Post Your Worst Cake!! (Cpntinued Since After The Crash)
Decorating By ceshell Updated 13 Sep 2014 , 9:25pm by Lizzybug78
I just came across this thread...sure don't know how I missed it. I got one for you. This was my first try at a topsy cake. I had no clue! The very top layer broke, so it's missing that. I used dowels in the bottom but after putting it together I realized I forgot the board in between! Duh! The stupid thing began to sink over top the dowels! Later in the day I heard a noise in the kitchen...went out and realized the whole top half slid off and right onto the floor! Thankfully it was only practice....the cats sure loved it!! LOL
I didn't make this one, but my sis did. After I took my Wilton classes she was inspired to try her hand at decorating as well, and so she played around with trying to make a Jack-O-Lantern cake for mom's work.
Well, she was going for scary and got it, but not in the way she intended...
This thread is halarious~! 
The russian and this jack-o-lantern are too funny for words.. You all are braver than I... I don't think I took any pictures of my cakes till I got over crying at looking at them...... 
I think the moral of the story with The Russian and Pumpkinhead are...Sisters of CCers should not be allowed anywhere near spray on food coloring 
I have plenty of ugly cakes I've made in the past too, but no pictures of them. I now want to purposefully make an ugly cake! I think that would be fun! 
I think the moral of the story with The Russian and Pumpkinhead are...Sisters of CCers should not be allowed anywhere near spray on food coloring
I have plenty of ugly cakes I've made in the past too, but no pictures of them. I now want to purposefully make an ugly cake! I think that would be fun!
I was just about to say the same thing! That was SOOO funny... Yay for a friend for the Russian!
Okay, another couple pictures from me! This one was a combined effort between my sister (who made the Russian cake) and myself four years ago for my little brother's birthday. She DESIGNED it, and I tried to decorate it. She wanted to try tiers. Like so many others, we didn't know about DOWELS or SEPERATOR PLATES... Nor did we know that you're supposed to ice each layer SEPARATELY. So we just stacked it, (with a thin layer of buttercream inbetween each layer) and then tried to ice it three different colors. HOWEVER, we'd mixed all the colors ahead of time, but didn't make enough of each one, and didn't want to make MORE icing. SO, as you can see with the first one, we just kind of smeared the leftover colors down the back/sides. So all the colors are kinda smeared together on the borders between layers AND in the back, LEANING badly, SO not smooth, storebought letters... Actually, about halfway through, we realized it was going to be BAD BAD BAD, so we didn't try too hard to make it smooth, because it was still gonna be hideous...
The letters actually USED to say "Happy Birthday", but we broke some, and just rearranged them, so now it says "Boy, I Had a party". We decided it looked like someone had had a "party" BEFORE the decorating phase... We laughed, little bro loved it, and we ate it all. Mmm.
You know what, the more I look at this, the more I realize that there's not enough Viva towels in the WORLD to save this thing...
Lol...kansas...no viva paper or melvira method would save it!..But it has made this thread a very good one. Now were are the other uggly cakes people...I am sure there is more! This cake I am posting might not be the uggliest cake. But...think about it..Looks like the bottle of pepto bismol threw up on it!...Might I add..it had a fountain underneath an pink flowers in between an top of all layers.
Talk about sweet 16 pepto cake! 
Edna
Ok, my turn.
This is seriously my first cake ever. I have no idea why I volunteered to make a baby shower cake for a girl at work. To make the bow, I followed the directions on the back of the Wilton fondant box... probably my first mistake! That poor bow!! And I love how the foil and scotch taped cake board reflect the light onto the cake... so beautiful. How on earth did I have the courage to show up with this thing??
And it was shortly after that I discovered CC. Thank God for that!!
Sorry, the poor bow made me giggle... Oh my, looks like most of my Christmas packages after my almost-two-year-old gets ahold of the bows!
OK, Here are 2 of mine.... the bad Barney was from a number of years ago when I was new at carving - poor Megan! Hope she wasn't afraid of him!
OKAAAAY! Barney just SCARES me!! 
Is that blood on his hand? 
And DaisyLisa17, your bow is so little and sad. It makes me want to cry.
Ok, here's my first attempt at buttercream roses, or should i say cabbages? This has to be the ugliest cake i've ever taken a picture of. i've done alot worse, but didn't have the heart to photograph them! it's so funny, though, i was so proud of myself and thought this was sooooo wonderful! unfortunately, my roses still look alot like cabbages. never could get the darn things to resemble flowers!
Darn, I wish I still had the pic of my worst cake! I deleted all evidence of it's existence, so I cannot share the glory of it's hideousness with you all. 
It was supposed to be an underwater cake with little fish. The fish looked like the colored goldfish snacks, but only if they lived in a polluted pond. Oh it was terrible.
And YAY, cakemuggle is catching on!
Okay here is mine. But hey, at least I knew when to quit! How could you guys keep decorating those uhhh...ummm "cakes??" ?
I gave up on my first and only attempt at topsy turvy. It just sort of had an under-the-fondant earthquake or something and started sagging and cracking and bulging and Well, you can see.
And I made this masterpiece just a few months ago so I can't claim beginner's ignorance. It was supposed to be the topsy-turvy version of my cow cake. I started over and made it regular stacked. Here is the picture of the second (and thankfully much better) one.
I was reading this thread with my husband and we both just busted out laughing over the Russian! Hillarious! It is definitely in 1st for me, but the jack-o-lantern is 2nd.
I too tried to follow the Wilton fondant bow instructions for my 1st fondant cake...it was also very sad looking. Unfortunately I can't find the picture.
Thanks for all the laughs
I love the pretty cow cake my daughter-n-law would have a fit over it..I think the russian has it hands down.
I can't believe I am posting this but I think the Russian needs a girlfriend. This is Dora the Mermaid that lived in the water where the refineries dumped there toxic waste and mutants were born. LOL! SCARY!
I can't believe I am posting this but I think the Russian needs a girlfriend. This is Dora the Mermaid that lived in the water where the refineries dumped there toxic waste and mutants were born. LOL! SCARY!
Now I am scared...Is The russian went fishing for a mermaid!
Hahaha! I love this thread. I laughed so hard when I saw the Russian I had to go pee and stubbed my toe on the way and now I'm limping. All worth the laugh! Just thought he would be lonely so I gave him a girlfriend.
Ok, so we have Creepy Russian Guy in the lead, followed by Crackhead Barney with the somewhat Evil Pumpkin behind that. The only thing that would top that is if they had a cake that said "Boy I Had a Party".....oh...wait... they do have a cake like that.
So I guess the story goes like this: Crackhead Barney, Creepy Russian and Evil Pumpkin were going to have a party, but with none of them being cake decorators, they decided to have someone make them a cake and the cake said "Boy I Had a Party". Was "Mer-Thing Dora" going to be the "entertainment" or a guest at this little crazy train party? J/k guys. I think this is our little therapy forum for posting the pictures that make us want to curl up in the bed with a bowl of batter, watch Ace of Cake reruns and cry it out.
Happy Caking Ya'll
Em
Oh wow... I don't think I've laughed so hard over a page of posts in a LOOOONG time! Dora the Hutt... The story of the party... HA!!! I'm glad my penchant for taking pictures of bad cakes has finally paid off!
ok here is mine, i am SO EMBARRASSED....tried to freehand tinkerbell for my daughter's 4th birthday, everything turned out besides her face and hair... i got so discouraged that i just said hell with it with the flowers....i can't believe i'm posting this LOL. She looks like tinkerbell on drugs at age 40
You guys are killing me! Do you REALIZE how hard it is not to laugh out loud when I'm at work?!
when I started decorating, I kept a nice little album of all of my cakes and there are some really BAAAADDDD ones in there. There are 3 that come to mind that I would like to go back to these people and remake their cakes for them. Okay, I only made the cakes about 17 years ago so I'm sure I remember the cakes better than they do.
If I can ever find the album, maybe I'll put a little sunshine in someone elses day with my bad photos but I still don't think I can top the russian, or bad Barney, or Dora the Hutt. They kill me!
Thanks to everyone for sharing your less than stellar creations so we can all get a laugh. 
Got another one...
We've been potty training my son, but he refised to have a BM in the toilet. He loves cakes and always wants to taste the ones he sees me make (except that they are usually for other people), so I had promised him his very own cake if he would do a BM in the toilet. Well, he finally did -- right before bedtime.
So I rushed around throwing a cake together. I made a blue marbled French Vanilla. I made some Cookies 'N Cream filling from a batch of orange icing I had in the freezer -- looked like Halloween! I didn't have enough icing to frost it, so I grabbed some frozen icing plugs from previous cakes and tried to decorate a plain cake. Mostly I just wanted to hide the filling part. But the cake was still warm, so the side border kept falling off. He was standing next to me the whole time begging to eat it, so I finally just wrote on the top and stuck some candles in for him. Truly my worst looking cake yet -- but it tasted good! 
holy cr*p! I can't stop laughing!
I haven't laughed that hard in so long that I can't remember
while I don't think that I can 'beat' the Russian... I thought I'd add to the 'cow pile'
I made this for my DH on his birthday at my mom's house with her devil dog... seriously the dog is on mood modification meds!... I attempted to make a deal with the dog not to mess with my cake... frakin' dog took a bite out of my cake at 2 am!!! while it was cooling. 
no deal. so a round cake became a rectangle cake and I just eyeballed the size and well nothing seemed to line up and it started to slide apart, then when I came back in the morning it was a mess! I did have pretty chocolate tools to put on it, but it's a little like lipstick on a pig...
poor hubby. 
OMG! I just found this thead... it's nearly midnight here and I'm CCing instead of sleeping, I just wanted to say that I am laughing so hard I might wake up the family! Love the comments girls, you crack me up!
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