need any break we can get. We're sleep deprived, and spend a majority of our time with diaper-wearing, gibberish-speaking mess machines...who can blame us for not trusting ourselves with a knife in a large crowd?
- November 3, 2008 at 10:39 AM
- Unknown said...
I am really missing something with all these cupcake cakes. What is the appeal? Is it so hard to use a knife? Why put paper into your cake when you can simply make a normal cake and cut it however you like! Is this a general trend of people not wanting to use utensils?
- November 3, 2008 at 10:52 AM
- RoseAnn said...
When I saw last week's BB&B ad, the first thing I thought of was Cake Wrecks! LOL
- November 3, 2008 at 10:58 AM
- Elizabeth said...
I actually am much more okay with these kinds of cakes than cup-cake cakes. Why?
Because these cake pieces are designed to actually fit together so there are no huge gaps for the icing to fall through and it seems like they would be the joy of a cupcake with the look of a cake, without the gigantic mess.
Plus the shapes are pre-determined so they actually would look like the thing they're supposed to be rather than some wonky scalloped edged weirdness. - November 3, 2008 at 11:00 AM
- Sup said...
Does anyone else think that the puzzle cake resembles a state of Nebraska purse? Really? Who would want that as a cake?
- November 3, 2008 at 11:08 AM
- Alexis AKA MOM said...
I'm very sad to say I'm one of the people who thought hey this could be a cool thing. Yup I even cut out that ad and put it on my fridge as a hint to my husband. LOL I know I'm one of those people. :) Hey it has to be better then some of them right?
- November 3, 2008 at 11:08 AM
- Stephanie said...
As soon as I got the flyer and saw it I immediately thought of you and cake wrecks. I was UPSET. VERY upset. I almost e-mailed it to you... but got lazy and considered the fact that several others would be sending it to you... so I spared you another e-mail. And I was being lazy, like I said. :)
Outrage, I say. - November 3, 2008 at 11:10 AM
- Mara said...
I work at (what's left of ) Linens 'n Things, and we sell 'em too.
They're hilariously awful, and if I told you how many I'd seen leave the store, you'd cry. - November 3, 2008 at 11:13 AM
- Peachy said...
Oh my gosh!!!! They ripped off that poor bear's arm!!! I'm scarred from the visual. I don't think i can eat another bear in my life
- November 3, 2008 at 11:17 AM
- Peggy said...
Okay, so I'm with the others who are more than a little disturbed at the idea of dismembering a teddy bear! When I saw the detatched limb I think I actually gasped.
That's just wrong, people. - November 3, 2008 at 11:18 AM
- Valerie Phoenixfire said...
The store I work at carries the bear pull-apart cupcake cake and when I saw it, I immediately thought of this blog. :)
- November 3, 2008 at 11:18 AM
- manchester fat acceptance said...
I think I must be particularly dense because it's Monday morning (and I live in Alberta lol), but I kinda don't get how these are puzzles...
Assembling basic geometric shapes together does NOT equal a puzzle, in my opinion.
Plus, the shapes would make interesting cupcakes, but I don't understand how they are supposed to retain the shape while cooking, unless you have special pans or something... little paper cups aren't very stiff. - November 3, 2008 at 11:19 AM
Is it just me or did the first wreck look like a bunch of jellies on top of a giant slice of ham?
- November 3, 2008 at 11:19 AM
- Mindy said...
I saw the ad this weekend and you were the first person I thought of.
- November 3, 2008 at 11:24 AM
- Andrea Frederick said...
Ahhhh....I feel doom for every 1st grade birthday party in my classroom! I need 19 sick days!
- November 3, 2008 at 11:29 AM
- Ms Unreliable said...
DIY CCC's are just a recipe for disaster. Literally.
- November 3, 2008 at 11:39 AM
Ack! how horrifying! i hope this goes the way of the bedazzler and dies out SOON!
- November 3, 2008 at 11:44 AM
- Mary Ellen said...
Oh I can't wait to see the wrecks that are submitted after people try to make some of these "puzzles".
- November 3, 2008 at 11:44 AM
- sues2u2 said...
It really looks like it would be so much easier to make an actual cake in the desired shapes than a ccc. It's just so much harder to keep the cc in the correct area while frosting. Am I the only person who's ever realized this? Maybe that's the allure of ccc?
- November 3, 2008 at 11:47 AM
- The Ferber Family said...
OMG!!! I was at BB&B YESTERDAY and I saw these! I pointed their wrecky potential out to my husband!
- November 3, 2008 at 11:53 AM
- E.A.D. said...
I predict that at least once this holiday season I'll see one of these in person. I might not have the misfortune of being served one, but I'll sure as shootin' see one. I'll have to make sure I carry my cell phone with me all the time now. And chances are, the CCC will be poorly executed - a perfect combination of wreckiness.
- November 3, 2008 at 11:57 AM
- Meg said...
I too saw these at my local JoAnns and was appalled. However, I do have to give them credit for the different shaped cups. Even though I would love nothing more than the abolishment of CCCs, if anything can cut down on the crappy scalloping it is a step in the right direction. You know if you were a glutton for punishiment you could decoarte them all separately using only the star tip, then when you put them together they won't be frosted together but it won't be as obvious where one ends and the other begins. Just a thought.
- November 3, 2008 at 11:59 AM
Well, I suppose you could remove the cupcakes from their liners and create the shape and frost the sides, right?
- November 3, 2008 at 11:59 AM
- Debbi said...
I am embarrassed to say I actually, just for a brief second, considered buying this from BB&B. But I came to my senses; I am fine now.
*hanging my head in shame* - November 3, 2008 at 12:01 PM
I saw this in the BB&B ad and almost sent it in, but I was pretty sure others would. Needless to say, CW was the first thing I thought of when I saw this. =P
<3 - November 3, 2008 at 12:11 PM
- Darth Rob said...
Just plain wrong. Color me angry! There is no way I could make them look that nice at home. This is where truth in advertising laws are required. I know I'm probably saying something everybody else already said, but honestly I just dont have time to read all those comments. Peace.
- November 3, 2008 at 12:12 PM
- bpddjeoomon said...
I'll have to decline your invitation to use them and see how awful it turns out.
I can't bring myself to purchase these..
Liz V. - November 3, 2008 at 12:40 PM
- Kaytee said...
So, I went to a birthday party where they made a cupcake cake like this (from a Wilton set) to look like a dump truck. The truck was carrying gum drops instead of boulders, and it was the cutest darn thing I've ever seen. Also, the 1 year-old, whom we were celebrating, was completely thrilled. Additionally, I'd comment that his mother was by no means a Martha Stewart, but she pulled it off beautify (if only I had photos to prove it!).
- November 3, 2008 at 12:47 PM
Reminds me of the stuffed bear that had the head, arms and legs attached with Velcro so you could rip them off when you were stressed. It was called the Dismembear.
- November 3, 2008 at 12:47 PM
First the financial collapse and now this...how much more are we expected to endure.
- November 3, 2008 at 1:00 PM
- Seraphim9 said...
Note to Kameron: Go ahead and take that Wilton class! Don't let the CCC's scare you off!
Wilton Method Instructors are independent contractors - don't hold it against us that the company has started schilling out such items. We are in it for the love of cake decorating and teaching that love to others. :-)
IMHO - I'd rather teach you how to do a full-fledged cake - or rather adorable individual cupcakes. The CCC's are pretty much made for those who just really don't want to TRY.
We'll teach you to make a cake that will hopefully never darken the doorstep of Cake Wrecks! LOL! - November 3, 2008 at 1:02 PM
Am I dreaming or has an entire entry disappeared? SATC/shoe cake?
- November 3, 2008 at 1:02 PM
- Ekio Locatiare said...
I saw these in the flyer this weekend as well and knew instantly that it would be here on the blog soon.
I'll end up owning them, but not by choice, lol. Since I'm the baker in the family, it will surely be under my tree with expectations of cute cakes....Though I might make one just to send in! - November 3, 2008 at 1:30 PM
Ooh, my first time posting! I saw these in BB&B yesterday and almost took a picture...glad to know I'm not the only one who thinks this would be a disaster. Thanks for your blog--it makes me laugh every day, and now I can't walk through a bakery without looking for a wreck!
- November 3, 2008 at 1:33 PM
- Jenster said...
I have no problem with CCC under the following conditions:
1. It's for a kid.
2. It's being served somewhere where there are no plates, knives or forks whatsoever
3. I can't think of a third.
What's wrong with individual cupcakes? - November 3, 2008 at 1:36 PM
- jackie31337 said...
All of Us: Maybe if you cut instead of pull the frosting it isn't so bad?
Maybe... but probably only if you use Play Doh instead of icing like they seem to have done for the photos. - November 3, 2008 at 1:37 PM
- Jen said...
To the foul-mouthed "anonymous" whose comment was so filled with racist slurs I couldn't publish it:
For your benefit I have hyperlinked my Pollock reference, so that you can see for yourself that he was an influential American painter. I happen to be married to a Polish man, and would never make a slur against people of Polish descent. Maybe next time you should consider consulting a dictionary before attacking someone.
Have a wrecktastic day! - November 3, 2008 at 2:09 PM
- Rima said...
Now I might have to go buy this, dammit! Foul temptation!
- November 3, 2008 at 2:14 PM
- JAMIE'S CREW said...
I am with most of the others - I got my BB&B ad in the mail and when I saw that kit - I immediately thought of this website! So funny to have logged in just now and voila! there it is on Cake Wrecks!!!!!
- November 3, 2008 at 2:23 PM
- Laura said...
I had never even heard of cupcake cakes until I read this blog. The idea doesn't seem to have caught on in the UK. Maybe that's a good thing...
- November 3, 2008 at 2:29 PM
- Stephanie said...
I saw this the other day in my BBB junk mail...yikes...of course my daughter (4) thought they were the GREATEST ever...clearly..CLEARLY I have some educating to do on the CCC.
- November 3, 2008 at 3:03 PM
If you look closely at the boxes, you will see cupcakes that are not all round thus allowing them to fit together better. Maybe this is going to save the CCC or maybe Wilton has just figured out yet another way to make money and put another one use pan in our cabinets. Don't get me wrong, I definitely think the traditional sheet or layer cake is and always will be the best.
- November 3, 2008 at 3:05 PM
While I love to see the atrociousness of ccc, can we move on? You have established that they are horrendous. What else is out there? I still love your blog though. Keep bringing us those wrecks.
- November 3, 2008 at 3:20 PM
Vote no on the CCC Education Amendment!
Seriously, though, these HAVE TO STOP. If cupcakes were meant to be REAL cakes, they would by CALLED cakes- not CUPcakes. Also, I think CCCs are tacky and inconvenient. - November 3, 2008 at 3:30 PM
- mere9 said...
huh. this confuses me. they claim it's a 'puzzle', which leads me to believe that you could make different kinds of ccc's, but really, you can't. you have to buy a specific kit. that seems to take all of the fun and creativity out of this. wow, if i had time &/or patience, i'd totally try this. i hope someone does, so we can see what it 'really' looks like.
- November 3, 2008 at 3:34 PM
- Unknown said...
Please--where is the shoe cake??? I was hoping to find an update today with a backstory! I NEED to know!!!
Hi, my name is Jenn...and I'm addicted to CakeWrecks. - November 3, 2008 at 3:43 PM
- MB said...
I feel like the worst thing about the CCC is that they deprive us of the best part of the cake: the filling. Where's the rich ganache, the german chocolate coconutty goodness, the fresh fruit with whipped cream? All gone in the name of the CCC! Bah!
- November 3, 2008 at 3:49 PM
I saw this ad yesterday and knew it was going to end up on here!
- November 3, 2008 at 3:59 PM
- Boozy Tooth said...
Poor Jen. As an art major, I knew immediately your reference was to Jackson Pollock, the painter. (There was even a major motion picture released about him a few years ago starring Ed Harris. Anyone remember?) Anyway, just like your website proves, you're bound to run into a few fruitcakes once in awhile. Thanks for the perpetually upbeat and classy way you take it all in stride.
Alixandra Hice
http://casahice.blogspot.com - November 3, 2008 at 4:21 PM
- Ms Judgemental said...
I used to work for BBB, shhh...and yesterday when I saw the ad in their holiday booklet, I thought of you! The horror!
- November 3, 2008 at 4:38 PM
I saw the ad this weekend for the cupcake disaster in the making and KNEW I would find it here. How nice to not be let down
- November 3, 2008 at 4:45 PM
I guess I am in the minority. I actually got a CCC for my daughter's birthday. The parties at our house always end up so huge (sometimes like 20 kids) I just don't want to walk thru all of them wielding a knife.
It really turned out cute. The only issue was that some of the icing slid off when I pulled out a cupcake. Then again, I'm a cake person vs. an icing person.
It's a shame I even buy cakes...growing up my mom made Wedding cakes professionally! - November 3, 2008 at 4:46 PM
I bought this for a gift.
I'm sorry. - November 3, 2008 at 4:54 PM
- fuzzandfuzzlet said...
I saw these ads this weekend and wondered how long it would take you to post on the topic ;)
- November 3, 2008 at 5:01 PM
- Erin said...
AH! I got this in the mail, and set it aside for purposes of this blog... I knew someone would send it in before I did!
- November 3, 2008 at 5:16 PM
- Unknown said...
With those funky shapes...I'd be tempted to make cupcake cakes in the shapes of various Tetris pieces. What wouldn't be too wrecktastic...would it?
And yes, the final product will come out looking /nothing/ like the picture on the box. - November 3, 2008 at 5:21 PM
- Glory von Hathor said...
I'm all in favour of cake puzzles - like a cake maze, or a cake jigsaw, or a cake Kakuro.
These are just plain ole wreckeroonies.
I thought of your blog today when at the market the fruit and veg were labelled
5 "For" £1 - November 3, 2008 at 5:21 PM
- KBK Bakery said...
well, at least the cupcakes are shaped so the CCC are a *little* less likely to be total messes, as opposed to the ones in the bakery departments that are all round cupcakes.
Still sure to be wreck-tastic, but they did try. - November 3, 2008 at 5:27 PM
- Muffin Pants said...
Vote No On Prop Puzzle Cake!
- November 3, 2008 at 5:46 PM
I actually think these are cool. Having the cupcakes in correct shapes avoid the whole making-an-odd-shape-out-of-only-circles disaster.
- November 3, 2008 at 6:05 PM
I think I'll have to try. I'm not even a baker..but I think the idea is sooo hilarious it will sure get me out of my droll mood.
- November 3, 2008 at 6:08 PM
DAMN! The only way to get that perfect break-away frosting is to cut it, and doesn't that defeat the purpose of a cupcake cake? It's now just a cake you have to cut up AND take the paper liners off. Maybe I'm just impatient when it comes to my cake, but that just sounds like a drag...
- November 3, 2008 at 6:08 PM
- Boozy Tooth said...
Me again... sorry... this is my last post today. Promise!
BUT - did anyone make the connection of the yellow butterfly puzzle cupcake cake kit and the two butterfly cupcake wrecks featured on October 20th? Proof that these kits are selling and that the results are almost too disturbing to believe. Oye. - November 3, 2008 at 6:29 PM
- Dea said...
I'd also like to address the fact that these are SILICONE cupcake molds - and I've never, EVER EVER EVER EVER had luck getting a cake or loaf of bread or whatever out of a silicone pan without tears, cursing, and half the dang thing REMAINING BEHIND....so yeah - this is so over-the-top bad...
I also immediately thought of you, and this blog, when I got that ad! I couldn't for the life of me figure out why they'd covered half the numeral 4 in fondant....LMAO! It's so NOT a purse!!! - November 3, 2008 at 6:30 PM
I totally almost sent in a picture of that first one, with the purse. It took me forever to figure out what it was supposed to look like.
I want to see what one of those things really looks like when it's finished. - November 3, 2008 at 6:47 PM
- Michelle said...
Well, let's look at the bright side here: you will never ever run out of things to blog about! And I will always have amusement at my fingertips. ;)
- November 3, 2008 at 7:14 PM
I'm not an art major - haven't even taken an art class since elementary school - and I still know who Pollock is.
- November 3, 2008 at 7:29 PM
I bet John McCain supports the cup-cake-cake!!!
- November 3, 2008 at 7:39 PM
- lawnajo said...
The "purse" is UGLY! The teddybear is kind of cute, but I agree that decapitating it would be creepy.
- November 3, 2008 at 7:40 PM
- Heidi said...
I don't understand the whole CCC thing at all. If you're making cupcakes for the convenience factor, why not just make cupcakes?? Why do they have to be (hideously) disguised as a cake anyway?? What is the thinking there? Luckily for me I'll never see one of these crazy "puzzle cakes" (uh huh, real clever naming there Wilton) because I haven't been to a birthday party in YEARS where the parents actually *gasp* made the cake. Except for my 3 kids - they still get to suffer annually with something homemade. Luckily I won't be buying the CCC pan!
- November 3, 2008 at 8:21 PM
- pippin23 said...
I was literally shown that add on Saturday. I tried really hard not to just give them the url of cake wrecks. There is no teaching some. They mean well and think they are cute in the picture... The road to good intentions.
Anna - November 3, 2008 at 8:48 PM
Don't worry....BB&B is out of bidness! The scourge will be picked up by someone else.
- November 3, 2008 at 9:17 PM
Wilton. Is. Evil. They are responsible for more wrecks than any other company. And then they offer classes to teach the masses to make wrecks. They must be stopped! And doesn't it seem weird that BBB is promoting CCCs? Seems like they should be sponsored by AAA.
- November 3, 2008 at 9:43 PM
very good blog, some how i found you researching on stuff for our sons birth defect esophageal atresia, i wish you the best.
- November 3, 2008 at 10:16 PM
- Hyena Overlord said...
My Father would never allow a ccc. He wants a big piece of cake..a quarter of the cake. Not some sissy handfuls of paper, cake and icing.
My friend bought a ccc for her son and daughters birthday party. It was a wreck. It was all individual cupcakes iced with pink and purple. The Happy Birthday was scrawled over the top of the cc with brown chocolate shiny stuff. No one thought to take a picture.
She got her money back. Hopefully, that will discourage her from contributing to the deliquency of the local bakery by encouraging them to make ccc. - November 3, 2008 at 10:29 PM
you look at this and see ccc disasters. i look at this and see cheap silicone baking cups. are these sold in canada?
- November 3, 2008 at 10:42 PM
wow...how could someone *not* know you were talking about Pollock, the artist?
and I was a bio major
to jane (early poster)
clearly, priority one. haha ;)
-bg - November 3, 2008 at 10:57 PM
- hamburke said...
I have silicone cupcake molds (we have a train and a flower pot and these funny little footed cupcakes - they were a gift). Here's the thing about silicone bakeware - if you don't remove the item from the bakeware when it's very warm (like cool for <5 min and remove), it's not coming out in one piece. This is not stressed enough in the bakeware instructions and everyone I know who uses it makes this mistake at least once. The hope in this post is that these won't last simply b/c everyone makes this mistake once and most people will give up if this doesn't work the first time when you need it to.
- November 3, 2008 at 10:58 PM
- Sara said...
Ok - this reminds me of when you see something (or someone) so weird and ugly and you can't stop looking. I am intrigued in a strange way....I must purchase this...
- November 3, 2008 at 11:03 PM
- Kelly said...
I'm so glad someone sent this to you. As soon as I looked at my BB&B ad yesterday, I thought of you. Glad the potential wrecks have been shared with the masses!
- November 3, 2008 at 11:48 PM
- Jen said...
Hi Jen,
Here's a link to daily kos explaining how to stop the anti-No on 8 ads.
HTH - November 4, 2008 at 12:07 AM
I don't think anyone else has commented yet on the fact that THE BEAR'S REAR PAWS ARE UPSIDE-DOWN!!!
I guess for some people (e.g., those responsible for the model cake & packaging photo), these really are "puzzles."
-- extrajoker - November 4, 2008 at 12:37 AM
- PiaffePlease said...
I saw these yesterday in the weekly flyers I get and I though of this blog. So funny that it shows up here the next day.
- November 4, 2008 at 1:04 AM
- Mara said...
"Don't worry....BB&B is out of bidness! The scourge will be picked up by someone else."
Actually, BB&B is still goin' strong. It's Linens 'n Things that's out of 'bidness'. - November 4, 2008 at 1:06 AM
- Camille said...
Looking beyond the whole CCC wrecktastic potential-- that we may need to appoint a national distaster team to head up, am I really the only one to notice the poor bears feet are upside down? Shouldn't his toes be on top?? I know when I sit mine still face the sky.
So see, even the perfectly, and impossibly, decorated ad is a wreck too. - November 4, 2008 at 1:32 AM
- Teapot said...
Speaking of cupcake cake...
http://www.cakejournal.com/archives/the-great-cupcake-pan-has-arrived - November 4, 2008 at 2:55 AM
Haha, I got that mailer, too, and I wondered if it would show up on your site! I figured, though, that since it wasn't billed as a professional cake decorating thing, that it might escape your radar...not so. Wreckporters are everywhere...bwahaha!
- November 4, 2008 at 5:29 AM
I did cupcakes for my son's birthday last spring, for many of the reasons another poster mentioned--no hovering with a knife, worrying about portions; kids were happy with one cupcake and didn't overload on sugar.
BUT...I refuse to make a CCC. Each cupcake was individually decorated (really, people, it's easy, just buy some premade sugar decorations and PLOP THEM ON). Kids don't really care about a fancy cake; it's more for the parents' ego than anything.
I think cupcakes are fantastic and great for a kids' birthday party. Smooshed together though, not so much. - November 4, 2008 at 7:23 AM
- cakedarla said...
I don't consider the "no knife" argument a valid justification for serving cupcake cakes. The safest and easiest way to cut a sheet cake into straight, even portions is with dental floss.
- November 4, 2008 at 8:47 AM
- Sleepwalker said...
Here's one more reader who got the witty Pollock reference immediately. Just keep believing that the educated outnumber the uneducated out there. At least among Cake Wreck readers, anyway. Please don't dumb down future posts in any way because of one ill-bred ignoramus. The unique CW brand of wit is where at least half my laughs come from.
I, too, saw this ad a few weeks ago and thought this really should go on Cake Wrecks. Imagine my satisfaction to see it here yesterday. - November 4, 2008 at 8:47 AM
- Chris said...
I can see two possible disasters right after this garbage hits the table:
1. Cupcakes pulled out with frosting that stays with the rest of the "cake," so the kid gets no frosting on his.
2. Cupcakes pulled out with frosting from two cupcakes.
Either way, it's an epic fail. - November 4, 2008 at 9:15 AM
- Izzy said...
LOL, my boss was just talking about ordering one for work! Now that I know what they look like I'm a little scared ;-)
- November 4, 2008 at 11:01 AM
- hamburke said...
anonymous re: individually decorated cupcakes - around here, we've have gone lower tech than sugar decorations: Plastic rings are the "it" thing to put on your cupcakes.
- November 4, 2008 at 1:00 PM
I'm sooo excited... I sent in the CCC making thingy pictures from the BB&B ad! When I ran across that page in the ad, I stopped reading, immediatly took a picture of it and quickly submitted it! My bf told me I had lost my mind but obviously it was worth my time cause it made it in!!
-Heather R. - November 4, 2008 at 1:01 PM
- Sticky Fingers said...
Sup - Being a native of Nebraska, I was actually quite excited upon first viewing the cake in the BBB catelog last week (where I first saw it). I was thrilled...I remember when I was in 4th grade making a cake in the shape of Nebraska for our state's "birthday." We made a sheet cake and made the state outline in M&M's. But now...BBB was offering a cake kit in the shape of Nebraska??? Brilliant, even if it made no sense at all.
Then I realized it was supposed to be a purse, and even worse...it was a CCC. I now hate it. Hate it hate it hate it. - November 4, 2008 at 3:07 PM
- Mary Lasse said...
I eagerly await the post(s) that show the products of the masses' efforts. Eagerly.
- November 4, 2008 at 3:37 PM
Ahh...at least they come in different shapes, which might avoid some scallopped edges! And, there are some cool ideas hatching in my brain that don't involve cup-cake cakes at all, but just use of the new shapes to make some cool individual cup cakes (I'm picturing Candy Corn cup cakes with those cool triangle shaped molds! That should be easy enough even for an amature like me!) Think outside the mold ya'll!
- November 5, 2008 at 10:59 AM
I got my BB&B sales circular yesterday and was going to send it in! I'm glad you have already been alerted to this horrific new product.
-Stephani - November 5, 2008 at 2:39 PM
- Dawnspring said...
I had to demo this product earlier this year for a Wilton training seminar! The product wasn't on the market yet at the time I did it, and I had forgotten about it until I saw this post. I have to send in the photo! (I also need to dig out the kit. I have it in a box around here somewheres)
- November 6, 2008 at 12:23 AM
- Christine said...
I'm sure others have mentioned this but these cupcakes come with specially designed silicon baking cups so they 'fit' together. It takes it to a whole new level!
- November 7, 2008 at 12:36 AM
Ok, I only made it about 2/3 of the way through the comments so this might have been mentioned already. Those defending these monstrosities stating that since they are shaped to fit together you avoid big globs of icing seem to be forgetting how cupcakes bake. As they rise the tops form a dome. In order to get them to look like the picture you would have to either pile on the frosting, use fondant (on cupcakes, ha), or cut the tops on them all evenly. With all this work, why is it we are not just baking cute cupcakes?
- November 8, 2008 at 10:00 PM
- MrsScrapDiva said...
That is so funny! When I saw the BBB advertisement in my local newspaper, I thought "um I wonder if I will see this on the cake wreck blog?"
- November 8, 2008 at 11:08 PM
I will say that I had to buy this as soon as I saw my 2 favorite things - puzzles & cakes - combined into one. I am not a kitchen person, but so far I put together a green turtle & a passable fish - & was then so proud of myself that I had to send a pic of each to 10 of my friends who understand that I usually have no culinary skills. :-) People definitely have to take off the silicone cup before attempting to eat the cupcake, but I actually got all the cupcake shapes back. (It was also a party of adults who ate the puzzle cake.) I was recently at a pot luck party where someone made a pretty sheet cake, and someone else made cupcakes - the cupcakes disappeared, but the large sheet cake was barely touched - the "it's too nice to cut into" excuse. Am now trying to think of what different puzzle cake shapes to arrange - I was always the type that followed Lego directions better than creating something new - sigh.
- November 14, 2008 at 12:48 AM
- Unknown said...
When I first saw that in Bed, Bath and Beyond's catalog I thought they were cute. Now that I have found your page and see what can go wrong with ccc even for professionals, I know that I will be staying away from those kits.
- December 12, 2008 at 11:12 AM
- The Whiz Kid Forte said...
Wow - and just in time for the 80th anniversary of the culprit - the founder, Dewey McKinley Wilton must've been squirming in his grave. If it weren't for him (for his cake decorating school) and his family, who made cake decorating possible anywhere, those wrecks would never have existed!
- November 4, 2009 at 3:57 PM
- The Whiz Kid Forte said...
Oh, and at least Wilton's renditions of their CCCs don't use fondant, not even the infamously (ahem) unpalatable one!!!
- December 23, 2009 at 5:16 PM
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