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to donate rubbish cakes to the school fair?

35 replies

Nagoo · 12/03/2012 18:37

I've made some cakes, but they are a bit shit.

It doesn't matter what they taste like, does it?

Should I nip out and get some Mr Kipling?

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jinsei · 12/03/2012 18:51

No, your home-made ones will be fine. :)

crowface · 12/03/2012 18:53

How shit are we talking?

I think the following questions can aid you decision:

Are they 'food poisoning bad' or just 'pull a face like you've been poisoned' bad?

How much do you like your child? Do you want to get out of all future patisserie based fund raising? Is it anonymous donations?

Can they be salvaged with plenty of icing/chocolate?

yousankmybattleship · 12/03/2012 18:53

It does matter what they taste like. Some poor child is going to eat them. Mine spend their own pocket money and would be really disappointed if they were rubbish. Better to take nothing I would think.

SparkyMcSparrow · 12/03/2012 18:53

Slather on the icing and chocolate and they will be fine!

DeliaSucksmore · 12/03/2012 18:54

I think even shit homemade cakes are better than bought. What's shit about them? Can you decorate them?

fortifiedwithtea · 12/03/2012 19:05

Shame on you. Go buy some Mr Kiplings. My Mum bought a cake from the school fair in the 1970's. Beautifully iced but made with an off egg. Never again.

When you say shit, do you mean not done in the middle, then no way. Or if just flat ,cover with icing and pretend DC made them.

halcyondays · 12/03/2012 19:08

What exactly is wrong with them?

Debeez · 12/03/2012 19:10

Fuck it we're not all Nigella. I'm sure your effort will be appreciated greatly. Surely it's about all joining in and raising some money, you're probably being to harsh on yourself. As long as they've not been dropped on the floor / licked by a dog it'll be fine.

SparkyMcSparrow · 12/03/2012 19:30

Or go and buy a 'homemade' cake from a bakery and pass it off as your own!

This is what I shall be doing when my time comes Shock Grin

PurplePidjin · 12/03/2012 19:46

Shit as in taste of baking powder, or shit as in haven't risen?

Have you got time to knock out some flapjacks?

CHT · 12/03/2012 19:48

Litmus test: would you give it to your own kids to eat? If so, send it along. If it would otherwise go in the bin, Mr Kipling it is!

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Nagoo · 12/03/2012 19:50

They are not poisonous! Grin bit flat -the last ones were a bit eggy, so I tweaked it a bit. Ill advised tweaking.

But they are rainbow (there is a picture of one on my profile, but that one was sick. That will explain if you look).

I thought that it would be ok if people bought them, I mean, they don't have to eat them, do they? They look exciting, just taste a bit meh.

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Nagoo · 12/03/2012 19:51

I would give them to my own DCs, but hide them from MIL.

On the plus side, he goes to breakfast club tomorrow, so I don't have to face anyone with the tray Grin

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AuntLucyInPeru · 12/03/2012 19:53

Pretty much every homemade cake I've bought from a PTA sale has been shit. So if past precedent is anything to go by,YANBU.

SparkyMcSparrow · 12/03/2012 19:53

They look great! Especially the sick one Grin

I'm slightly more interested in your last picture! Is that cat poo Shock

SparkyMcSparrow · 12/03/2012 19:54

...and how did you make rainbow cakes? I want some!

ramblinrose · 12/03/2012 19:54

If they are edible but just look a bit crap I would send them in.

Just don't get upset if they are the last ones left.

AuntLucyInPeru · 12/03/2012 19:55

Ahem. Obviously I'm sure yours actually taste fiiiiiinnnnnneeee... Grin

DeliaSucksmore · 12/03/2012 19:55

Grin Nagoo, rainbow volcano cakes, juxtaposed with a photo of what looked like a poo! If they're for a school fair, the kids will love 'em! Maybe you could add some colourful icing and smarties to decorate?

Tiddlyompompom · 12/03/2012 20:00

As long as they're iced no child I know would turn away your rainbow cake! Exiting to look at, has sugary coating, they reeeeally won't care if they're a bit tasteless. :)

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Nagoo · 12/03/2012 20:03
Thanks

I will go and slap some icing on. I'm going to have to go and get some smarties, aren't I? I was reluctant to hide their rainbowy ness. That was their only selling point....

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ButterPopcorn · 12/03/2012 20:04

Ah I love the rainbow cakes!!

This reminds me of a short story I read when I was a kid, about a girl who's mum's cake for the school fair goes wrong and so she ices a cardboard box, which looks lovely, and promises to buy it straight back before anyone knows. But she's delayed getting to the stall and someone else buys it. Meanwhile, the girl is invited for tea at a posh show-offy friend's house, and her posh show-offy mum places the iced cardboard on the middle of the table and exclaims "who wants a slice, I made it all myself!" and that's where it ends!

Anyone else know that story? I thought it was hilarious and used to really squirm imagining being the girl knowing the cake was going to be cardboard underneath!

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Nagoo · 12/03/2012 20:04

sparky that is indeed a cat poo. I don't know how he did it. He is not particularly tall nor spritely.

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PurplePidjin · 12/03/2012 20:19

The one on your profile needs eyes and a nose Grin

Taste ok but look a bit odd = smother them in icing and sell them for 10p!!

MonsterBookOfTysons · 12/03/2012 20:19

Goo the cakes are brilliant! They are going to a school fair not to be tested on Masterchef Wink
Rolf at the cat shit photo Grin

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