Read here about the book signing I attended for the fantabulous and hilarous new Cake Wrecks book based on one of my all-time favorite blogs. This book is really funny, as you can imagine, and it's got tons of stuff not on the blog. It is of course in the same spirit of the blog, funny without being mean spirited, family friendly and utterly silly.If you've read the blog, you'll know how awesome Jen is with her commentary. She's added stories and oodles of new photos. There's a whole chapter on CCCs (cupcake cakes, ptooey), an ode to baby bottoms and "gut-wrenchingly awful, with a snide of snickering schadenfreude" wedding cake wrecks. To be honest I'd never even heard of groom's cakes before this blog, or it might have been the cake shows I obsess over. In this book we've got the question of which you'd rather eat, "a slimy whole fish or a fuzzy, month-old pickle?" Yum.
I'm not going to post any of her cakewrecks here, but here are some of my own highs and lows.
Pigs by me and Soccer cake by Brian, not to shabby. These were two of Donovan's cakes.
Two very busy Star Wars cakes for Keegan's 3rd birthday. Yes, I made one cake for preschool and one for a party at home.
It's Dialga, can't you tell?
And my masterpiece!
It's Dialga, can't you tell?
And my masterpiece!
Get it, it's a fun book. Support your local bookseller, get it on sale at Amazon, or to win your very own autographed copy of Cake Wrecks: When Professional Cakes Go Hilariously Wrong leave a comment below, describing in detail a wrecked you've had made. No, I'm kidding, just leave any old comment by midnight next Saturday, 10/10 and I'll randomly pick a "winner."
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9 comments:
I'm a wanna-be professional pastry chef and just checked out this site. Amazing! And I love the ET cupcake made at the Denver book tour! Thanks for the book giveaway!
I'm a wanna-be professional pastry chef and just checked out this site. Amazing! And I love the ET cupcake made at the Denver book tour! Thanks for the book giveaway!
And apologies for the double entry...I wasn't signed in as myself!
I'm unfortunate enough to have a grocery store nearby that makes only cute, but un-extraordinary cakes, so I will never have an opportunity to submit anything to Cake Wrecks. My favorite are the Sunday Sweets she puts up. Some of those cakes are amazing! I've been a faithful Cake Wrecks reader for a long time.
Watching Duff and Mary Alice and the gang on Ace of Cakes is my guilty pleasure. I'd love to win this book, thanks for the giveaway!
I love making cakes, well more cupcakes lately. I've never had a huge wreck, but maybe I'm too conservative in my assessment of my ability, so I don't set myself up for failure. I can't wait to check the book out, hopefully I'll be the lucky one.
Oh how I love Cake Wrecks-- that site puts a smile on my face each and every day. (Well, except for recently as I read about the illnesses they both have come down with while on the book tour!)
I have tried to make special cakes for all my kids' birthdays, and some have been cute (ladybug, kitty, Star Wars molten lava place scene), and others have been, uh, not so cute (melted turd-like balloons, round 2 layer doggy cake that kept sliding apart at the layers...) Thanks for the giveaway!
I love CakeWrecks and I really want the book! I don't have a real wreck story, but once my son asked for a cookie cake for his birthday and I somehow made one -- which he then didn't eat. Or then last year he asked for a donut cake because he likes donuts better than cake -- and so I made him that! It looks kinda like a wreck...
I am so sorry it took me so darn long to take care of this giveaway. I have picked a winner! I used random.org from 2-6, so you all had an awesome chance. The winner was # 6. I will post and send to the winner, Sarah.
Hello, Very cool blog as much as foreign direct investment . I love books. Reading is the main key to learning and we must encourage this since the kids are small ...
Great blog
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