T think that you just don't DO this?

[MumblingRagDoll]

Minor..it's minor...I know it is....but I have o know the general thoughts of others.

I baked a cake tonight as a dry run for DDs brthday party next week....turned it out...PERFECT chocolate sponge...told DH that I would decorate it in the morning....so cream would be frsh etc.

He just wandered in "Cakes nice"

He's taken a fucking CHUNK off the corner and desicrated its perfection...which I was going to decorate tomorrow.
I know it's minor...I have sliced it away..right across so the cake is nw straight edged again on all sides...but I KNOW it's not as it was.

I make cakes on a semi regular basis and they're cut and eaten as a family...would you take a chunk off someone's freshly baked cake? He also TURNED IT OVER after taking his corner.....revealing the risen side...when I had already turned it upon taking it out of the tin....I had to turn it over again to get the flat side on top!

I prbably would care but this is a practice cake!

A practice cake? It's never occurred to me to do a practice cake. This is where I've been going wrong all these years.

Just tell him that as you haven't had a chance to practice, he will have to make the real thing .

I am rubbish at baking, so I don't make practice ones, I just make lots of real ones and bin the ones that turn out wrong.

However ... completely with you about him turning it over, so the flat side was on the bottom ... does he know nothing about cakes?

Is it as abd as a husband removing the centre of a round fruit cake with a glass and claiming it was because it had sunk he was doing me a favour?

YANBU - I would go mad! You can't eat a cake until the chef declares it finished! Tell him he's uncouth with bad manners!!!!

I'd go fucking mental if someone so much as breathed on a cake I'd just made!!

YANBU

Babyicebean you can then turn your fruit cake into an artistic wreath cake with fondant icing ivy and holly leaves.

Obviously it only works if it's Christmas time.
If its a wedding cake, you're stuffed

I am pleased that some people think I am no BU! it's a matter of wanting the darn thing to look it's best before the family gorge on it....I just wanted it to be perfect.

Still...maybe its a good omen for the real thing....bad dress rehearsal equals good performance....

Well, but it was a good dress rehearsal- it is edible!
Personally I'd quite like that kind of omen hovering over my real cake i.e. people eating it.

I suppose it's better thank him politely allowing me to force a slice upon him!

YANBU... Follow him when he goes fishing, and everytime he catches one... chuck it back in.

as he's eaten the practice one, he doesn't get any of the real one (and make everyone one knows why).

make sure, that should have been

I'm with you on this one - YANB at all U! You told him you were going to decorate it tomorrow therefore it wasn't finished and not ready to be eaten.

YAsoooooooNBU!!!

DP did this to me a few months ago. He'd gone out drinking with mates and I'd happily pottered around the kitchen making sweets as a present for a friend. I carefully cut them up, put the prettiest ones on a plate with a sign saying "DO NOT EAT" and the slightly wonky ones on another plate saying "help yourselves" then went to bed.

You can guess what I found when I woke up the next morning... There were tears!

OP-I think tha YANBU on the grounds that he cake wasn´t finished & therefore wasn´t ready to eat.

Unless I leave a cake on the table then it is not to be eaten until I say so!

That's why my mother in law always had to bake about 5 christmas cakes in the run-up to christmas when my husband was still living at home. Once he left a note in the tin saying "thanks"

Maybe he thinks you are being a complete control freak ABU by making a practice one . I'm intrigued.. what happens to the practice cake - does your DS see it , and spoil the surprise, do you eat it secretly, does it go in the bin.....?

You need much better ideas of revenge on this one (dont touch his stinky fish, ewww). If he likes cake so much, maybe he would like some in bed with him. Or to wear as an extra pair of socks when he puts shoes on. Or maybe a nice cold cider with cake ice cubes. A lovely hot bubble bath with bubbles substituted for cake. Repeat the above til he has gone off cake to the point of exiting the house when the cake tins come out. Job done - cakes are safe forever after.

it would be hard to resisit, that why when ever i make cake, i do a few cup cakes in hope they will be eaten first

for revenge, i would do a fish recipe that your OH hates.

He drank your cider?

Leave the bastard!!

I know worra he's obviously a controlling and abusive person with a sense of entitlement.

betterwhenthesunshines I don't fully decorate the practice one...just the topping...in this case it will be fresh cream whipped with drinking chocolate and sugar...I have to make sure I know how much it takes...and how it survives the night in the fridge....I am very organised!