Cake Wrecks - When Professional Cakes Go Hilariously Wrong

Jen Yates

Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing, LLC

Summary

New York Times Bestseller: Stories and photos of confectionary calamities that “will have you laughing so hard you’ll forget to eat” (The Washington Post). 
 
Have your cake and laugh at it, too, with the sweet treat known as Cake Wrecks: When Professional Cakes Go Hilariously Wrong. From the creator of the award-winning blog, here are the worst cakes ever, including the ugly, the silly, the downright creepy, the unintentionally sad or suggestive, and the just plain funny. With witty commentary and behind-the-scenes tidbits, Cake Wrecks will ensure that you never look at a cake the same way again. 
 
Jen Yates’ CakeWrecks site was a winner of a Blogger’s Choice Award for Best Humor Blog, among other honors, and for this inspired and sidesplitting collection, she gathered extensive never-before-seen material to create “a hilarious winner” (The Oregonian). 
 
“I haven’t laughed so hard in ages.” —Mary Alice, from the Food Network’s Ace of Cakes 
 
“Think of them as epic fails, with frosting.” —TheNew York Times

Available since: 07/01/2011.

Print length: 211 pages.

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