to think it's impossible to get to mid-40s and not know how to make cakes??

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Husband being a numpty! Kids making fairy cakes, we make them all the time. I usually supervise baking and make cakes, husband is an enthusiastic eater of said cakes.

Numpty husband told the kids not to put paper cases into the bun tin before filling with batter as they would "definitely burn". Result = cakes stuck to tin, pissed off kids, me running to shop for more butter. How can you get to your mid 40s, live with someone who bakes for 20 years and NOT KNOW HOW CAKE CASES WORK???

DH is 48 and his idea of cake making is buying one from Tesco

Perfectly easy to make it to 100 and not have a scooby how to make cakes.

But to not realise that the the raw mixture goes into the cases and then the oven.......well...............did you marry him for his body rather than his brains?

Tbh I'm 42 and I couldn't & more importantly wouldn't want to make a cake but I'd know that making buns requires bun cases.

YABU

Get him some silicon cake cases for next time.

He thought you cooked them in the tin and put them in cases afterwards? Did he never wonder how the cake is always moulded to the shape of the paper case?

This is an intelligent man who holds down a responsible job - and who doesn't know you put cake cases in tins before cooking cakes. I honestly think he walks around with his eyes closed half the time. My 10 year old was trying to tell him he was wrong but he was having none of it - have told him to defer to her obviously superior knowledge next time!

The actual baking bit I get. It's not everyone's bag and shop bought cakes are often very good. But the paper case thing has got me boggled!!

I have no idea and I'm 39.

Baking is a completely pointless activity!

I'm a reasonably good cook in day to day life and make most of our meals, but I can't remember the last time I made a cake. I'd have no clue.

Baking is completely pointless? Brilliant response

How can baking be pointless when the end result is cake??

Standing on one leg for an hour is pointless. A loaf of bread is a point.

I'm approaching 38 and I don't have a clue.

I'm a culinary disaster generally though. Thank Godot for M&S ready meals.

Standing on one leg for an hour is pointless.

Nah, that's Yoga.

I wish I thought baking was pointless, I wouldn't need to exercise quite so much.

Very Beckettian!

How can baking be pointless when the end result is cake??

I don't like cake. I like crisps.

Even if you do like cake, surely that's what bakeries and cake shops are for, innit?

Here, have some

My DH once surprised me by announcing he was making me a birthday cake. All by himself.

He presented it a few hours later and I was a little shell shocked. I knew he had all the right stuff because i had snooped earlier ( all Betty Crocker ) .... He had only gone and put the fudge icing on....PRE BAKE

" I thought it was hard work spreading it on batter"

I think I'm ok for now then... I have about 20 years to learn

I don't eat cake

I don't bake cakes

I couldn't tell you a single recipe off the top of my head.

But even I know the mixture goes in cases

He had only gone and put the fudge icing on....PRE BAKE

I think that beats not knowing how to use cake cases!! How was the cake?

He baked the icing?!

Spreading icing on wet cake batter is quite the achievement!

I've never baked a cake in my life... but even I know cake mix goes in cases in the oven and icing goes on after baking!

Is you DH drunk?????

i'm at baking the icing!!! brilliant!

I tried some out of politeness and it wasn't bad - kind of like a fudge brownie. His " defence" was that it wasn't like normal icing - so how was he too know

I promise he's not usually this incompetent

so why did you have to go to the shops for more butter when he'd fucked it up?