Those cakes are awesome! The kidney one is kind of a wreck just because they didn't try that hard but the rest are perfect. Each clearly took a lot of time and effort by the decorator and they did a brilliant job on accuracy.

As a researcher, I'd be thrilled to have any one of those at a staff party! Even the last one! I used to work in digestive diseases. Everyone would think it was a total hoot!!!

So what's with the heart? It looks like it's had a bit of an infarct there with the darker colored area on the bottom (I'm guessing dead tissue?) So is this a cardiologist's cake or is it a "Congratulations on Surviving your Heart Attack Now We're Going to Stuff You With Buttercream" cake?I also wish I could see the ugly one (let me clarify...the last ugly one) better. Is that a tourniquet on the lung? Is that even the lung? *scratches her head*These cakes look like a cruel joke the folks in Pathology would play on me.

Incidentally Jen, this may be a good lead in to your funeral cakes since these are obviously the autopsy cakes.

Hmmm. Kinda makes you wonder if a cake looking so realistic isn't just a bit over-rated. And hey!! I thought our brain was made of GRAY matter, not ground-beef-that's-been-sitting-in-the-fridge-for-four-days "pink".......I've heard of kidney pie, but kidney CAKE???? As for the cake with, er, intestinal fortitude, this too shall pass........

Ok, as a medical researcher in digestive diseases, it's not gross to me (I've seen so much worse), but they are eerily accurate and definitely weird... For some reason on that last one, I keep focusing on that white icing shell border at the bottom and want to say - Gee, that looks out of place there....

Oh dear, you've asked for it now. This thoracic cavity is the most disgusting inner anatomy cake I've ever seen. http://www.theyrecoming.com/extras/pumpkinfest03/Really, don't look at it before breakfast. Not a professional cake, but a stunning subversion of virtuosity.

I just can't get over how intricate the folds are on that brain cake! They are so perfect, and all different. Gorgeous! Although I think the hemispheres are not joined in the middle until you get down to the corpus callosum.

I wish you could enlarge the intestine cake! I'm not easily grossed out.

First of all I have to say eeeeeeeeewwwwwwwwwwwwwww! Now that I got that off my chest, I do think the first one, while bizarre, is at least well done. As for the others, the only thing that comes to mind is WTF? I guess nothing says party quite like a internal organ cake - lol.

Gross or not, I think they're all very well-rendered. Although a Sunday Sweets of "internal organs" probably wasn't coming up any time soon...I worked in a lab with surgeons for years. You'd be surprised what they can stomach during lunchtime conversation!

As a biology/neurology student, I can totally see people cutting that brain cake: "And once we've removed the temporal lobes- here's a slice for you, Jen- we can get a better view of the... oh, wait, it's all white cake textured. That DOES make it hard to identify the corpus callossum! Well, at least we have a nice frosting replica of the upper medulla..."

And the heart is pretty awesome! I've eaten chicken hearts, so I guess a cake heart doesn't bother me so much. In fact, it looks rather tasty!

The brain was enough to make me sick. I hate the squiggly ickiness of brains. And the tangle of nerve endings at the bottom? Come on. That is goshdang DISGUSTING. Now i have to go find and eat a delicious cake to put this out of my mind.

Registered nurse here. I love these cakes. Any other heath professionals out there? Notice that the heart cake has dark icing on the apex, indicating ischemia & an MI? Maybe it was made for a cardiologist.

I actually like these cakes for the most part. The brain cake is pretty impressive, but I could do without the weird squigglies. The digestive system cake is also notable, but the "Congrats Drew" message throws off the overall effect. I haven't checked, but I don't think I have a strip going diagonal on my liver.

I think these are some of the best cakes that have been featured on the site. Methinks they may have been ordered for horror and/or med-school related festivities. That intestine cake screams zombie party. The heart might come from a Poe-themed festivity. The kidney may even be connected to a dedicated Joyce fan for Bloomsday. A to the brain, kidney, and intestines; A+ to the gorgeous heart.

Those dangly bits at the bottom of the brain probably represent what would happen if you ripped the brain off the spinal cors- it's just a bunch of nerves.

Except for the kidney, all of them looked amazingly realistic. I could see them at retirement parties for a neurologist/brain surgeon, nephrologist, cardio-thoriac surgeon and GI docs retirement parties, respectively.

There's a chocolate place in town that does a realistic model of a heart; they even consulted with a nearby hospital when creating it...but it's chocolate (dark, milk, or white), not colored to look real

Oh, come on - you'll post these, but you won't post my thoracic cavity cake? (http://www.theyrecoming.com/extras/pumpkinfest03/) No fair! I admit I'm not a professional, but you admit that the heart might not be either!

And for all you doubters out there, I have served cakes just as gross as these (maybe grosser - mine ususally bleed when you cut them) to numerous people on numerous occasions, and only once did anyone refuse to eat them. He was a 4-year-old boy who was expecting a cupcake and could not be persuaded that the miniature human heart that we served him actually was a cupcake. His 2-year-old brother, however, devoured his heart cupcake with glee, after first breaking off the aorta and drinking the raspberry blood within.

I will admit that my cordial cherry eyeballs (http://www.theyrecoming.com/extras/zombiefest/index2.php) do occasionally meet with some resistance.

I'm actually kinda digging the Anatomy cakes. Maybe it's because I plan to be a nurse once I get into school, but I thnk these are mostly well done. That heart one especially is nicely made. I never thought anyone would ever make organ-themed cakes, but hey. The Internet has Rule 34, why can't cakes?

Another RN here, and I agree these are great for a hospital party or a fellow staff member birthday. The ribbon on the intestine cake is inappropriately placed, and should be moved off the organ entirely, it is taking away from the masterpiece of the human anatomy!

I guess if you can't bear for your cake creation to be eaten - this is the route you go? Or maybe they're made for research professionals who like the idea of celebrating birthdays in the lab - but know cake is not the healthiest thing to eat...

Ok, I have to admit: my friends and I occasionally hold zombie-themed parties (zombie games, zombie movies, zombie drinks), and if I could make a brain cake like that, I would do it in a heartbeat. A cold, undead heartbeat.

I'm clearly in the minority here, but I don't think these are wrecks at all. They're all (except the kidney) expertly executed. After all, you can't hold the decorator responsible for a customer requesting a gross subject matter.

I'm a pathologist and deal with this all day. What a treat to see it celebrated! I'm impressed with the anatomical correctness of it (except the brain). Oh, and that's not a lung, that's the liver.. in the last one, Leslie. So they might not be appropriate for everyone's christmas party, but are these really wrecks?

OMG! Big EW, big ICK...I guess there really IS a cake for everything. Just EWWWWW

FYI for Jen: There was an article about Sugar, Butter, Flour Bakery in the SF Bay Area newspaper San Jose Mercury, AND...included in the sidebar was: "The opposite of Ace(of Cakes): Gallery of hilariously bad professional cakes, http://cakeswrecks.blogspot.com"

I wouldn't call these "wrecks" - I think they're (mostly) gorgeously executed. The exception is the kidney - it's a little flat and malformed looking. The abdominal cavity only weirded me out because it's too *square*. Well, that and the banner draped over the liver...

(Then again, I'm an MD, so I suspect I *am* the target audience here...

I would eat any of these, and I'd buy one for an office party to if I was a surgeon or med student. They were done very well, and people who deal with these real organs all of the time would not find them revolting.

The kidney cake looks like a giant whoopee cushion to me!The heart one looks like an engine block with those fancy, hot-rod style, colored manifold thingies coming out of it; neither is something I'd want to consume, have under my hood OR in my chest cavity. =^--^=

I'm impressed and slightly disturbed by these...impressed because they look enough like the real thing to be identifiable, and disturbed because I can't imagine what occasion might call for a giant internal organ cake.

I have to agree with the other posters who pointed out that the kidney is too flat, although I am impressed with the addition of the renal artery & ureter, out of proportion though they may be...btw, I manage a nephrology practice. :)

I think it's time to remember what criteria a cake must meet in order to be considered a "wreck." "A Cake Wreck is any cake that is unintentionally sad, silly, creepy, inappropriate - you name it. A Wreck is not necessarily a poorly-made cake; it's simply one I find funny, for any of a number of reasons."

So...Yeah. These all work. *shudder*

WV: cobblept: adept at cobbling together strange decorations and calling it good. As in, those mohawk baby carrot jockeys sure were put together by a cobblept.

Oooh reminds me of a cake I may or may not have tried to send you the link to, which has a few organs in a white chocolate ribcage. Can't remember it now, don't think it was professional. But it sure was interesting... if you like to pretend you're a cannibal by making cakes look like people parts, I guess.

the brain and the heart are totally awesome...me love em long time, but then, i worked in e.r and o.r. for a million years. hospital people would love those cakes...even the intestines! yumyum num nummmy

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