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.

She deserves to be karate chopped in the windpipe

DD had triangles of watermelon decorated with fruits at her 8th birthday party, but that was as well as cake (watermelon ate at the party, cake in party bags) doing it instead of cake is just mean!

What a rude, judgemental, uninformed, lying, mean and incorrect bitchbag. I'm bloody cross on your child's behalf.

please update us to let us know he did finally have some cake later in the day...I find this genuinely harrowing

FFS, if she was worried about his ADHD she could have asked you how you wanted her to handle the cake and did she need to make something less refined sugar and artificial ingredients.

This seems like a passive aggressive swipe at your parenting. Major fail on her part.

If she's trying the whole 'birthday parties don't have to be all about sugar' as an earlier poster suggested, she should serve the damned thing at her own party, and water to go with it.

Take her cake, blend its flesh with a little lime juice, quite a bit of lemonade, and some vodka and drink the results. Don't give her any of it.

Id have cried.

At least you know what to get her for birthdays and Christmas ad infinitum.
Fruit basket
Fruit of the month club
Edible arrangement (without the chocolate option though)
Vegetable tray - to jazz things up a bit.

Calendar featuring pictures of fruit, preferably ones that look like penises.

I made a melon 'cake' for DD once, nobody threw a strop about a lack of real cake, in fact the kids were like a plague of locusts when it was brought out and chopped up, I've never seen anything like it I did it because DD didn't like cake at the time, so i thought it better to make her 'cake' something she would actually want to eat. Here's a picture

However, those circumstances were completely different, I can see how your son would be really disappointed if he was expecting an actual cake and her passive aggressive comments are awful It's also done really badly, she has just hacked up a couple of melons and made no effort at all!

That is in a completely different league, Whispers, it's fab! And nobody lied and told you it was going to be real cake...

Whispers that is amazing! I totally love it. OP yours is nice too. I was quite surprised to see so many negative views... but I guess if the kids weren't fruit fans and instead were expecting sugar, cream, butter, chocolate, sweet decorations, artificial colours... I kind of see why they might be disappointed

Is it a new trend, DC's on Gluten free diets as they're sat on computers all day, so watermelon for a cake

I hope there's some reason, like the cake she baked was trashed.

How odd, but innovative.

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'm Australian. There would be a riot if someone tried to pass that off as cake. Cake and fairy bread are mandatory at parties.

This was deliberately spiteful. It was obviously premidated by the way she offers to provide the "cake".

If someone did this to my child, we'd be having very strong words and she'd be left in doubt as to what a horrible person she is, and what a nasty things she did.

OP you can't be in the UK, I guess? No watermelons around my way at this time of year.

Oh, an ignorant arse who thinks that ADHD is caused by sugar, instead of being a medical condition first identified back in the 1700s. Yep, PA watermelon cake it was.

What a colossal bitch.

I hope your DS gets a make up cake soon

Bloodybridget somehow I don't think the UK grows watermelons they are pretty well a year round fruit. Plenty of places to get watermelon when you want them.

Really Doorway? I only see them in midsummer where I live.

I remember when DS was at primary in the uk, he had watermelon everyday as it was one of the few fruits he eats. The other is mango. We live abroad now, watermelons are everywhere, all the time. No idiot thinks they're cakes though

Having had an opportunity to reflect on this thread, what I would do is sign her up to as many distribution lists/mailing lists on understanding ADHD so that she gets regular mail about what is and isn't a contributing factor in the condition.

Did you say something to her about the cake? Did your son say something to his aunt??
I wouldn't be able to let this go as it was really passive aggressive and not at all a nice thing to do to a kid.

somehow I don't think the UK grows watermelons

Watch this space!

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hereford-worcester-28888299

I cannot even think what crossed her mind

Wow. What a cow. How dare she risk ruining your sons birthday with a passive aggressive "joke". Are you friends on Facebook? I'd be in the kitchen baking up a storm and posting pictures all over Facebook of the result with my own passive aggressive posts about how you've been baking all day to try and make it up to your son for trusting someone else to make his cake.

This is bizarre!

Thats really horrible in so many ways, cake is a focal point of a kids birthday party.