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Do you know the blog Cake Wrecks? You totally should. The blogger, Jen, posts daily photos of professional cakes that have something hilariously wrong with them. Her story is neat—she was a working schmoe like you or I, but she started blogging about something she found entertaining, and now it’s her full-time job. Nice, huh?

She’s put out a book, and went on a book tour with her husband. On November 5^th, they went to the Barnes and Noble in Bethesda, and I simply had to be there. One component of the tour is that attendees were invited to make cupcake-sized replica (wreckplicas) of the cakes on her site and compete for prizes. And… I simply had to do that, too. So I chose to re-create the “dirty turkey” cupcake cake from this post. Here’s what I came up with:

Nice, huh?

I attended the event on the 5^th with my coworker Erica, and while I do believe that my cupcake was well received, it was not a winner. That’s OK. If you check out her roundup blog post, you’ll see that I had some hot competition (and you can also see Erica and I in the second row in the crowd photo!)

Despite my loss, it was a cool event. They gave a slideshow of their favorite wrecks, took some audience questions, and then signed our books for us. And there was cake! Of course.