Sunday Sweets: Kids Cartoons!
Oct. 18th, 2026 01:00 pm![[syndicated profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/feed.png){kind=small}
cakewrecks_feedKids' shows get some of the cutest cakes, you guys. I don't even have kids, and I had a blast looking for these!
Just look at this adorable Doc McStuffins cake:
[By Valentina Pollicino in Italy]
Squee!
When I Googled the most popular kids' shows of 2018, I was amazed to see Pokémon still on the list. Good thing, though, since that means I get to show you this jaw-dropping Pikachu:
[By Le Delizie di Kicca in Italy]
The shading makes it look more like a ceramic sculpture than a cake! Also loving all the lightning bolts.
Oh hey, here's a show I've actually watched before: Miraculous: Tales of Lady Bug & Cat Noir
[By Soraia Amorim Sugar Artist in Portugal]
So impressed with the mix of 2D and 3D - plus that little ladybug & cat are adorable.
Judging by the amount of incredible Paw Patrol cakes out there, it must be a HIT with the little ones:
[By Medena Radionica in Serbia]
I like the little tower!
And speaking of popular shows, obviously My Little Pony is huuuuuge. John and I are even fans. I could do a whole post of great MLP cakes, but instead here's one of the cutest Pinkie Pie cakes I've ever seen:
[By Cakes By Ashley in Texas]
My favorite is how the flowers look like they're made of rolled-up balloon. I could totally see Pinkie making those with her stash of party balloons. :)
Here come another show I've been a fan of since the original: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
[Baker Unknown. Anyone recognize it?]
Look how fun this is, with the pizza base and that river of toxic sludge out the side! I would have loved this cake back in middle school... or heck, even today. (The reboot is awesome, I've got to catch up on it someday.)
I've seen a lot of people cosplay from this next one: Star vs The Forces of Evil
[By Andrea Bertini in Argentina]
The premise sounds hilarious in the best way, any of you watch it? I think I need to check it out.
One of my good friends has 3 young kids, and they are alllll about LEGO: Ninjago
[By Sweet Obsessions in Malaysia]
Even the figures are sugar! Wowza.
Speaking of my friend's kids, John and I got to theme her daughter's room after Elena of Avalor, so I've had a soft spot for that character ever since:
[Baker Unknown. Anyone recognize it?]
I love Elena's red-and-teal color scheme with all the bright flowers - so pretty, I want to wear them in my hair!
Years ago a reader e-mailed to tell me about this show her kids were watching: it was adorable and kind of steampunk-styled, so she thought of me. The show was called Octonauts, and now that I see this cake I want figurines of all the characters:
[By Amanda's Little Cake Boutique (new name) in the UK]
SO CUTE. Love all the soft pastels - and that submarine looks like a toy you could pick up and play with, not sculpted sugar! Amazing.
Happy Sunday, everyone! I think I'll go watch some cartoons now. :)
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P.S. Need a sweet gift for the person who has everything? Then how about a card that transforms into a bouquet:
Fresh Cut Pop-Up Bouquet, "Pumpkin Harvest"
I've been raving about Fresh Cut Paper for a while now, and they just added two new Fall designs: this "Pumpkin Harvest" bouquet:
...and a pop-up wreath!? Ohhh, this is cool:
When I send my grandmother cards she likes to tack them up up on her wall, so I just sent her this one, which is meant to hang up, and doubles as pretty Fall decor. There are more styles, too, so go see all the Fresh Cut Paper designs here.
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Entry 3087
Oct. 18th, 2026 03:00 amprijks_feedSo. Many. Grandmas.
Oct. 17th, 2026 01:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
melydiaMom-Mom spent this past week in the hospital. Apparently her calcium levels were so high they sent her to the ER. She got home yesterday afternoon. Her calcium seems to be back to normal but her magnesium is still high (I don't know anything about any of this), so she has some new meds. Jason visited her yesterday. We recently switched in-home care service providers to one without a weekly minimum. Now instead of three hours a day, seven days a week, someone is stopping by for a couple hours only three days a week. Once she's recovered from all this we'll start looking more seriously into senior communities closer to us. It seems likely she'll be walker-bound for the rest of her life, and living alone just doesn't make as much sense as it used to.
In other news, Friends & Family went well. We had a great crowd - probably about 50 people, including most of Potomac Harmony and my whole family. I'd known Jason was bringing Jo and Hanette but both Wyatt and Elliott came too, which was a nice surprise. Several former members of VF were there as well. Harmony Classic is only two weeks away but I think we're ready.
More good news on that front: Jason's letting me drive the Santa Fe to Columbus. This means I don't have to cram three people and their suitcases into my tiny hatchback! Huzzah! Jason will drive the Fusion, which is now technically Wyatt's car, while I'm gone. Wyatt doesn't have his license yet anyway.
We had a good visit with Jo and Hanette - they arrived Monday afternoon and left Wednesday evening. We introduced Hanette to Olive Garden and funnel cakes, both of which she loved. I'm a little worried about their health - neither is walking very well these days - but they seem generally happy. Hopefully we'll see them again before they head back down under next month.
In house news, we've been putting together our Halloween decorations. The ultimate plan is to turn the front porch into a haunted pirate ship. We decorated cardboard "planks" to look like wood, taped them together and affixed them to the railing on either side of the porch to look like the front and back of a ship. We have three skeletons dressed up like pirates - two in chairs and the third riding one of the bikes. There's an inflatable pirate octopus with a pumpkin bucket that says "Trick Arrrrgh Treat" on it. We have a motorized light shining on the lawn to make it look like water. The whole thing is just super fun. I unfortunately will not be getting back from Columbus until the 1st but hopefully we'll get lots of trick-or-treaters.
In other house news, Zatch gave us his old treadmill. Took a bit to get it into the house - our basement is not a walk-out, meaning it had to come in through the front door, turn, go through the basement door and down the steps, then take three more 90-degree turns before it arrived in the room where it will live. Luckily we were able to dismantle it somewhat - if we hadn't, it would not have fit through any of our doors. There's one final piece to bring inside, which will hopefully happen in the next few days. Elliott, who recently took up running, is stoked. I hope he uses it. I hope the rest of us use it, to be honest, but I have to face the reality that when given a choice between running alone in the basement and doing literally anything with Jason, I know what I'd choose. But we'll figure something out. It's a super fancy commercial treadmill that we just got for free. I'm not complaining.
Oh, one more silly little thing: in barbershop (and probably other acapella) music, when one part comes in before the other parts it's called a pick-up. It's important for the part with the pick-up to get the words right or else it can really derail the song. In Let Freedom Ring, the basses have a bunch of pick-ups in a row that all start with "let". Bonnie eventually came up with a pneumonic: LIM LIC ALE (Let Its Music, Let It Celebrate, And Let Everyone). I have found this immensely helpful and ended up drawing up a beer commercial that says, "Let Freedom Ring with Lim-Lic Ale - America's Favorite Pick-up!" I scanned in the drawing and made greeting cards for all my basses, with a message inside that says: "No Honor Flight is complete without a refreshing LIM-LIC ALE!" Miracle of miracles, all of them were present at F&F, even the four who aren't going to Harmony Classic with us, so I got to give out all the cards at once. I had been a little concerned that either people wouldn't get it or they'd think it was too stupid, but it seems at least most of the section got a good chuckle out of it. (I also mailed cards to my predecessor Kathy, who never forgot the ALE part of LIM-LIC ALE, and to my mom, whose chorus also sings this song.) I was especially pleased to be able to distribute them before our last honor flight of the year, which was yesterday. I'd done the pencil sketch months ago but it was in my study, which became inaccessible for about two months, delaying the project.
This project also raised an unexpected question: how to sign my art. I always used to write a lowercase "kw" where the w is attached to the bottom of the k, but those are no longer my initials. Jason signs stuff "Rau" so I didn't want to do that, and I couldn't get "kr" to work. Ultimately, I decided to go with KRAU, all caps because my lowercase r is a disaster that more often than not ends up resembling another letter, like n or i or v or even c. (Reminds of a physics professor I heard tales of who wrote r, v, and gamma identically.)
The boys are visiting their grandmas this weekend, which means Jason and I have more than 24 hours to ourselves for the first time in at least six months. It's divine. I mean, I wish we weren't spending it waiting for the pest control people to spray the main floor (they only did the basement last time and now we have ants) and the siding people to stop by (to give us an estimate that we're going to ignore for a while because we literally just spent tens of thousands of dollars on home repairs). But it's still quite lovely to chill with my beloved, playing video games and relaxing. He really is the best company.
When Mickey Mouse Turns Into A Real Bozo
Oct. 16th, 2026 01:00 pmcakewrecks_feedJessie ordered this cute kitty design from her bakery's book:
Her bakery ran out of the printed paper, though, and then I guess also people who know how to decorate cakes:
Yowch. And I don't think that candle placement is helping any, Jessie. Do you have any large house plants instead? Maybe a piñata or two?
Shannon ordered a Minecraft sheet cake, which usually looks something like this:
Instead, she got what appears to be an Oscar-the-Grouch skin carpet on a dirty tile floor:
Double "yowch."
And finally, Jay ordered a true classic: a Mickey Mouse cake like this:
Somehow I think Jay's baker heard "Bozo the Clown," though:
...because THIS IS UNCANNY:
Thanks to Jessie W., Shannon M., & Jay F. for that case of "mouse-taken" identity.
(Yes that pun was tortured and I'm not even sorry.)
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Going Through A Rough Patch
Oct. 15th, 2026 01:00 pmcakewrecks_feedIt's the quintessential symbol of Halloween: the Jack-O-Lantern. Fortunately, it's also one of the easiest designs for a baker to make. Just take one round cake, ice it in orange, add a cartoony face, and...voilá!
AAAEEIII!!
Er. Heh, sorry. Let's try that again.
Voila!
That's...not a cake.
[rolling up sleeves] Voila!
Is that...plastic?
Cheater.
Voila!
A Pumpkin Poo-nicorn. Well. That's a first.
[through gritted teeth] Voi-la.
What the...what IS that? Come on, seriously, there's no way you could make this thing look less like a pumpkin!
Allow me to retract that last statement.
Knock, knock.
Well? Orange you glad I didn't say "voila?"
Hm. Maybe the problem lies in trying to make the whole cake look like a pumpkin. Maybe if the baker just drew a pumpkin ON the cake...
[blinking]
Um...
[more blinking]
Voila!
Dorota, Carra M., Melody N., Shanna T., Andrew M., Ted, Donny & Amanda, Kaitlin K., & T.A., don't ask me; I'm going with "abstract jack-o-lantern."
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Holistic Medicine
Oct. 14th, 2026 11:09 pmquestionable_content_feed
don't even get her started on her ligaments
PLAY OF THE (BAKERY) GAME
Oct. 14th, 2026 01:00 pmcakewrecks_feedJohn and I play a lot of video games because we make excellent life choices, and last night was a particularly Jen kind of game. I was completely lost, fumbling around and stuck on a wall, muttering "Where am I? What room is this? WHAT IS HAPPENING?" - all in a game I've been playing for 2 years now - and John joked, "You watch, you'll get Play of the Game for this."
AND I DID.
Meaning 11 real live strangers on the internet watched an instant replay of my character walking into a wall and spinning in circles to the sound of a triumphant victory fanfare, all with my user name emblazoned onscreen in giant glowing letters.
John actually got light-headed, he laughed so hard. I had to remind him to breathe.
My point here, of course, is that brainless moments of personal embarrassment should always be witnessed - nay, celebrated - by strangers on the internet.
OH HEY LOOK:
And my personal favorite:
[plays Triumphant Victory Fanfare]
Thanks to Katherine V., Carolyn H., Mindy V., Stacy M., & Alicia F. for making me feel much better about my video game skills. And yes, to my fellow gamers looking for confirmation: it *was* Overwatch. TOR MAIN FOREVAHHHHH.
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P.S. Need a cool gift for the person who has everything? Then how about a card that transforms into a bouquet:
Fresh Cut Pop-Up Bouquet, "Pumpkin Harvest"
I've been raving about Fresh Cut Paper for a while now, and they just added two new Fall designs: this "Pumpkin Harvest" bouquet:
...and a pop-up wreath!? Ohhh, this is cool:
When I send my grandmother cards she likes to tack them up up on her wall, so I just sent her this one, which is meant to hang up, and doubles as pretty Fall decor. There are more styles, too, so go see all the Fresh Cut Paper designs here.
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October 14th, 2026: This comic was inspired by the ocean!! And also the bad hotel I stayed in lol but mostly the ocean. – Ryan | ||
These Vintage Birthday Cakes Are Awesomely Bad
Oct. 13th, 2026 01:00 pmcakewrecks_feedWere the good ol' days of cake decorating REALLY better?
And more importantly, can Jen find an excuse to post some of the rad vintage birthday cakes you guys have been sending in?
Let's find out, with...
EPIC CAKE BATTLES OF HISTORY!!
THEN:
I pity the fool who doesn't recognize Hulk Hogan & Mr. T.
VS
NOW:
THEN:
VS
NOW:
THEN:
VS
NOW:
"I stopped listening after 'cabbage'."
(Yup, it's cake. Cabbagey, cabbagey cake.)
THEN:
VS
NOW:
THEN:
VS
NOW:
Who WON? Who LOST?
YOU decide!!
And keep sending in those vintage birthday cakes, because seriously, these things are amazing.
Thanks to Robert T., Elizabeth B., Jason R., Tiki C., Jason R., Kristi C., Lindsay S., Karen H., Susan M., & Brittany J. - and a hat tip to Epic Rap Battles of History for all the lolz.
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P.S. Here's a fun gift for the kids in your life this spooky season:
Little Blue Truck's Halloween Board Book
It's interactive with lift-the-flap surprises and has over 10,000 5-star ratings!
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Listening And Learning
Oct. 12th, 2026 10:03 pmquestionable_content_feed
Hannelore can speak instagram sans
The Spoopy Problem With October Birthdays
Oct. 12th, 2026 01:00 pmcakewrecks_feedA few of you remarked on my use of the word "spoopy" on Epbot, so I'd just like to point out that's totally a thing people say and/or write on cakes:
See?
However.
Like all fun new lingo we youngin's use [WHAT I'M YOUNG], this may confuse some of the less hip, less "with it," less "I have a Tumblr account and I know how to use it" crowd.
So just to be clear, bakers, "spoopy" is something you SAY, not something you try to illustrate:
o.0
And you thought having a birthday near a major holiday was crappy.
BONUS SPOOPAGE!
To the utter shock of absolutely no one, it turns out I have TWO spoopy birthday ghosts. This one is cuter, but more confusing
I mean, why is the ghost spitting out poopy Junior Mints?
Or wait... WAIT.
Are those... Peppermint Patties?
I can't wait to reblog this on Tumblr once I get an account and figure out how to use it.
Thanks to Regina S., Brian M., & Amy S. for the minty fresh spoop.
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Sunday Sweets: Rich & Rustic Autumn Jewels
Oct. 11th, 2026 05:36 pmcakewrecks_feedOrange is my favorite color, so I am ALL about Fall, y'all.
It's not just the warm colors, though; I love rich jewel tones and gleaming metallics:
[By Arte & Sabor in Costa Rica]
Not to mention the natural touches of tree bark and dried leaves:
[By Bellaria Cake Design in the Netherlands]
It's all so elegant, but manages to feel welcoming at the same time - like a warm hug that smells of spices and rain. Mmmm.
Check out this gilded beauty with her sugar marble base:
[By Have Some Cake in the UK]
Fit for an Autumn Queen!
This mossy number has the sweetest succulent accents:
[By Chiki New York]
I love how bright and modern it is - and those curled ferns!
Have you noticed all the pale aqua touches in the Fall decor hitting stores right now? It's so unexpected, but I freaking love it. Especially when you pair it with copper or warm golds, like this:
[By Sonja Mclean, who has a tutorial here!]
Hnnnng. So good.
Check out the hanging wedding rings on this cutie:
[By Asli of Mutlu Gün Kurabiyecisi in Turkey]
D'awww. So fun!
Autumn needs more purple, right? Especially purples like this?
[By Nix Kitchen in Malaysia]
Those greenery swags make the whole cake!
I need to see someone slicing through this sugar "bark"; it looks too real!
[By That Little Cake Place in the UK]
WOWIE. I just... I just want to poke it.
SOMEBODY PLEASE POKE THE CAKE FOR ME.
Oooh, these rough scraped metallics are speaking to my soul:
[By Have Some Cake in the UK]
Those red streaks? And the way the gold blends right into the cake board? And just, you know, all of it? ::knowing nod of extreme approval::
This last one is definitely filled with Autumn Magic, gang, because it is straight up levitating:
[By Shelby Elizabeth Cakes in Texas, featured here.]
I'll just be over here collecting my jaw off the desk.
I hope these made you smile! Happy Sunday!
Well, THAT'S Handsy
Oct. 9th, 2026 01:00 pmcakewrecks_feedYou know those cringe-inducing pregnancy photos where the mom-to-be's mostly naked and the shirtless dad is standing behind her caressing her belly, and all you can think is how you don't even like going to the pool in a bikini, but here they are, all up in yo' Facebook feed, smirking the smirk of the freshly procreated?
Well, doesn't that sight make you, like, totally hungry?
NEEDS MOAR HANDS.
If you'll excuse me, Katie A., I'll just be over here screaming forever. (And they're saying my doll-and-butcher-knife mobile is creepy. YEESH.)
PS - I just had a lengthy conversation with John about that ring and hand placement. That has to be the pointer finger, guys. IT HAS TO. Otherwise, ouch.
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sherlock holmes and the case of the missing cookie
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