To be annoyed with my DH?

[MinionMaker]

Hi everyone,

Long time reader, first time poster, but I'm fuming right now and could use a second (and third, fourth etc!) opinion.

It's my niece's birthday in a few days and so I decided to make her some cakes to help out my sister. Her favourite cartoon right now is Minions, she's mad about it. Minions bedding, curtains, wallpaper, you name it!

I found a recipe and made the cakes. Now, I appreciate they aren't quite up to Nigella standards, but I thought they turned out pretty good! I showed my husband and he could barely contain his smirk. I tried to make them look a bit better by cutting the bottom half off (basically the blue bit) which I think helped, but he wouldn't stop laughing. I could have slapped him!

I didn't talk to him for the rest of the day because it took me a lot of effort to do this and I don't see him doing anything to help. I guess I could have forgiven him, but I walked in to his office last night to find that he had posted pictures of my cakes on to some website, and there were now a bunch of people laughing at my work.

Literally seething now and haven't spoken to him since!

So AIBU? I really wanted to give my niece a nice surprise with the cakes but I don't even know if I want to any more.

I think some people are being a little bit mean. Ok, they are not perfect but I could tell what they were supposed to be and if my sister went to the effort of making them for my child I would be impressed she put the effort in and didn't just buy something!
I would also be really pissed off with my OH if he behaved like that!

Seething? I think you need to lighten up a bit. life is short to be seething about some cakes posted on a website.

I think they are super cool

I'm so sorry but I can't not laugh at those cakes.
Well done for trying.
So so sorry.

Oh come on, those cake fail websites are hilarious and sorry but those cakes just HAVE to go on there! They're possibly the worst cakes I've ever seen, surely you can see that they're an epic fail? I think you need to take it on the chin and laugh about it as will any other person in the whole world who sees them

I think some people are being really harsh.

Ok, so they're not the most artistic cakes in the world, but it was a thoughtful idea and the OP put a lot of effort into making them.

It's one thing to laugh at your own efforts and put them on a website (or send the photo into Bake Off Extra Slice). It's completely different - and quite humiliating - for someone else to do it to you.

I'd be fuming if my DP did that to me. YNBU: you are quite right to be pissed off and I think your husband's got a lot of making up to do.

They look like zombie minions! Quite scary and...well, crap, but if they taste good...

Something similar happened to me years ago (before social media) and my XH mocked my cake. I decided that if I took it to the occasion it was intended for, he would just continue the joke at my expense so in a huff I binned it.

He was quite upset and then cross about it because it prevented him poking fun at me later on - but I felt a bit smug at having put the brakes on his mocking. I know it was a waste, but I also know he would have been really scathing about them if I hadn't.

Later on he would say "what a shame, they weren't that bad, you shouldn't have thrown them out, I was only joking" - yeah right.

Not saying you should act in such a petulant way though.

They are terrible but the only important question is whether your niece likes them. Remember, children can be very poor judges of cake quality - you might get away with it.

They'll be fine but I think you are being a bit oversensitive. If I'd baked those DH and I would have laughed at them together.

I LOVE cake wrecks but they only take submissions where the baker is a pro.
It's not to laugh at people who are just trying to do a nice thing.

Your niece will love them. You're not Mary Berry. You're a very sweet aunt who wants to make her niece happy.

I think they're fab. Your DN is very lucky to have such a loving aunt - much nicer than a shop-bought cake.

Your DH is an insensitive arse IMO.

However..... I'm not sure how nice they'll still be in a few days

is this genuine? It's just I have seen the post on the footie site. Some of the GIFs and Memes they have built are pretty funny.

If it is genuine then good try - maybe do something less ambitious and work on the detail next time?

Well, I thought on my 1st view that they looked just fine.

*Love. In the nicest possible way they are a bit rustic.

Best reply ever.

Is this a wind up?

Like the contaminated cakes thread?!

I'd have laughed as well. They're frickin hilarious!

They aren't professional quality but they are fine. Not sure why so many posters on here are being so scathing. They are amateur made minion cakes, what?

Oh, oh my God. They are hilarious!

Is that ketchup? Or a slaughtered minion? My screen is not too clear.............

Slaughtered minions are the stuff of dreams. Kill all the little fuckers.

They are funny op, sorry. Don't be too harsh on him though.

I think you have done well, I am one whose cakes taste nice but well decorating is mmm bloody hard not my strong point, however the kids have always appreciated my efforts and known what I was aiming for.

Your DH was def unreasonable to tease you and posting online was just mean.

Have you investigated the wonderful world of cake decorations (I have seen edible eyes) as getting a little bit just right can help perk up an otherwise so so attempt - I was delighted this year that I found chocolate sea creatures in a local sweet shop that were added to DDs pirate treasure chest cake and helped make it look more like what I was aiming at.