Ms. Yates, a 31 year old woman who runs a specialty painting company with her husband in Orlando, Fl has become some what famous for her blog where she posts and talks about pictures of "baking train wrecks." Ms. Yates receives about 50 to 60 cake wreck pictures a day but chooses one to post every morning. By last fall Ms. Yates had received over 100,000 viewers a day. The blog consists of pictures of cakes that were supposed to be one thing and turned out horribly wrong, as well as silly misspelled words. One cake had "Happy 3th Birthday, Evan" written across it, while another stated “Contralulation’s Ronan.” Other times things just get miss communicated over the phone, such as this one:
Best Wishes Suzanne
Under Neat that
We will Miss you
Ms. Yates had stated that she gets quite a bit of hate mail from viewers that have found their cakes posted on her blog. She said that she's not out to get anyone but just to make light out of silly situations that happen in everyday life.
I thought this article was so funny. The things people mess up on in every day life are over looked but when you put it on a cake, it becomes much more obvious. The article gives so many more mix ups and funny stories that I didn't post about, but her blog sounds hilarious. I have seen some really ugly cakes before and I too always think to myself what were they thinking? Ms. Yates has also been able to make her story into books, and has very much made a name for herself. It's funny how something so silly such as this can make someone so much money and get people so interested.
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That's so cool that she started a blog like that. Everyone makes mistakes and sometimes they are funny. I hope none of my cakes will ever show up on her blog. :)
ReplyDeleteI can't find the site right now for some reason, but there is one of these for tattoos gone wrong too. How great is that? Miss-spelled tattoos, Japanese lettering tattoos that don't say what the wearer thought, some that just turned out really poorly, and don't forget the classic, ex-lovers' names that will always be there as a reminder.
ReplyDeleteAs for cakes though, at least it's just a cake. If it doesn't turn out looking right, at least it still tastes good. Re-make it for looks and eat the other one!
This is cute. This woman obviously has a passion for cake, and I think it is great that she blogs about it, the best thing to blog about is something you love. As for the mishap cakes, how funny!
ReplyDeleteI think Ms. Yates blog idea is a great one. The messed up cakes and misspelling is humuring. If something can put a smile on someone's face they have done a good thing.
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