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To think if you're going to make a cake for my son's birthday, you don't make one like this!?

206 replies

user1491737694 · 09/04/2017 12:39

I'm guessing it's supposed to be some kind of funny joke but I had a lot of bloody miserable kids who got no cake, especially a very upset 7 year old. All the other parents found it funny (or were just being polite) it was a disaster.

To think if you're going to make a cake for my son's birthday, you don't make one like this!?
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UppityHumpty · 09/04/2017 13:13

I like it as a display & for candles etc, but she should have made a second proper cake too (even if undecorated) to dish out to the kids.

TheWitTank · 09/04/2017 13:14

I think it would be nice alongside a real cake -but not as the main event. What an odd decision!

Goodasgoldilox · 09/04/2017 13:15

I get the debate about whether jaffa-cakes are cakes or biscuits ... but don't think that the debate about whether a water-melon is a cake is going to get far.

Nice decoration - where is the promised cake?

witsender · 09/04/2017 13:18

Pmsl...Are her kids younger by any chance? To be fair my younger one loves watermelon so wouldn't think anything of it, I on the other hand, eat cake at any given opportunity looks down at belly so would be most perturbed.

DramaInPyjamas · 09/04/2017 13:23

Someone has been spending far too much spare time on Instagram and Pinterest I think

OlennasWimple · 09/04/2017 13:24

This is a really odd thing to do Confused

HashiAsLarry · 09/04/2017 13:26

My DS loves watermelon. He'd still want a cake though.

IloveBanff · 09/04/2017 13:29

It just seems really unkind and isn't something I would just accept from the cousin. I would want to know why she was being so unkind to a 7 yr old boy and his friends at his birthday party. It's not normal.

JoandMax · 09/04/2017 13:30

Your poor DS! Kids love birthday cake and much as we want them to love healthy food at a party that's just mean!!

It reminds me of my sister in law who said she'd make a birthday cake for my then turning 2 year old. Said it would be chocolate with smarties and turned up with this hideous whole meal, no sugar, no taste, dry as cardboard pancake. Fortunately DS was too young to really know what was going on but even the dog wouldn't eat it........ This started off years of her making snidey comments about my parenting and what my kids eat!

Nousernameforme · 09/04/2017 13:31

They are quite popular in Australia from what i can gather from my old bosses pinterest they cover them in some sort of white frosting I suppose it beats baking in the awful heat. I don't think it would go over well in the uk though whereabouts are you op?

Greystars · 09/04/2017 13:31

I'm with the others who are saying it's a very unkind thing to do, to anybody - let alone a seven year old!

Mummyoflittledragon · 09/04/2017 13:32

That would have been great for the adults. And another real cake for the children. What was she thinking?!

Katedotness1963 · 09/04/2017 13:32

I'd send her out to buy a real cake, what the hell was she thinking?!

RitaMills · 09/04/2017 13:34

I'd have sent someone to the nearest supermarket for a cake, funny joke for an adult constantly on a diet, not funny for a 7 year old.

RebootYourEngine · 09/04/2017 13:41

Im an adult who likes to eat healthy food but there is no way i would appreciate that as a cake. Cake to me consists of choclate, chocolate and chocolate.

weddingopinionsplease · 09/04/2017 13:41

Yeah that's weird. Really weird.

Greystars · 09/04/2017 13:42

It would not be ok for adults not this one anyway

Ok if accompanied by a real cake too, but not just on its own :) I only ever eat cake on birthdays and the like, it's a bit like giving someone a chicken egg at Easter

Not cool Angry

Bluntness100 · 09/04/2017 13:45

I'd have to agree, that's not ok for a kids birthday party, at the very least she should have asked your opinion before doing it.

And to be honest it looks a mess and looks quickly and sloppily done. I suspect she forgot to make the cake or couldn't be arsed so did this instead.

Gingernaut · 09/04/2017 13:45

Can you pop out to a large supermarket and see what they have in?

MetallicBeige · 09/04/2017 13:46

That would be a fun table centre for a party, - to go next to the big massive sugarfest of a cake.

user1471558436 · 09/04/2017 13:48

I like it. She should have prewarned you though - so that it could be suplimented with a few boxes of chocolate fingers or fairy cakes

YouTheCat · 09/04/2017 13:50

That is shit. Looks like a child has cut it up.

It takes minutes to bung a cake in the oven.

user1471558436 · 09/04/2017 13:50

OP - what have you got for party food? Buffet wise?

Is your cousin particularly healthy?

DistanceCall · 09/04/2017 13:51

Intolerable. Disappointing a whole bunch of little kids who wanted real cake.

If that's a friend, for me it would be grounds for ending the friendship. Stupid cow.

babybrainismyexcuseforlife · 09/04/2017 13:58

Can you get anyone to nip to Tesco/ Asda place like that and grab a cake for him?? That is really crappy of her, you would think if she's so close with your kids she would know better Hmm

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