OP said they had to remove a portion of the cake that was burnt. at that point just leave the whole thing at home. if it was in the oven long enough to (partially) burn, the rest of it is going to be overly dry and unappetising. just try again with something else another time. or buy grocery store cupcakes. even easier
I mean regardless i just dont like sweets and cake or anything like that. I alway politely turn it down and people get all weird. Im like show me a bag of ruffles and i will down that shit like a starving man but i just dont like candy or sweet things.
You think the coworkers were like, "hey Peter, this cake sucks! Looks like literal shit! We won't eat it cuz we hate you!". And then they threw it on the ground?
So after reading reddit stories on how people prepare food (dogs licking fingers) and how YOU yourself said that part of it was burned... I wouldn't eat it either.
Looks like they dropped it and it isn't covered. I would imagine most peoples breaks were over before they could distinguish what they were looking at. Never even had a chance to eat it.
I do not think, it looks disgusting. I would not necessarily want to eat such a cake wearing a white shirt and would have prefered a knife nearby to cut off a piece/have it offered in mothesized pieces, but besides that, I have eaten some chocolate fudge cake that did not look much different from this one and tasted great.
I’m with you. It’s the nice way of saying it looks like shit homie. OP said they had to cut away the burnt parts hahaha come on man. No one here is being straight up. No one ate that because it’s terrifying.
I remember when I was a child and we had a potluck at school. I told Mom the night before that I was supposed to bring potato salad and she was livid because she had only a scoop of mayo and back then grocery stores closed at 9-10pm. She proceeded to make a small salad and I brought it to school the next morning. It was dry as hell and I was so embarrassed, but I thanked Mom for making the effort. Fast forward 15 years later, I am meeting with old classmates for a drink and one of them brings up the dry ass potato salad from elementary school. Guessing no one remembered it was my dish because they all ragged on how awful and dry it was, so much that they remembered the trauma of it years later. 🤣. I sure as shit kept my mouth shut. Good times.
Your mother is a saint. I would not have done anything to teaxh you a lesson in organization. I hate it when children are like "welp i need this tomorrow" at like 9 in the evening
I had to laugh out loud visualizing your story. A potato salad lacking mayonnaise… that’s basically just a bowl of potato’s… just sitting there between actual meals … a bowl of potatoes… I can feel your mums frustration :’)
It was just a major holiday for a lot of people, and it is a holiday of fasting for another group. Those who had major celebrations over the weekend probably are trying to avoid extra sugar now. I wouldn't take it personally.
Always make something you have experience with making correctly… Me: “I brought microwaved canned soup for my coworkers on my birthday and no one wanted any”. Sad face…
On that note, baking a cake using a box takes zero skill. It’s the mix, eggs, oil. That’s it. Set your oven to what the box tells you too. And set the timer for how long it tells you to bake it. A 10-year-old could do it.
Okay so what I'm piecing together is you baked cake, manhandled it a bunch to remove burnt bits and presented the above to coworkers? Yeah hard pass I wouldn't have taken any either. It looks like you brought in leftovers.
I hade a classmate this year bring in homemade bread and both slices I tried were full of long black hair, which is even weirder in retrospect because that classmate is a ginger with short hair
I made something for my boyfriend once that tasted great but looked awful. He playfully said “the eyes gotta eat too”. He’s not wrong, and this applies to you as well. Your cake looks like leftovers from 5 days ago and the different sized pieces make it look very sketchy. I wouldn’t have eaten it either 😂 Happy birthday though! Your heart was in the right place :)
Yeah I typically do not touch other people's food in work unless specifically offered to me. It's not because I don't want any, mainly because I don't want to be accused of stealing someone else's food.
100% this. I don’t trust any food someone brings in. It’s not that I think you did anything intentional, it’s that I see people on the daily not wash their hands after using the restroom and I’ve seen the state of some people. I just don’t trust the food was prepared sanitarily
Covid really fucked with people, especially if there was a long WFH period. I work in manufacturing so we've been working this whole time and still occasionally have food days.
I never touched anything 'homemade' that coworkers would bring in. I see your rancid asses in the bathroom taking a nasty duke and walking out without so much as a glance at the sink.
OP I mean this with love and kindness but it doesn't look appetizing at all. The irony here is that it probably tastes good but sometimes presentation is what does the trick. This is just a sad tray of cake bits that may or may not have weed in them.
I've noticed with covid that homemade foods aren't received as well as prepackaged items so please don't take it personally. It's like birthday candles- I can't recall a birthday in the last couple years where I saw them!
I brought some store mini-cupcakes to work as well as a small separate package of gluten-free ones because there are two GF coworkers….only one person took one ☹️
If you want people to take your baked good it helps if there are paper plates and utensils to pick up and eat the cake with. You could also go with something grab and go like a cupcake or cookies.
Tbh, I wouldn’t touch any food at work as long as it’s not individually packaged and sealed. Even then, it check the best-before date. Can’t trust anyone with food.
Wild guess but it's probably due to the whole pandemic thing that might be going on right now XD I totally forgot that that may be a concern for others and was quite upset when none of my peers wanted any of the cake n cookies I brought in for our final day of class.
These 'I did [x] and nobody arrived' self-pity posts are by far the worst of the content uploaded to this subreddit. The spontaneous/accidental or unpredictable posts where, idk, a burst pipe destroys someone's £2000 MacBook actually make me think 'damn that sucks' - These types of posts just scream 'woe is me, the world does not sufficiently praise me for my efforts'
I will happily have some packaged/shop bought treats, but I don’t take any home baked stuff from my colleagues or stuff brought in by customers. I’m sure they were delicious, but you just don’t know the level of hygiene people have at home, and that puts me off.
Who the fuck cares that no one ate your cake. No is forced to eat it. Take another year and grow up and relize people not eating your brown gross looming cake means literally nothing in the grand scheme. I wouldn’t eat it either it looks burnt
Very sweet of you to do this OP and I'm sorry that no one ate your cake, but did you really not see this coming? Your cake looks really unappetizing. I honestly wouldn't even identify that as a cake to begin with because it looks like brownies because it's so flat. Is it frosted? Most importantly, it's cut into unusual pieces and arranged in a strange way. Why are there a bunch of pieces missing if no one took any? If I saw someone walk into work with that I would think they were bringing in leftover brownies from a kid's birthday party over the weekend. I definitely wouldn't take any.
I hate when people bring in cake. A lot of people are on diets and these little things are the catalyst that send me down the road to obesity after months of salads. I admire those people for not taking the cake.
I guess it depends if they think you’re hygienic. There are some coworkers in which I really wouldn’t want to eat their food based on the amount of beard dandruff that sheds onto their desk everyday.
What’s with all the front page posts lately with people complaining that friends or coworkers or dates didn’t show up for a party/date or eat food that the OP cooked? Seems really whiny. This “cake” looks gross. Plus lots of people don’t like to eat food brought from coworkers’ homes. Stop whining OP.
Yikes you baked your own birthday cake… poorly at that… you burnt it… you cut it with a spoon or some shit. You didn’t put frosting on it… come on 🤦🏻♂️
Honestly, I used to be first into the kitchen when someone brought cake. Now, post Covid, I don't touch it. It's nothing personal and it was a lovely thought OP!
I'm in a weird spot with food right now. Communal, shared dishes such as a buffet line, or pre-cut-up funky ass cake like this, I still can't get comfortable eating them. On the other had, I have had minimal problem ordering fast food which had questionable food handling practices BEFORE this whole pandemic.
It looks questionable. I’m sorry to say that. I don’t mean to offend, but it’s just hacked up randomly. It doesn’t look like something you should present to others to eat.
The color of this « cake » is way too close to a poop. Also the shape and the cutting of it makes it worse so I totally understand your colleagues. Happy birthday still!
You know what would go nice with this cake? Some clear cups full of jello.
We need a third post now so we can have a trilogy
Ah yes... non-alcoholic large cups of jello for adults
LOL I'm too lazy to find the post and hyperlink it but that's an underated comment
Can anybody clue me in?
Don’t you make me laugh that hard this early goddamnit!
Holy fuck dude I laught so much my mom came to check if I'm ok, thank you for the comment good sir
HEARD! lol
Looks like somebody took some to me.
OP said they had to remove a portion of the cake that was burnt. at that point just leave the whole thing at home. if it was in the oven long enough to (partially) burn, the rest of it is going to be overly dry and unappetising. just try again with something else another time. or buy grocery store cupcakes. even easier
Post Covid, I’m not too surprised. Peoples attitudes have changed, especially with germs, shared foods, and people touching food
I mean regardless i just dont like sweets and cake or anything like that. I alway politely turn it down and people get all weird. Im like show me a bag of ruffles and i will down that shit like a starving man but i just dont like candy or sweet things.
No one ate homies cake so he comes on Reddit to vent then just gets roasted 10x harder. Absolutely brutal.
If this is a genuine post then dude really needs the help he’s getting
You think the coworkers were like, "hey Peter, this cake sucks! Looks like literal shit! We won't eat it cuz we hate you!". And then they threw it on the ground?
If we roasted him any harder he'd look like the cake
" I burnt it, chopped it into random pieces and nobody wanted any."
Tiny pieces, and fucking humongous pieces. You can have one.
Lmfaooo
What a bunch of jerks.
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Who fucking serves cake like this? Leave it in the goddamn pan.
Lmao the “well that sucks” here should be “I made a cake and it turned out like this”
So after reading reddit stories on how people prepare food (dogs licking fingers) and how YOU yourself said that part of it was burned... I wouldn't eat it either.
I suddenly lost my appetite
Plus, the people at this office know this guy.
This is why I don't eat home cooked meals from people I don't know well. People can appear clean but be fucken animals at home.
Being straight, that cake doesn't look good at all and it's not even portioned out.
My grandparents washed their dishes by letting their dogs lick their plates and pans. They called it "the lick cycle".
Dogs licking fingers when they make what?
Yeah, I was just reading the post from the person who only wipes ONCE after they poop. "Have some brownies, I made them myself." Scratches ass
Wait I just remembered a real horror story of a guy who used to eat the crackers his coworker would bring in, but no else would eat besides him.
Haha no hate, but tbh probably no one took any because it looks like it was dropped on the ground, then picked up and pieced back together.
Looks like they dropped it and it isn't covered. I would imagine most peoples breaks were over before they could distinguish what they were looking at. Never even had a chance to eat it.
It doesn't even look like cake. It looks like brownies
Sure has the color of bloody stool
Ok, not hating either, but I laughed hard because that is what I thought too!!!
I do not think, it looks disgusting. I would not necessarily want to eat such a cake wearing a white shirt and would have prefered a knife nearby to cut off a piece/have it offered in mothesized pieces, but besides that, I have eaten some chocolate fudge cake that did not look much different from this one and tasted great.
Presentation matters? People eat with their eyes first.
Maybe some powdered sugar to take the poop shine off it.
Damn, do you watch Brooklyn-99, I got a real Charles Boyle feeling from your comment…
I tried eating with my eyes one and now Im' blidn
The presentation is very off-putting
I’m with you. It’s the nice way of saying it looks like shit homie. OP said they had to cut away the burnt parts hahaha come on man. No one here is being straight up. No one ate that because it’s terrifying.
Looks like shit
I used to think the phrase was off-pudding, like, ich, that pudding is off!
This. Zero for presentation.
That thing looks like it was found in a dumpster on a rainy Monday afternoon.
You should be off pudding!
I'll eat it considering its homemade. Homemade cakes are the best.
looks like shit my man
I honestly think half of it is burnt. I See charred pieces
The blunt, directness of your comment made me laugh out loud.
This right here lmao. I wouldn't take any either and I love cake.
I know you said half was burned and you can’t cut straight but to someone who doesn’t know, it looks like half eaten leftovers
It literally looks like Easter leftovers that were left in the fridge for a few days before Easter
It really does
Why is it cut like that? It looks like brownies cut by a toddler...
Was it cut up in the office? Looks like someone used their fingers and a ball point pen.
Brownies > Cake ... pass the milk. Happy Birthday!
I'm a baking noob and my brownies look very similar, the texture and the way they're cut. lol
With finger prints my fav
I remember when I was a child and we had a potluck at school. I told Mom the night before that I was supposed to bring potato salad and she was livid because she had only a scoop of mayo and back then grocery stores closed at 9-10pm. She proceeded to make a small salad and I brought it to school the next morning. It was dry as hell and I was so embarrassed, but I thanked Mom for making the effort. Fast forward 15 years later, I am meeting with old classmates for a drink and one of them brings up the dry ass potato salad from elementary school. Guessing no one remembered it was my dish because they all ragged on how awful and dry it was, so much that they remembered the trauma of it years later. 🤣. I sure as shit kept my mouth shut. Good times.
Your mother is a saint. I would not have done anything to teaxh you a lesson in organization. I hate it when children are like "welp i need this tomorrow" at like 9 in the evening
I had to laugh out loud visualizing your story. A potato salad lacking mayonnaise… that’s basically just a bowl of potato’s… just sitting there between actual meals … a bowl of potatoes… I can feel your mums frustration :’)
It was just a major holiday for a lot of people, and it is a holiday of fasting for another group. Those who had major celebrations over the weekend probably are trying to avoid extra sugar now. I wouldn't take it personally.
Also the cake looks like shit
So true
And a third group isn’t eating leavened breads
And with swim suit season around the corner!
We're also still in a pandemic. My workplace still isn't allowing communal food unless it's prepackaged.
And another group isn’t eating grains for a week
Spend some time learning how to bake before expecting people to eat your confections.
Always make something you have experience with making correctly… Me: “I brought microwaved canned soup for my coworkers on my birthday and no one wanted any”. Sad face…
On that note, baking a cake using a box takes zero skill. It’s the mix, eggs, oil. That’s it. Set your oven to what the box tells you too. And set the timer for how long it tells you to bake it. A 10-year-old could do it.
This looks like the episode of It's Always Sunny, where the gang makes their own energy bars laced with sedatives to win a dance competition.
Energy balls*
Okay so what I'm piecing together is you baked cake, manhandled it a bunch to remove burnt bits and presented the above to coworkers? Yeah hard pass I wouldn't have taken any either. It looks like you brought in leftovers.
that looks like my shit, no offense
None taken... just like the cake.
All due respect and no offense, that’s the shittiest looking cake I have ever seen.
i stopped eating home made things at work after
Ahhhhhjh, and 3 is the worst!
I stopped eating the food my coworkers made because I figured out that half of them don't wash their hands after using the toilet...
Same. People are fucking animals in their kitchens. I've had enough food poisonings for a lifetime.
I hade a classmate this year bring in homemade bread and both slices I tried were full of long black hair, which is even weirder in retrospect because that classmate is a ginger with short hair
really nice of you to go through the trouble of making them op but they don’t look appealing at all i’m afraid
Is it even nice if they’re gonna put that little effort into it? It’s almost insulting
What trouble? This shit looks like it took 5 seconds of actual wprk
I wouldn’t eat that if I was your coworker sorry, presentation is not appealing in the slightest
Im fat, love to eat, and would love to eat these. But I simply just don't eat anything that my coworkers bring in.
"Brenda brought brownies, they're in the break room, hardly any cat hair this time"
They banned people bringing in food for everyone at my last job because one time somebody got the entire staff sick.
You never know. Sometimes the nicest folk are the biggest psychos
Is it different if I picked a cake up from a shop??
I mean…..happy birthday but it looks awful
This looks like leftover cake from last week. Also why are the cuts so random?
According to OP... They can't cut straight.
I made something for my boyfriend once that tasted great but looked awful. He playfully said “the eyes gotta eat too”. He’s not wrong, and this applies to you as well. Your cake looks like leftovers from 5 days ago and the different sized pieces make it look very sketchy. I wouldn’t have eaten it either 😂 Happy birthday though! Your heart was in the right place :)
Cause it doesn’t look like a cake
I thought they were brownies
People can be weird with food brought into the workplace. Don't sweat it. Enjoy and then tell them how good it was.
if i walked into the break room and saw some uncovered, roughly carved, nondescript dessert bars, it's just not happening.
Yeah I typically do not touch other people's food in work unless specifically offered to me. It's not because I don't want any, mainly because I don't want to be accused of stealing someone else's food.
There are two kinds - the one where you‘ll be happy to get at least a crumb and then the ones like in this post.
Yeah, I also rarely eat food from other people, especially if I don't know how it was prepared
100% this. I don’t trust any food someone brings in. It’s not that I think you did anything intentional, it’s that I see people on the daily not wash their hands after using the restroom and I’ve seen the state of some people. I just don’t trust the food was prepared sanitarily
Covid really fucked with people, especially if there was a long WFH period. I work in manufacturing so we've been working this whole time and still occasionally have food days.
Yeah.... I don't eat anything people with indoor cats make. shiver
I wouldn’t eat that either tbh.
To be fair, it doesn't look very good
it looks like leftovers.
Wtf kind of cake is that lmao
Is it even cake? Looks like brownies.
I mean... I wouldn't eat it. No offense, and it's a nice gesture. However, it looks like shit and not worth the calories
"When you bring your leftover homemade cake to work because it tastes like shit, and noone eats it ....."
I never touched anything 'homemade' that coworkers would bring in. I see your rancid asses in the bathroom taking a nasty duke and walking out without so much as a glance at the sink.
Probably because they look like shit lol
Maybe they didn’t want to steal someone’s brownies. Happy Birthday from Reddit!!
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Why are half the posts here just people embarrassing themselves?
The thought is there. The execution is not. That looks like shit, literally.
Because, and no offense, it looks like a stoner who didn't know how to make a cake lazily made some pot brownies.
Presentation matters.
OP I mean this with love and kindness but it doesn't look appetizing at all. The irony here is that it probably tastes good but sometimes presentation is what does the trick. This is just a sad tray of cake bits that may or may not have weed in them.
Looks chocolaty... Maybe ppl are watching what they eat, trying to shave off the weight they put on Easter celebration, ya know.
I've noticed with covid that homemade foods aren't received as well as prepackaged items so please don't take it personally. It's like birthday candles- I can't recall a birthday in the last couple years where I saw them!
Next time just stop by Walmart or something and pick up some cupcakes, man. Not everyone is a baker, and that’s okay - just don’t take it personally.
I brought some store mini-cupcakes to work as well as a small separate package of gluten-free ones because there are two GF coworkers….only one person took one ☹️
Poor OP's weed brownies are getting dragged so hard 😂😂
These comments 😂
If you want people to take your baked good it helps if there are paper plates and utensils to pick up and eat the cake with. You could also go with something grab and go like a cupcake or cookies.
Looks like shaped poop
Lmfao this is why I look at the comments
more for you..
Why is this the theme of this sub now?
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I wouldn't take any either. The shapes are very odd. Presentation is always key as people eat with their eyes first.
In my experience, the uglier the cake. The better it is
People hating on the presentation, but fuck them. I'd take a piece. Hell, I'd take 3 if nobody saw me. Cake is cake.
Not surprised as It doesn’t look appetising sorry. If you need a recipe or some help, dm me or go to
Looks bomb as fuck they missed out
They look like the weed brownies I made when already high. Delicious but NSFW.
Looks disgusting tbh… If you’re going to cook for others then learn how to cook first? Otherwise people will not eat it.
No kidding. Presentation is important
Did you tell anyone? 🙂
Tbh, I wouldn’t touch any food at work as long as it’s not individually packaged and sealed. Even then, it check the best-before date. Can’t trust anyone with food.
Mmm sharing food during a pandemic, yum.
People aren’t obligated to eat your food. Don’t be offended. Just do you next time
Thats a cake? Thought them were weed brownies lmao
I see. Well, you’ll have to poison them another way.
Wild guess but it's probably due to the whole pandemic thing that might be going on right now XD I totally forgot that that may be a concern for others and was quite upset when none of my peers wanted any of the cake n cookies I brought in for our final day of class.
Did you tell there's cake?
These 'I did [x] and nobody arrived' self-pity posts are by far the worst of the content uploaded to this subreddit. The spontaneous/accidental or unpredictable posts where, idk, a burst pipe destroys someone's £2000 MacBook actually make me think 'damn that sucks' - These types of posts just scream 'woe is me, the world does not sufficiently praise me for my efforts'
I will happily have some packaged/shop bought treats, but I don’t take any home baked stuff from my colleagues or stuff brought in by customers. I’m sure they were delicious, but you just don’t know the level of hygiene people have at home, and that puts me off.
Who the fuck cares that no one ate your cake. No is forced to eat it. Take another year and grow up and relize people not eating your brown gross looming cake means literally nothing in the grand scheme. I wouldn’t eat it either it looks burnt
Very sweet of you to do this OP and I'm sorry that no one ate your cake, but did you really not see this coming? Your cake looks really unappetizing. I honestly wouldn't even identify that as a cake to begin with because it looks like brownies because it's so flat. Is it frosted? Most importantly, it's cut into unusual pieces and arranged in a strange way. Why are there a bunch of pieces missing if no one took any? If I saw someone walk into work with that I would think they were bringing in leftover brownies from a kid's birthday party over the weekend. I definitely wouldn't take any.
Don’t worry, it’s not cause they don’t like you, it’s cause your cake looks like shit. More for you I guess?
I hate when people bring in cake. A lot of people are on diets and these little things are the catalyst that send me down the road to obesity after months of salads. I admire those people for not taking the cake.
I guess it depends if they think you’re hygienic. There are some coworkers in which I really wouldn’t want to eat their food based on the amount of beard dandruff that sheds onto their desk everyday.
i wouldnt have eaten that. i love cake, and youre a nice person, but no, i uhhhh just had some.
What’s with all the front page posts lately with people complaining that friends or coworkers or dates didn’t show up for a party/date or eat food that the OP cooked? Seems really whiny. This “cake” looks gross. Plus lots of people don’t like to eat food brought from coworkers’ homes. Stop whining OP.
The presentation is… not appealing.
Since COVID, I neither make food for nor eat food from work.
Bringing a half burnt cake to celebrate your own birthday is a real strange ego flex!
Plot twist: I work from home.
Looks like shit, but I bet it still tastes good
I thought those were brownies 😶
Looks weird
Yikes you baked your own birthday cake… poorly at that… you burnt it… you cut it with a spoon or some shit. You didn’t put frosting on it… come on 🤦🏻♂️
Are they edibles?
Doesn't look very edible to me
This sucks because presentation matters, and as you say OP, if was burn in some places maybe it doesn't taste as good as you think.
Honestly, I used to be first into the kitchen when someone brought cake. Now, post Covid, I don't touch it. It's nothing personal and it was a lovely thought OP!
Nobody took any because it literally looks like solidified cat shit.
The uneven cutting makes it look worse.
That is one shameful looking cake. Did you cut it with scissors?
....this does not look appetizing.
Deviled eggs are a winner at potluck.
What’s with this sub and thinly-veiled self pity?
Is this the sub now? “No one ate the food I made”
“No one came to my party”
Oh wow…you mean no one wanted to eat an unappetizing looking cake that had burnt pieces cut off it? s/
Yeah, cuz it looks like shit.
That looks gross
let me fix your title.
Presentation is key
The presentation makes it look like you brought in left overs. People don't want to eat others left overs.
shittyfoodporn
I'm in a weird spot with food right now. Communal, shared dishes such as a buffet line, or pre-cut-up funky ass cake like this, I still can't get comfortable eating them. On the other had, I have had minimal problem ordering fast food which had questionable food handling practices BEFORE this whole pandemic.
“I baked an unappetizing ‘cake’ for people I work with”
You tried your best and failed miserably. The lesson is: "Never try!".
It looks questionable. I’m sorry to say that. I don’t mean to offend, but it’s just hacked up randomly. It doesn’t look like something you should present to others to eat.
Stick to 3D printing
Looks like poop. And brownies not cake.
The color of this « cake » is way too close to a poop. Also the shape and the cutting of it makes it worse so I totally understand your colleagues. Happy birthday still!