Cake Wrecks facts for kids
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Type of site
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Entertainment photoblog |
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| Available in | English |
| Owner | Jen Yates |
| Website | http://cakewrecks.com/ |
| Commercial | Yes |
| Launched | May 2008 |
Cake Wrecks is a fun website where people share pictures of cakes. These cakes are made by professionals, but they often look funny or strange by accident! The website started in May 2008. Jen Yates, who created the site, got the idea after seeing a picture of a cake. It had a message that was supposed to say "Best wishes Suzanne, underneath that, we will miss you." But the baker wrote it exactly as typed: "best wishes suzanne, under neat that, we will miss you". This made Jen realize how funny cake mistakes could be!
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The Story of Cake Wrecks
Jen Yates lives in Orlando, Florida. She started looking for pictures of cakes that were "silly, sad, creepy, or just not right" by accident. She put these pictures on her new blog, Cake Wrecks. At first, she thought she would quickly run out of funny cake photos.
How Cake Wrecks Became Popular
But soon, many people started sending in their own "Wrecker" photos. This showed Jen that funny cake mistakes happen all the time in the baking world! Some cakes even had pictures of sonograms (baby scans) or messages like "i lave you" instead of "I love you."
The New York Times newspaper called Cake Wrecks an Internet phenomenon. This means it became very popular very fast! Mary Alice Yeskey, who works at Charm City Cakes, said bakers check the site every day. They want to make sure their own cakes don't end up there! On Sundays, Cake Wrecks shows off amazing edible art instead of funny mistakes.
Awards and Recognition
By the end of 2008, about 100,000 people visited Cake Wrecks every day. The website won two big awards that year. It won the Blogger's Choice Award for Best Humor Blog. It also won the Weblog Award for Best Food Blog.
In 2009, Cake Wrecks won even more awards at "The Bloggies". It was named Best Food Blog again. It also won Best New Weblog and Best Writing of a Weblog.
Cake Wrecks in Books
In 2009, Jen Yates put together many of the funny cake photos into a book. It was called Cake Wrecks: When Professional Cakes Go Hilariously Wrong. This book became very popular. It reached No. 9 on the New York Times Best Seller list for hardcover advice books.
A second book, Wreck the Halls: Cake Wrecks Gets "Festive", came out in October 2011.
