Pretending that I did it ...

[Glitterzzz]

So.. I am no chef but I can bake.. my OH asked me for a carrot cake sometime soon.. usually I would be happy to run round the supermarket get the ingredients and stand in the kitchen to turn out a half decent baked delight some hours later

But

I’m tired. It’s half term. I’m run crazy with two children with additional needs, no school or nursery breaks and trying to keep the house and I’m on a diet myself ... so I cheated.

I contacted a cake maker ordered the cake and was gutted to see how professional it looked when I collected it today considering how much u paid for it... in the need to make it seem I baked it lovingly for him I brought it home and have roughed it up a little... ( smudges in the Cream cheese frosting, a dent here a dent there and whizzed up some pecans and walnuts and whacked them on top...

Unfortunately the real baker had gone to the effort of making little sugar paste carrot decorations which she seems to have apples with a orange substance so I removed them and will just say I attempted a decoration that failed...

Does this cake look home made but not too fancy/ professional? Why do I even care ? 😂😂 I guess I love him and wanted to give him something he wanted and of course all the thanks of how lovely it is and how hard I must have worked

I’m only hanging around for the easy carrot cake recipe!

The rest is mad!

The people who are determined to see this as a zany, Bridget Jones escapade (good reference) are equally determined to make it seem like the posters who don’t find it funny are accusing OP of being abusive or something!

Talk about perspective! This isn’t funny. It’s not a crime, it’s just weird and not funny. Why are some people determined to make a bigger deal of it than that?!

*@Crunchymum
Where has the OP said this is a joke????

By the tone of the OP's posts. I guess some of us get it and others don't. Some know their partners would take what they've done with good humour, others wouldn't.

Well it’s gone down a storm 😂🤣 DP loved it and dived straight into it when he came home at 5 am this morning!

I also had a small slice as today is my weigh in day and if I lose I treat myself and it is very very nice! Moist, light, but moorish ...

I’m glad some people can see my intention... I might confess later on that it wasn’t really me but for the moment my lips are sealed ;-) to all the mums and dads that lie about the tooth fairy or Father Christmas or the Easter bunny ... aren’t you worried that it is destroying the faith your child has in you ?

😃🙋🏻‍♀️

#foodporn

I asked my partner what he would think if I did this (carrot cake being his absolute favourite) and he said he’d find it hilarious and be rather proud of my initiative so maybe I am overreacting after all.

For me the sticking point is OP saying she did it because she wanted the thanks and praise about how hard she must have worked, which for me crosses the line from harmless fun to something rather odd... but maybe I’m taking that too literally.

I got some carrot cake by the way... I can highly recommend Benugo’s!

After 4 years and children I still love him

Were you expecting to not love him after 4 years?

@Glitterzzz it's funny if you tell him, otherwise it's WEIRD! Children will learn about Santa and in the Easter bunny one day, it's not an eternal lie.

(Well it's not funny funny, but it's less weird)

I really did pay £20! Bargain of 2019 So far ;-)

Glad it all worked out as you planned.

Maybe in the Easter holidays you can fake something a little more adventurous, really get the "creative" juices flowing?

• I mean fair another cake by the way!!

Fair = fake

It’s nothing like Father Christmas or the tooth fairy. It’s not about a loss of faith. It’s about how weird it is to do all this rather than say ‘I’ve bought you a lovely carrot cake as a treat’. It must have taken more effort and time than just making a carrot cake and it’s such a pointless lie - I don’t see what it achieves. I don’t think it’s a heinous crime, I just think it’s a bit sad and not at all funny.

IvanaPee, I liked CaptainBrickbeard's reference to Bridget Jones too but what this really reminded me of was Jilly Cooper's oeuvre. Particularly "Rivals" when Taggie was always heroically filling the "deep freeze" (in "Class" JC says "freezer" is common) or slaving over dinner parties.
It tended to be the more insecure or nouveau riche that used to pass off Taggie's cooking as theirs (yes, Sarah Stratton and Valerie Jones, I'm looking at you) while the upmarket Monica Baddingham happily announced it was Taggie's work.
I didn't know this happened in real life though.
All views expressed about insecure/nouveau are based on my perception of people in books and not the OP.
(Although, if you are nouveau riche good on you. I'm nouveau pauvre and it's no fun at all.)

And have the children had to lie about the cake making as well??

Ooh, good Jilly Cooper reference! That’s spot on!

Yes collecting the cake was such a weirdo effort but buying, hiding, and wrapping gifts to then claim they are from a fat man in a red suit who you left food out for the night before is much more sane ... we do that for the magic of Christmas and to make our children happy...

I did it to make my partner happy. If I brought it from the shop it wouldn’t feel as special to him or to me ... anyways off with my head ! Crazy evil woman that I am ! 🤣🤣🤣

To the multiple people trying to go down the route of if I am damaging my children by dragging them
Into my awful deceit and unhinged behaviour they aren’t aware.

I expect the kids are conveniently at their grandparents’ to avoid giving the game away, aren’t they OP.

over50andfab
@Crunchymum
Where has the OP said this is a joke????

By the tone of the OP's posts. I guess some of us get it and others don't. Some know their partners would take what they've done with good humour, others wouldn't.

Well over50andfab the OP has confirmed that it wasn't done for humourous effect as she is yet to decide whether or not to tell him.

Sorry! Carrot Cake.
Sieve 230g self-raising flour
1 !tsp baking powder
1½ tsp ground cinnamon
½ tsp mixed spice
½ tsp ground ginger into a big bowl. Add 230g light brown muscovado sugar or any other sugar you’ve got. Add the grated zest of 1 satsuma or mandarin if you like. Add 100g nuts if you like then 260g grated carrots-no need to peel. Then
3 beaten eggs and 150ml oil (any sort except olive) Stur til it’s mixed. Put in a lined 18 cm tin.(or a bit bigger or smaller but bigger will probably bake a bit quicker, smaller a bit slower. Keep an eye on it and if you have a probe thermometer you want about 95 degrees. Bake at 180 for about 50 minutes. You may need to put a tinfoil hat on it if it’s browning too quickly.
If you have’t got the right spices use what you’ve got-not curry powder obviously, but I have used cumin instead of mixed spice. It was good.

Beat 50g butter with 200g cream cheese. Stir in 100g sieved icing sugar.
Cool cake. Split, fill, ice, eat.

This is completely and utterly bonkers.

... I would probably do the same thing.

I don’t think it’s evil or damaging to the children. I just think it’s baffling! And I wondered how on Earth it would work with children being present and presumably coming with you to pick up the cake. I wasn’t implying that was I any way abusive to the children, just another strange piece of an odd puzzle.

I see the point in the Father Christmas story. I don’t see why saying to your husband ‘I’ve bought you a lovely cake’ means any less than making one. I’d be equally delighted with my husband buying me a fancy cake as I would if he baked it himself. It’s the pointlessness of the lie and all the faffing about trying to disguise it that just makes me go ‘eh? Why?’ Not ‘omg what a psychopath the OP must be, how evil’ - just, why? I don’t get it!

I did it to make my partner happy. If I brought it from the shop it wouldn’t feel as special to him or to me

eh? But you did buy it from a shop.

Weird.