in a right royal huff about cake recategorisation

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cor. I haven't done AIBU for an age, but I am I know I am (bu) and need some get some get a grips and bridge rebuilding tips.

For the last 3 years I have donated a decorated Christmas cake to the school Christmas fair raffle.

Last night I get an e-mail asking for its weight as THE PTA POWERS THAT BE have decided to put it into a 'guess the weight of the cake' comp and not in the raffle.

I know, OUTRAGEOUS isn't it? Man they have a nerve.

So I sent a few hoity e-mails.

Then I went to bed and had a lemsip and now have realised I am a giant precious-cake arse.

baldy I took some of the rage out earlier on a deer template.

Come on come on people I',m seeing the PTA massive in 45 mins. raffle or weight, and apologise or remain snooty?

4 baldy.

Didn't get grief like this from the Church last saturday no siree. Got a warm embrace from the verger.

hollow out the middle and fill it with lead shot-if its going to have its own competition why not beef it up a bit?

god knows how heavy it will be with icing.

Not sure if our school are even doing a xmas fate this year not enough parents have come forward to help, so i may have an extra xmas cake.

So insist on a glittery podium in the centre of the entire event with a fanfare every time someone enters.

Your cake deserves a proper event of it's own!

lol @ snice. Like the idea of suprise weighty innards.

XmasFairy, you can never have too many christmas cakes.

today I have a BAD cold.
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i'm still in the process of decoration btw

And you're worried about urchins' hands?

we have already eaten 5

So far I have made 14 and i have fruit soaking for 2 more cakes.

Can I offer the PTA's possible perspective?
PTA annual events can get very same-y. They need re-jigging every now and then. You said that this was the fourth time you have made the cake. Perhaps they just needed the excitement of some change at the Fair.

be huffy and then complete a volte-face and capitulate on yr 4 table BUT write FUCK YOU PTA invisibly in the icing before you complete the decoration

bwa ha haha hah

Maybe they're getting a gigantic wedding-style cake donated by somebody else for the raffle this year, and that's why yours is being sidelined?

I'll take yours off your hands. Our raffle prizes this year seem to be principally in the form of vouchers and tickets which are very nice but make a lousy display. Could do with a bit of carb-related bling up there.

Say you'll only accept guess the weight if your stand gets prime position, and raffle is relegated to a hallway or back room. Also insist on a 'No Urchins' sign.

HOLY COW 16 cakes. That possibly is too many Christmas cakes.

Grimma I can assure you that everything is under the strictest of quality control with multiple handwashings. There are no germs on my cake.

LOLOL @ Fuck You PTA.

If there is another cake at this shindig there'll be fireworks. Pissy little e-mails will be the least of their problems.

oooh do you think I could negotiate on position? Maybe dead centre of the hall with NOTHING else in there. Mood lighting. Maybe a harp?

only a harp if there are angels too

a harp without angels would just be lame

Harp may be pushing it, but perhaps it's own attendants, dressed to your specification to show the cake in it's best light?

oh yes, special attendants

if you know the weigh of the ingredients, then you known the weight of the cake.

roughly, as obviosuly it loses moisture durin baking...

allow about 40g for each egg (they weigh about 5o but the shell is abot 10g, with those runy bits you never getout without a faff.)
our nursery fair has been cancelled due to snow, so we are eating the cake i was going to donate to the cake sale.

Dh had planned to buy it back anyway, and upon eating we discovered it wasn't quite good enough to 'reprazent' my cake making skill.

the fair is re-scheduled for next week - do you think it ok to put in week-old iced fruit cake?

not ones dressed as Waitrose cake ladies with white overalls and horrid pork pie hats, though

I was thinking more like glamorous assistants, BALD. Ya know, evening dresses, jewels, that sort of thing.

You've got all the power here - you have the cake, if they want it they'll have to listen to your demands. (You might want to phrase it more tactfully though)

yes yes

I like the attendants idea. Like the blokes from the Royal Family when they stood soberly round the Queen Mum's coffin when she was lying in state.

harp and angels makes it look like cake has died and gone to heaven, which would be off putting.

lolo Tee

mmm

lying in state vision also a tad on the death-y side.

evening dresses probably better.

Edgar, oh yes. Fruit cake lasts for ages doesn't it.

OK I will weigh it but only for interest sake.