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

Ffs you're not a stepFord wife! Tell him you bought it, he'll ask you loads of questions about how you've made the mix, temp cooking, frosting etc ... and disaster when you have to do it next time!

He works 70 hours but you're a mum - that's way over 100 hours a week

Wow - that is a bargain cake! $40au roughly, that is about what is actually costs me to make an 8inch cake filled with SMBC and iced with Ganache.... on a side note, PMSL at what you did, as a fellow cake decorator it takes a fair bit of skill and time to learn to smooth a cake perfectly, should have got her to make you a semi naked rough finish cake and it would have been so much easier for her. and you wouldn't have had to wreck it

Plenty of people have brought in meals and passed them off as their own, no need for anyone to think you are crazy LMAO.

I haven't read through the full thread so someone may have already asked this; what if he asks you what you put in it? What if he wants to make it himself in the future?

I think you're an idiot to try and con an ex chef. Especially when you have no idea what the cake tastes like or what the recipe actually was. Still, I guess as he's a nice man he'll pretend he's as stupid as you think he is and play along with it. If I were him, I'd then torture you on a regular basis by asking for another one of your lovely carrot cakes. You'll never be able to bake him one of your own, now...

I don’t think you needed to add any “nuts” to this cake.

This is very strange OP, I initially found the idea slightly funny but the length you are taking it at is strange (especially the whole texting him about it acting like you have just made it and posting it on here so we can laugh at how clueless he is!).

If you didn't want to do it, you should have said so, if you really wanted to buy one and let him guess it was yours, you probably could have just bought it and served it and let him assume it was yours (no lying needed then) as I doubt he would dare question whether you did it or not, coming up with a bunch of lies and texting him about it when you didn't need to, to already get credit over your (non-existing) baking skills is very strange.

You sound like those bonker people who fake their life on social medias, hoping to get attention and to feel more interesting than they are.

If he does notice you didn't do it, he will feel deceived and disappointed you felt the need to lie (and worse laugh about it on the internet...) when he probably wouldn't have cared if he had known it was bought in the first place (I would be very happy with my partner buying me a cake and would appreciate the gesture as much as a home-made one, on the other hand I would be very concerned to find out a partner felt the need to lie to me like that about a cake, and would wonder what type of person, someone who is happy to steal credit for other people's work, I am dating/married to.).

Op

Why are you even agreeing to bake cakes during half term with children with additional needs??

Why would you do that?

I actually don’t care if your husband is Gordon Ramsay, you need to be far far far more assertive. No cakes ever in half term or any school holiday unless he bakes them!!

The whole thing is really weird and unnecessary imo but whatever makes you happy OP

You’re telling pp to get a grip when you’re the one creating elaborate scenarios of chucking cookware in the sink to pretend that you made a cake? Right, then.

🐻 babes....🤢

I must be going soft in my old age, because his reply to your text made me feel guilty!

If my DH had sent that to me, I just couldn't carry on with the lies.

It is a damn good job this website is confidential and not searchable otherwise all our sordid little secrets would be public knowledge.

This is very funny. Loving the effort. Yes this could pass for homemade, to make sure I'd make the icing on the side a bit thicker.

If it makes you happy and takes away some stress who cares.

But, OP. He's a chef . He's going to ask you detailed questions about the recipe, what type of sugar, raising agents etc. Oh darling this is amazing. Can you give me the recipe? etc

You've not just told a little white lie but a massive many egged whopper of a lie covered in icing and you're going to have to dig self in to a great big carrot cake shaped hole trying to cover your tracks.

No sorry OP it's not sweet or romantic it's deceptive and also a bit pathetic.

If you were happy and secure in your relationship then you could say, " Babes it's not realistic for me to bake you that cake in the half term with everything else I have to do but I bought you one from a highly recommended baker because I love you and know how hard you have been working"

This is not comparable with passing a meal off as your own at a dinner party or sending the kids to the school bake sale with bought cakes. This is your partner in life, the person supposedly closest to you, and you don't seem comfortable telling him the truth. If he is not abusive then I imagine he would be gutted if he knew you couldn't be yourself around him.

Sorry, but I find this all very odd and. It's a bit worrying that you can't be honest with your husband about something so basic as a carrot cake. Can you not tell him the story and laugh together about it?

The top looks too rounded and neat to be amateur.

You know this lie is going to go on forever ?
'Could you make that amazing carrot cake again, it's my favourite'

• To others who need a cake 'Gliterzzz makes an amazing carrot cake - she'll make one for your birthday/anniversary party'

'I'll get Gliterzz to give you her carrot cake recipe - it's amazing' 'Something for the bake sale ? Gliterzz will make her famous carrot cake'

If you want to live with that, that's your prerogative, but I'd tell him you bought the cake and decorated it yourself (that's not quite true either - you undecorated it - but it will save you years of trying to reproduce that cake/secretely buying cakes from baker lady).

I think you are completely batshit - but in good way

Why didn’t you just tell him you bought him a cake?

You can still love him and think he’s hardworking without setting up dirty washing up and pretending you made it?

I don’t get it! I get wanting to do something nice. I get thinking he’s hard working but this I don’t get. It’s not even funny, it’s just weird

So why didn't you go to M & S and buy one? Theirs is much cheaper than £20 and is still very scrummy.

Awww ... he’s baby bear 🐻

You ask can you get away with it. Does it look as though you have (could have) made it.
Yes.
Slightly worried about the number of walnuts (pecans?) for some reason they
Make it look less homemade to me (not sure why).
Btw if I ever made a cake that looked that good I’d be staggered. (Not a Baker here).
Good luck.

I don’t know why You didn’t just say you didn’t have the time in the first place, I can’t imagine being in a relationship with someone that I felt the need to do something like this for, it’s just bizarre.

I could just about serve up the cake and lie through omission, but would probably cave if asked directly. I’m just crap at lying and would be wracked with guilt for misleading someone like.

Unless I’ve got it wrong, I think the OP wanted this to be a lighthearted thread. There’s a lot of serious postings on here from people who don’t get it. I think it’s hilarious - and I was married to someone who preferred to lie then tell the truth on anything and everything. I guess the proof of if there’s a problem will be his reaction if the OP tells him or he guesses.

I used to be a caterer and have to say it looks a great cake - the flat top is a bit of a giveaway as it can be tricky to do that. Other than that he might ask what went into it, as in what is he tasting. Some people put crushed pineapple in, and also spices like cinnamon and nutmeg.

Oh...and when I did buffets in peoples’ houses, I’d deliver the food and leave it, and I’m fairly sure some people passed it off as their own cooking!

You lot are fucking insane! This is hilarious, it'll be even funnier if you get found out, one of those things that'd be a running joke. OP's not bloody cheated on the bloke or killed his mother ffs!
Cake looks perfectly fine and I'd believe you could have made it at home.