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!

given i dont watch my own dc why hell would i bake their birthday cakes

thats what you pay other folk for,to do these wee jobs

Snort at love making something taste better. All that love does is make the person say it tastes better.

You give cake to a 1 year old? FREAK! I made breast milk cheese cake for all mine.

YABVUandAT

A climbing wall cake with meercats on it?

Easy peasy.

Buy a cake from waitrose. Stand it on end. Stick some lego in at intervals.

Get cat (never does nothing but sleep all day anyway).

Superglue it (cat) to cake. Use felt tips to make it meercat type colour (this could take some time if it's black; use brown paper bags and also superglue these... to cat in this instance)

Child will moan about scale... blah blah blah blah. Tell child that it's a DINOSAUR meer cat; and everything was 20 times bigger.

Et Voila !!!

I'm a fucking domestic goddess me.

I used to get so fed up with the SAHM Mums who were so competitive about birthday cake making, when I was SAHM many moons ago. In fact, I got so upset and anxious that DH begged me to start buying them!

Also, the fact that my cakes are like doorstoppers probably had something to do with it - :)

Not everyone can cook or do the fancy icing stuff - well, I can't anyway.

I have just bought my 13 year old on friday's cake from waitrose.

It was a christening cake with rocking horses on it. I took off the rocking bits and lo and behold it is a horsey cake suitable for pony mad teenager

I'm a fucking domestic goddess me.

HAHA v funny.lovin image splat cat cake

It's NOT a splat cat cake, it's dinosaur meer cats on a climbing wall cake.

One has to visualise and believe

FFS the one year old isn't going to care and it's not like she was handing out special hash brownies

Jemima PMSL - are you Martha Stewart?

Well my dcs cakes come from BOOTHS (arguably posher than WAITROSE) and I use my CARERS ALLOWANCE to buy them.

So nuh, nuh and NUH again !

Booths is not posher than waitrose. Just more expensive.

It is so, AND the breads nicer

A bit like juicy couture and gap.

Juicy may be more expensive but it's not posh.

i saw lassie wi juicy across her tracksuit arse.thon image haunts me.quite horrific

Juicy couture brand is rough as dogs head.

My cakes come from bettys.

Poppycock. BOOTHS is far nicer and posher than WAITROSE

And it's more exclusive, their aren't many BOOTHS. WAITROSE is common

And the breads always stale, the meat is also 'iffy'

Booths have a salad bar. Enough said.

Chokes on DS's waitrose birthday cake, wipes crumbs off keyboard and continues chuckling at the OP.
Cake anyone?

Booths is the 'Waitrose of the north' and therefore not as posh IMO

Poppycock, and BOOTHS does not have a salad bar

And yes, but only nice areas, like windermere. The meat is so fresh it practically moos

WAITROSE smells musty

Ahhh - I'm going to miss Booths when I move....

I did exactly this now I know all those mothers out there secretly judging me, I am mortified.

spend conspicuous amount on cake,all will be envious. not like cheapskate greasy mammie cakes.how underclass to make a cake.

what next?watch your own children