'Cake Wrecks,' 'This Is Why You're Fat' - New Food Humor Books

by Sara Bonisteel, Posted Oct 14th 2009 @ 4:00PM

cake wrecks and this is why you're fat books Photo: Sara Bonisteel

We've long been fans of Jen Yates' fantastically funny food blog, Cake Wrecks, so we were mighty pleased to find the she's finally assembled enough disastrous misspellings, ill-conceived concept cakes and just downright nasty icing snafus to fill a whole book, "Cake Wrecks: When Professional Cakes Go Hilariously Wrong."

Also on bookshelves this month, Jessica Amason and Richard Blakeley's "This Is Why You're Fat: Where Dreams Become Heart Attacks."

See our favorites from both tomes after the jump.

sexual harassment cake Photo: Sara Bonisteel

This is the photo that made us cheer hooray for Cake Wrecks. "This clearly calls for a celebration!" Yates writes of this strange cake. Yates has nearly 200 pages filled with the horrors of professional cake making ... from the pregnant lady belly cakes to the CCC or cupcake cake.

this is why you're fat Photo: Sara Bonisteel

Amason and Blakeley meanwhile have a much shorter look at the monstrosities upon which they blame the American obesity epidemic. There's the Gluttonator, Bacon Beeritos and the Happy Meal Pizza, so perhaps the Hot Beef Sundae isn't to blame.

Do you have any favorite food abominations? Let us know in the comments below.

Filed under: Food Oddities, Guilty Pleasures, Books
Tags: books, cake wrecks, cake wrecks blog, CakeWrecks, CakeWrecksBlog, food humor, FoodHumor, guilty pleasures, jen yates, JenYates, oddities, this is why youre fat, ThisIsWhyYoureFat

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