AIBU to not pay for the slice of cake?

[bananafish]

This isn't a big deal, really, but I'm somewhat bemused, so here goes.

So, we had a bake sale at work to raise money for a local charity before Christmas.

I baked a carrot cake with cream cheese frosting. New recipe, newish oven. It looked good when I put it out, but I was a wee bit nervous it might taste horrible, so I cut a small slice to test it.

The woman who organised the bake sale smiled at me and said: "That will be £1.50, please."

I smiled back and said nothing, as I assumed she was joking. She wasn't; she asked for the money again.

I said that I was just making sure it was OK and I didn't think I needed to pay for the slice of cake? She tutted that it was "bad form", and walked away with her nose in the air.

I appreciate we were raising funds but that's a bit weird, isn't it? Or should I have coughed up?

You tried it once it was all laid out on the table? Once it's gone out for sale, it's a bit late to 'check its okay', no ones looking for the next great British baker!
I wouldn't have had the cheek to take a piece of cake without paying.
I bake cakes for dds schools. Once they've gone to school, they're not ours anymore. The kids want to try a cake, we buy them back again. I wouldn't dream of asking to take them because I've made them

So I think ywbu.

Bake sale = cake sale. Frosting = icing .

Clancy

Bake sale = cake sale. Frosting = icing

Thanks for that, would never have understood otherwise.

I suffer from baking paranoia, I get where you're coming from!

Actually I don't think I've ever donated a whole cake, I tend to do individual cakes and slices so you've got me wondering.

I think cutting a sliver out is fine, but I'd feel cheeky cutting something that resembled a slice. I'd be really upfront about the new oven/ new recipe thing and tell them that was what I was doing, even if they tried to dissuade me. This would happen behind the scenes before the cake reached the stall.

Either way I wouldn't expect to be told off for it ('bad form'? ) when I'd gone to the trouble of baking a cake. If I was the organiser I'd be grateful people had donated.

That 'fuck off' cake looks bloody gorgeous.

I fancy a slice

It's a shame you didn't have this as a stand by....

Me too Only, it made me laugh!

I don't think I'd be brazen enough (!) to help myself to a slice once it had been placed on the stall. At that point I think you have to accept it's going to taste fine and step away!!

Haha the woman is a loon.

I can see where you were coming from OP - I would have paid but I'd have been sticking pins in voodoo dolls at the the woman who organised it and I would not have taken part in a bake sale she organised again.

I'm surprised people think £1.50 is excessive for a slice of good homemade cake - I doubt you can get a slice of cake in Costa for £1.50 and this is for charity! That is why I don't bake for bake sales anymore - I can't deal with them selling my cakes for a pittance. I'll donate money but not my precious cakes.

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I never see her around anymore - has she left or changed her name?

And "bad form"? - does the woman live in a chapter of Mallory Towers or something?

I think you should have tried it at home.

I can't see this as steeling but to cut and eat it on the stand and not to pay seems strange. If it were left over and you took your own cake home that would be different. Of course you made and donated it, and I expect it cost a lot more than £1.50 to make but I guess it is in the spirit of fund-raising that once you actually donate it, it is no longer yours.

I hate this kind of thing.

Charities who think they have no need to be grateful or even civil to the people who donate to them, in fact that they have to be squeezed til the pips squeak. Same attitude is behind chugging, and sending people hundreds of letters a year harassing them for money.

It's so short sighted. Make £1.50 but put the person off baking a cake for you again, so lose £12 or whatever at the next one. Jeez.

I'm laughing like a 12 year old at the Fuck Off cake.

YANBU. Perfectly fine to taste it yourself.

When we take baking in to work to raise money, we always pay for a slice/piece.

Ffs only on Mumsnet would eating a sliver of your own cake be considered 'stealing'.

It's totally weird to hand over the cake and later on, when it's on the stall decide you want to test it to make sure it isn't poisonous tastes ok.
Bake a square one next time

The thing is right did she know youd actually brought it in? she may actually just have thought your were helping yourself to someone elses cake lol, pretty funny though!

OSETmum lol

Would having a slice taken out of it stop someone buying the whole cake?

The legal question is whether once you have given it - made a gift - it stops being your property? That is normally the case with goods once you make a gift. There is some special case law on engagement rings and gifts if the engagement if broken off but normally a gift is irrevocable and you cannot change your mind later and once the gift is made the ownership passes away from you so yes technically not your cake to test any more.

Your payment was all the fucking work you went to in making the bloody thing in the first place. Not to mention the ingredients. Funny how you could have eaten half the damn cake at home and brought in 6 slices and that would have been a wonderful charitable donation, but eating some once it's "on the stall" is stealing, ffs. Jobsworth to the extreme. Fuck that noise. I'd not make them another cake.