That's why I don't like that swirl job everybody's calling roses.  It reminds me of the days when you took Wilton Beginners Class and you couldn't pipe a rose to save your life, so the instructor wanting to get thru to the next technique shows you how to swirl the thing and says.. Oh that looks great, Ha!  One of us is a dummy and my momma didn't raise no dummy.  rofl

Here are my two. The first one looked bad and it cracked so I was not to happy with it. 

The Santa I made for Christmas. I realized I needed to make a cake for Christmas and I had to hurry so the details are really bad .... i ended up doing it like the night before. I was scared to cover the dome in fondant so I mixed raspberry jam with store bought icing.... I made the arms and legs WAYYYYYY to big. and the icing melted. My dad actually started laughing when the head rolled off (to heavy and so not enough support). He said "that's what happens when you drink and sled" lol it was actually funny and I don't mind laughing at my self lol

I almost fell off my chair laughing when I saw the first santa pic        We all learn from our mistakes thought.

I think I'm beginning to feel better about my cakes now...is that bad?

AI wish I would've taken a picture of my parents 40th anniversary cake. It was awful! A one layer 14" round, split & filled with straight raspberry jam - no buttercream. Then there were pillars to hold up the 8" round two layer. I ordered a flower topper for it, and it was not iced very well. Maybe I didn't take a picture because somehow I just knew I wouldn't want to remember it!

Lol I was laughing so hard to and I made that cake!!!! The russian cake is funny and my husband is russian and he gets that same goofy smile everytime he has to much vodka lol

AOh I wish I'd had a camera back in my Navy days! I once decorated a cake with chocolate chips. Even used them to spell "Happy Birthday!"

Hmmm now that I think about it, I'm glad no one had a camera!

AChocolate chip words! That's something I saw today on someone's page! And jelly beans!

JWinslow, I'm sorry, I'm not criticizing your work. I hate swirl roses, I don't think they look pretty.  I don't even do them on cupcakes.  But that's just me.  I see everybody loves them.  And if a customer came and asked for them, I'm from the ole school where the customer can get what they want.  Well, as long as they pay for it, rofl..

Karina, it took me all of 5 minutes to stop laughing.  And I actually feel better.  I've been having such a hard time today with my cake.  I'm about ready to post it and give it  my Ugly Cake of the Year award. 

Ok good! I wouldn't want to offend any one.  Even tho I know most of us are laughing at our own mistakes.

AThis one takes the cake lol

My first attempts at cake decorating were so traumatizing that I didn't try to decorate a cake again for 

2 years. 

I didn't know about Cake Central back in 2010 and so all I did was google a marshmallow fondant recipe, bought a some gumpaste mix and just decided to wing it. It couldn't be that hard right, I mean it looks so easy on Cake Challenge and Ace of Cakes. XD

So my first attempt was in 2010 for my daughter's tea party themed birthday:

I didn't let the gumpaste spout and handle dry well enough before stabbing them into the cake with toothpicks and it became misshapen and kept falling off. The fondant kept tearing and bulging oddly. I didn't wait for the fondant to dry before I tried painting it with these horrible flowers (pink and purple seems like it would blend pleasantly together, right? Well, no.) I should have practiced painting with food coloring before hand because I started painting cake for the first time ever 10 minutes before the party and it looked terrible.

In 2011 for my son's birthday I tried to make a castle cake and I got as far as trying to cover it with fondant and and gave up, threw it out, and went to walmart for the cake.

Cake Central is the best thing ever. My first couple of days here I was able to identify every mistake I made and I'm not as terrified of failure as I was before, haha. 
My first cake since this disaster actually came out pretty good and I'm attempting petit fours for the Fourth of July. <3

Metalmuffins, although I can see what your talking about, I think your teapot is quite nice.

I made this cake for the 2009 Daytona 500.  My first fondant cake.  My first gumpaste figures.  The gasman is superglued and held together with a rubberband.  This is suppose to be Dale Earnharts car.  Everything fought me right til the end.  Everybody thought it was a centerpiece so it did not even get eaten.

When I finally stopped laughing I remembered another cake I was not so proud of.  Lets just say carved cakes have not been easy for me to learn.