Ugly cake ideas

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"Today we have all gathered together to celebrate Paul’s success. We lads are greatly fond of Paul, and now that he is departing from our bachelor midst we must try to comfort ourselves with the thought that we are not losing a friend, but gaining a Linda. Looking at it like that, what a bargain we’ve got."

Perhaps inspired by the award-winning film "Steel Magnolias," which featured a wedding cake that looked like an armadillo, people often get a kick out of creating ugly cakes. When Jen Yates' blog "Cake Wrecks" became so popular it was turned into a book, the term "cake wrecks" became common parlance, and the race was on to turn a cake into the most hideous thing ever.

1. Basic Ugly

   • A good-looking cake is symmetrical with an attractively textured exterior. An ugly cake, then, is asymmetrical with an unaesthetic exterior. Keep this principle in mind as you design for ugly. Asymmetry can be achieved by offsetting layers, using an atypical baking container, tilting the baking pan while it is in the oven or leaving the cake mix incompletely blended. Once the monstrosity emerges from the oven, you can slather on an icing. Remember that ugly can be achieve with a sickening color or a terrible excuse for consistent texture. Applying the icing while the cake is hot and allowing it to melt off onto the sides is one excellent method for a really bad exterior.

   The Art of Bad Taste

   • There are several categories of ugly. Offending a sense of propriety can enhance the ugliness of any cake. A one-year-old's birthday cake is iced in a urine-yellow and topped with a giant "1" candle that looks like a tombstone. Plastic can be both ugly and offensive with very little work. A wedding cake iced in pink and aquamarine is accented with a naked Ken and Barbie doll, each plunged thigh deep into the top of the cake with the icing barely covering their nether-parts. Toy soldiers and baby-bottle nipples can add particularly hideous accents to any cake, if you just use your creativity.

   Go Bizarre

   • The armadillo cake in "Steel Magnolias" was certainly tasteless and ugly, but it went beyond that. It achieved bizarre ugly, especially with its lifelike gray icing and finely colored facial features, followed by a blood-red interior that came to light as the cake was cut. In the bizarre category, you can place the divorce cake with the bride doll standing over a slaughtered groom, bloody butcher knife in hand. If that doesn't fit the bill, think about cakes that ooze. Colors should be selected at random, but the appearance of oozing is critical.

   Go for Disgusting

   • Halloween is an occasion for the really creepy cake. The thorax cake might be the best example, where a set of lifelike and bloodied ribs surround thoracic and abdominal organs, each organ filled with a fruit pudding of the appropriate color. Other disgusting themes include the dead-crow cake, the decapitated head cake, the rats-eating-a-severed-arm cake, and last but not least, the kitty-litter-box cake. When going for the digusting, always remember that chocolate has nearly infinite possibilities.

Source: www.ehow.com

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