to secretly judge a mum who doesn't work but bought her son's 1st birthday cake at Waitrose?

[howdidthishappenthen]

Note that she's a REALLY one-up-manship yummy mummy who doesn't work because 'money is the man's responsibility - I'm the homemaker'. Then I hear her DH praising her for 'buying' a great cake for DS's 1st birthday. OK, I accept not everyone can cook. And after a few years, of with a few DCs of course we're all going to revert to shop cakes. And Waitrose cakes taste nice and lots of my own efforts are a bit dodgy. But no job, and the 1st birthday? C'mon... make an effort!

Of course yanbu, in fact I think you ought to phone social services!
I usually buy a tesco traybake cake btw...

Tesco traybake are the dog's bollix. They slice up better as well.

Bonsoir, I think we'll find that judgey cake makers produce children who spend so much time wielding the icing bag themselves, they leave school with shite qualifications and er, have to make cakes for other people for a living....

Ah!!! It's a serpent eating its own tail....

I am sleep deprived, I keep bursting into tears because the TV just reminded me that Mothers Day is coming up and I miss my DD so much its making my headache.

But this thread is making me laugh. Its very funny.

Ta.

YANBU. People who can't/won't cook, or bake, or sew on a button or darn a sock or put on a plug or mend a hem or change a fuse are a bit lame, irrespective of gender.

For the person who is about to do her daughters cupcake tower I have one word of advice.

"Don't".

I did one for my Grandmothers 90th (had intended to do 90 cupcakes. Gave up after 48). I never ever ever ever want to see/ eat / touch another cupcake ever again.

I got lots of compliments though...... and if you really are going to do it buy disposable piping bags from Lakeland.

Sorry, 'lame' as an insult is really off, don't know why I put that. I mean drippy.

This thread is the reason why I stick around MN.

never fails to cheer me up when I am feeling low.

Good work OP.

I cook everything with love; and no you can't buy it. It's priceless.........
It's also totally inedible.

DC1 texts DH every time I cook. Shouting Capitals. "COME HOME QUICK SHE'S IN THE KITCHEN. SAVE US NOW!!!!!!!

If the maker/creator had meant me to make cakes; i'd have a detacheable whisk attachment that would allow me to sit on a bowl and whisk whilst I multitask.

I've gone one worse than my previous sahm with a dh who buys the cakes from tesco

Just got off the phone to dmil who was asking for numbers for buying poncy cupcakes for ds1s birthday and ds3s christening joint gathering
They aren't even getting seperate cakes. I'm a bad bad mother

Thank you for the advice lurker - I only need to do about 30. We had a practice run already so I'm well into aversion to buttercream mode already. And disposable piping bags are a must, I agree!

I cook most things with hate, accompanied by a side order of bile. This is especially true of cakes, which are frosted in disappointment and decorated with recriminations.

I made a cake for my sons joint party last year. It made small children cry with its sheer ugliness and family members made me swear I would never again create such a monstrosity for the sake of all mankind.

Winter your cakes must be lovely and bitte

gah bitte bitter

sour as the lemons of Hades, bronze.

op

This is one of my favourite mumsnet ops ever. You have ticked almost all the mumsnet boxes for what constitutes a really good bunfight. Tell me, does your friend intend privately educate her children? At boarding school?

Now you've gone and done it, norman... and lets promote it to a full size cakefight shall we? bunfight sounds too little, somehow.....

Lololol at the birthday omlette

Can this go in classics?

Oh please OP come back, I want to hear your thoughts, are you still sticking by your OP???

Right, my daughter is going to be one on the day of the Royal Wedding. I was going to make her a cake but now I will buy one from ASDA and yah boo sucks to you all.

Thank you VERY much. I just went to Sainsburys to get a Birthday cake for DS2 and giggled the whole time I was choosing (crunchie,smarties, chocolate traybake incase you are interested).

I am sure that 'green alert in cakes and pastries' over the tannoy was about me.

Well what about me, i dont work but i have just bought a shit load (yes shit load is an acceptable measurement) of smarties for a cake i am making DS2 (2) for his 3rd birthday on sunday, iv still yet buy a cake board and also the ingrediants but i will be buying it all with my DHs wages

I judge people who DO bake cakes for one year olds.

I have no idea if this answer helps you.

all I can say to this OP is LOL

'Ithaka - my local (very posh) shop sells cakes that have 'made with love' on the ingredients list, so you can buy it. Albeit at four times the price of a cake made with indifference.'

I wonder if 'bought love' tastes as sweet as as the real thing It's the cake equivalent of prostitution

stealthsquiggle - hmmm. We will see. merkat climbing wall cakes are not easy to come by in shops I have discovered So looks like Ineed to fashion some form of boulder/rock cake and have meerkats climbing up it on ropes (thinking strawberry laces for ropes), with foot/hand holds (smarties perhaps?)