1 day ago · A Wreck is not necessarily a poorly-made cake; it's simply one I find funny, for any of a number of reasons. Anyone who has ever smeared frosting on a baked good has made a Wreck at one time or another, so I'm not here to vilify decorators: Cake Wrecks is just about finding the funny in unexpected, sugar-filled places. In fact, Cake Wrecks has already spawned a best-selling book (“Cake Wrecks: When Professional Cakes Go Hilariously Wrong,” Andrews McMeel Publishing), which features dozens of fan favorites, as well as lots of never-before-seen “wreckage.” Failure interviewed Yates about the blog, the book, and her all-time favorite cake wreck. · Jen Yates, the founder of Cake Wrecks, one of my all time favorite blogs, has graciously agreed to do an interview about cakes, the universe and everything. But first: the book. As I'm sure you all probably already know or can guess, Cake Wrecks: When Professional Cakes Go Hilariously Wrong is obviously about cake carnage.
) Book Description Publication Date: Octo Award-winning blogger Jen Yates has focused on confectionery calamities at her popular Web site bltadwin.ru since May , while her debut book, Cake Wrecks: When Professional Cakes Go Hilariously. Submit Your Wreck. If the photo (not necessarily the cake) belongs to you, submit it here.* Submit Someone Else's Wreck. If the photo does NOT belong to you-you found it online, for example-then submit it to notmywreck(at)bltadwin.ru* Professional Inquiries and Casual Comments: Contact Jen. Write to Jen at comments(at)bltadwin.ru bltadwin.ru: Cake Wrecks: When Professional Cakes Go Hilariously Wrong () by Yates, Jen and a great selection of similar New, Used and Collectible Books available now at great prices.
Jen Yates' book, Cake Wrecks: When Professional Cakes Go Hilariously Wrong, made it to the New York Times most popular emailed list this week. Yates' book is flying off the shelves at bookstores and online booksellers, and the reason IS hilarious. "As Ms. Yates, 31, defines it, a Cake Wreck is 'any cake that is unintentionally sad, silly, creepy, inappropriate — you name it,'” says the New York Times in Tuesday's article, When the Icing on the Cake Spells Disaster. When Jen Yates began posting photos of cakes gone wrong at bltadwin.ru in May , it was mostly for her own amusement—“an outlet for my snarky side,” she says. Visitors were few and far between at first, but within months the blog found an audience of “wrecktators,” and today it’s a full-time job for Yates, 31, who lives in Orlando, Florida, with her husband of 11 years. A Wreck is not necessarily a poorly-made cake; it's simply one I find funny, for any of a number of reasons. Anyone who has ever smeared frosting on a baked good has made a Wreck at one time or another, so I'm not here to vilify decorators: Cake Wrecks is just about finding the funny in unexpected, sugar-filled places.
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