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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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.

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She needs to work much harder with her melons

What a horrible thing to do to a child! It's not remotely funny, it looks sloppy. She obviously believe that she is superior to everybody else, and seems awful.

Who in their right mind would want to willingly disappoint a kid on his birthday? Of course they can't have everything they want, but this is spiteful. You can buy a birthday cake for less than a tenner from any supermarket.

That is ridiculous! Not surprised you were annoyed and not surprised the kids were disappointed!

Those saying it would be Ok for adults, or whatever - it wouldn't. If you ask for a cake (and are offered a cake) then you expect cake. Not fruit, not a leg of lamb, not a bag of sunflower seeds.
However worthy any of those may be they are not an alternative to a cake and more than a bottle of Coke is an alternative to a bottle of shampoo.

I'd have wrapped it round her neck and said 'Oh look it can be a scarf as well - multi purpose or what ????'

Oh completely agree. Just meant I could see that quite a few adults would like it. Very few children wpuld ime

My egg allergic 2 year old would probably love that! He refused to eat his specially made birthday cake. But I'd be gutted if I was expecting cake and got watermelon instead

I think it's slightly less bad for an adult. It would still be incredibly stupid, but adults have less expectations about their birthday cakes -and know they can always buy one if someone does something that idiotic. No excuse for a child

That goes way past a level of idiocy I would be willing to tolerate. Is she lacking in intelligence or common sense? Because that is nothing short of downright cruel and nasty. How could anyone do that to a child. Fucking hell what an absolute bitch.

Honestly, as an adult I'd expect cake at a birthday party!

Hope your ds get his cake OP.

I'd be gutted & I'm in my 40s. Looks nice and all but it's a melon.

Oh wasn't digging at you Stealth I love watermelon and my DD is addicted and would have loved that. But not necessarily if she;d been expecting cake. Frankly my level of disappointment when no cake appears when I'm expecting cake is probably above the norm

If the cousin had said ' I'm thinking of doing a carved watermelon' at least Op could have said - fine, I'll buy a cake for the kids.

I hate watermelon. So I'd have been so disappointed by that.

I'm with the others. If you say cake you want cake! Proper spongey frosted sugary cake.

... this cake is a lie.

Seriously, this would be a shitty thing to do to an adult, too. I like watermelon.
But this is not enough watermelon to replace a cake. Watermelon does not have as many calories as cake. If you are going to replace cake with watermelon, at least provide an adequate amount of watermelon!

Is she on glue?

I'm an adult and I'm not going to lie, I'd be quite put out off if someone did this for my birthday.

She could have warned you, so you could have bought a cake, a bloody tray bake in Asda is only a fiver!

Are her children younger? Is she a health freak or judgey about what you feed your children?

I'd have to buy her dc a pack of apples for their next birthday if it were me

(Also your Dd's name is visible on the 'cake' although to be fair the cake is also pretty identifying you don't get many carved up melon cakes )

Ds's sorry my phone changed it

What is wrong with her???
That is not a cake. That is a watermelon.
It's a mean and even cruel thing to do to your son. And you.

My nephew adores watermelon and would probably live on the stuff if we let him but he'd be gutted if promised a birthday cake and that appeared instead.

It only works as a joke if you whip out a 'proper' cake 2 seconds later otherwise it's just mean for a child (but genius if you're a dieting adult).

I think its a pretty shitty thing to do.
Is she jealous of you or something, any reason she would try and embarrass you like this?

if I am ever invited to the birthday party of a transactivist, I will then tell them that the watermelon identifies as cake

Exactly pebble. I would love to present my (grown up) sister with this as a joke, then produce an awesome chocolate cake when she sulked!
Fruit is not a cake!

A few years ago I committed what was apparently a similarly unforgivable error over a birthday cake. Housemate at the time was spending her first birthday away from home and upset about it. Thinking I was doing a nice thing, I decided to make her a cake to surprise her. She was the fussiest eater I have ever heard of but I knew she loved strawberries and vanilla, so I went to the M and S foodcourt and got proper naice vanilla extract and fresh strawberries, made her a vanilla sponge and decorated with vanilla butter icing and the strawberries. It looked gorgeous.

Presented the cake to friend when she got home. Oh, she said, we'll have it after dinner. After dinner she said she was full and couldn't possibly eat anything. Never known her skip dessert before ever, but fine I thought. Same story the next day, except she cut me a huge slice and expected me to eat it without her. Next day I find the rest of the cake in the bin :( Had seen her eat both strawberries and vanilla sponge before, couldn't understand it.

Fast forward to my birthday. I am not a fussy eater and was intolerance free at the time (lol at now), but everyone who knew me did know that I'm not a fan of lemon flavoured sweet stuff. Lemon chicken, fine, lemon cake, mousse etc, no thanks.

So imagine my surprise when I'm presented with lemon drizzle and told oh, I know you don't like lemon cake, but birthday cake simply must be lemon drizzle.

She hadn't even tried my beautiful vanilla and strawberry birthday cake I made her because I wasn't aware of the golden rule that birthday cake must be lemon drizzle. Needless to say, I never made her a birthday cake again.

OP, shall we get them together?

And you know that this borders on child cruelty don't you? If I was your DS I would be on the phone to the NSPCC now

I'd have beaten her with it.

Idiot.