Would you be grossed out by homemade baked good in care package?

And dry and tasteless. I bake, and bought stuff is never half as nice, and full of additives.

But people still won't know who made them or where they were made!

Eww. UPF and full of crap

My Mum only recently stopped baking for things like that and she is 92. She has always had exceptionally good hygiene standards. Not all elderly people have grubby kitchens.

I think that's lovely and I'd eat it. I've been to weddings where the favours were homemade jams and marmalades made by the bride. It's a nice touch I think

OP have you tried making them with gluten free flour and if so, how did it work out? Asking for a friend 👀

Also I love a home baked goodie. No issues according to me.

Probably better to buy mini cakes in sealed packages and include in the care package. At least it won't be thrown away so no money wasted on ingredients etc.

Could you include a label stating ingredients, "may contain nuts."
And something like "made with love in an extremely clean kitchen, strictly adhering to all food prep hygiene regulations." This would make me personally feel a lot better about eating them. I'd also put them in little cute boxes or sealed bags wrapped with ribbon, or rustic style brown paper string etc.

So you never eat at a friends’ or relatives’ house?

I have never ever known someone not wash their hands after changing a shitty nappy or using the loo. Who are your friends?

I have however been waiting for the toilet at a restaurant which had a sink in the waiting area not the toilet area and seen the chef come out of the toilet and not wash their hands.
ditto similar on holiday when the toilet facilities that was used (as witnessed as such by all the waiting and kitchen staff) had no soap at all available. (I challenged them on this and ended up refusing to eat any food and we all left)

So basically yoh take your chances.

OP my main issue would be that if I’m enjoying a fancy hotel AND a full wedding I won’t want or need extra cake back in my room. So it would be a waste, even if it’s a lovely idea.

Why not have them available for during the boring photos bit to soak up those first glasses of booze everyone piles into? They would definitely be appreciate them or after the speeches.

That would apply to food at any function wouldn't it?

So many people are really funny about eating food prepared in domestic kitchens but don't give a second thought to some of the truly horrendous stuff that goes on in factories and takeaway/restaurant kitchens.

You have issues and have clearly never been in a commercial kitchen!

Some people are so paranoid these days, they'd rather eat some mass produced crap full of ultra processed junk like palm oil than a delicious artisan brownie. I think if you are one of these odd people with a complex about food having to all be 'packaged' you need to get help

I’m in the bin it camp.

I help out at my village fete cake stall and am always amazed at how fast the home made cakes go. Possibly because I see the absolute state of some of my elderly neighbours’ kitchens - and they’re the ones kindly baking the cakes.

Of course I'd eat it. Its a lovely little gesture. Anyone who is paranoid about food hygiene 🙄 can just bin it, can't they?

I’d love it!

Fucking hell people are batshit

I'll happily eat a homemade cake. Much nicer than sterile crap in a box from a supermarket full of additives and low quality ingredients!

Its your sisters wedding so its up to her really and she gets the final say.

Wouldn’t think twice about eating them. Yum 😋

Oh I wonder if we know the same woman. I used to look at the mothers at playgroup tucking into her baking and think "if they only knew."

Not sure what you mean by "that sort of wedding"

The pyjamas are for the bride/bridesmaid etc to wear whilst getting ready, most people probably won't see that.

Pre Covid, my team at work always had loads of treats. Shop bought and home made. One day a colleague bought in some left over bday cake. His wife had made one for his Son’s bday over the weekend and despite eating it all weekend long they had loads left over. She’d made things before and they always tasted lovely…

Literally as myself and another colleague were biting into the slices we’d cut, the colleague who had bought in the cake, started telling us the story of the bday weekend celebrations and how an hour before the party, the dog had been caught half on the counter top biting at the cake.

The thing is, he didn’t even take a breath as he then began to tell us about the saving of the cake and how the Nerf party was a success, Grandad stole the show joining in with the Nerfs, how the child had some lovely gifts etc. He obviously didn’t think it was odd at all to be sharing this dog ravaged cake.

We had no alternative than to swallow our bites, but the rest of our slices remained on the napkins until he stopped talking, turned his back and they could be binned.

Still to this day, I don’t understand how the cake was given to guests and offered to us!

Spell out why. What bad things might happen to you from eating a home-made cake? We're not talking about undercooked chicken or some other high-risk food here.

Jeez, people are weird these days. Not eating homemade cakes is weird. Home made cakes are so much nicer than shop bought

I'd much rather have something home made instead of something UPF.