To think this is a really fucking weird thing to do?

[SummersB]

Brought a cake into work the other day - Banana & Blueberry, it was bloody lovely!
One of my colleagues asked me where I had the recipe from and I told her the author. I’ve previously made this before and have shared the recipe with a few of my colleagues, but in the interest of full disclosure I had no intention of sharing it with this particular one because to be honest I can’t stand her (she is a higher banding - band 6 nursing staff - and due to a massive chip in her shoulder she makes junior staff’s working life a misery by being patronising and belittling at every opportunity and is therefore really unpleasant to work with).
Another colleague just told me that a few days after I had brought my cake in she came into work with exactly the same cake, obviously having google searched the recipe and attempted to recreate it. We had a bit of a laugh about it because apparently it was shit as she’d burnt it and managed to make it really dry. But am I right in thinking that’s a really odd thing to do? Who tastes a cake their workmate baked, goes home, looks the recipe up online and comes in two days later saying “ta-da, look, you know the cake you made the other day - well I could have made any other cake in the world but I’ve decided to look it up and make exactly the same one and bring in to work too”? Or is it just me?

[Italiangreyhound]

It is so weird.... I would be really surprised if anyone I worked with did this.

[Smileymoon]

Have only read the OP but no, I don't think that is weird. Maybe she doesn't realise you don't like her and just tried making a cake she liked. Seems normal enough.

[Onemoremakesthree]

Of course it's weird... she didn't make the cake to eat at home, she brought it in to the same workplace and it wasn't months later it was two days!!!
Whatever personality issues or differences the OP and the colleague have, that is bad form to bring in an identical cake two days later; apart from anything else variety is the spice of life

[Cheeeeislifenow]

That's not off I often try and recreate recipes. You don't own the recipe and I think you were mean to laugh at her attempt.

[ThatssomebadhatHarry]

Onemoremakesthree lets do a poll!

Hands up mumsnetter if you would eat more cake two hours later never mind two days?

[emilybrontescorsett]

I think it is wierd.
I also think it's fine to say it's xs recipe and let her Google it.

[Aridane]

If she nicked "your" recipe OP, then instead of a nasty post here, you should have reported it Stollen

[Aridane]

Look, look !!

www.mumsnet.com/food/recipe/2358-Blueberry-and-banana-cake

[Aridane]

It's a mumsnet recipe made today!

[Aridane]

Yum

livforcake.com/blueberry-banana-cake/

[Aridane]

A BBC recipe here

www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/1572/banana-and-blueberry-muffins-

[headinhands]

I just nicked the Lancashire hotpot recipe from the recipe are here. Someone somewhere must be furious with me?

[PierreBezukov]

What she did wasn't weird.

You and your colleague sound really bitchy and unpleasant, sorry OP

[Awhoosh]

I think it’s a bit weird. From what OP says, this is a not very nice colleague who thinks she is better than others,
So in that context she might be trying to be competitive.

Of course OP is writing from her viewpoint but I wouldn’t automatically assume she’s lying, like some posters

[ralfeesmum]

At least she burnt it, SummersB. That'll teach her to try and pull rank in the cake-baking competition of life!

Cheers.

[smackbangwhollop]

A different cake is acceptable as everyone liked having a cake treat. The exact same cake is weird. She does not sound like a particularly nice, kind person so I doubt it was done with good intentions. Just wanted to prove a point, no doubt. Maybe she thought it was a way of making people like her.

[AnastasiaVonBeaverhausen]

Maybe it was so nice she wanted it again.

[Bignosenobum]

sounds like she is insecure. Maybe she is trying emulate you as she has low self esteem. That is what usually happens with bullies.