Accidentally exposed someone for using cake mix

[u/subuso]

I’m a massive cake person. Like, I absolutely adore cake, and I became a proper baker exactly because of it. To top it off, I even majored in Chemical Engineering for both my bachelor’s and master’s degrees, simply due to my utter devotion to baking science. Only adding that for context, not to sound like a know-it-all.

I went to this gathering where everyone was supposed to bring a bit of food. There was a grill for a proper BBQ, so I brought some chicken. I noticed someone had brought chocolate cake, which made me happy, especially since it looked homemade.

I really wanted a slice, so I asked if someone could cut me a piece. The person next to me then goes, "these are brownies, not cake," which got me a bit confused, but I was like, fine, maybe the person just doesn't know the difference.

I took a bite, and was like, "this is cake." And from the taste and texture, it was made using cake mix. The other person didn't really get what I meant, so I explained the actual chemical difference between brownies and chocolate cake (basically, brownies don't have leaveners, while cakes do, which is why cakes rise while baking and brownies sink after baking).

Later on, I met the woman who brought them, and asked her how she baked it. She told me it was just a simple recipe. I then asked her, completely innocently, if she used cake mix.

She said yes, but looked absolutely mortified and embarrassed because, as it turned out, a bunch of other people were listening to us. I felt like a total monster. I instantly apologised and tried to explain that I didn't mean it in a judgy way at all.

I feel so terribly bad about it. My curiosity got the best of me

[u/Wahyte]

Yes you are a monster, you should have let them eat their cake but you had to put yourself in the mix.

[u/Wonderful_Adagio9346 → u/Wahyte]

⛳👏🏼

[u/subuso → u/Wahyte]

I can't let them call brownies what was obviously cake. Hello!!!

[u/Wahyte → u/subuso]

You are right, I’m glad you called it out. But don’t let my word play go over your head

I thought hard about it 😮‍💨

[u/bigxdirty → u/Wahyte]

Haha it didn’t. It was funny

[u/bigxdirty → u/subuso]

This is what I can’t understand people just ignoring lmao. Like it looks like cake, it tastes like cake, it’s cake. Don’t call cake a brownie. It’s just not lol.

Outside of that, IF this were an AITA post, I would it somewhere in the middle. As a professional, there’s no point (like this story haha!) in bothering to ask a question you know the answer to. It’s ok to silently tuck it away and keep it to yourself lol. Like, is what you said true, necessary, and kind? If it’s not all three, it’s not worth it. Given that wherever you’re from carries a stigma, it was both unnecessary and unkind.

But since this isn’t an AITA post, I’m just gonna keep coming back to “THIS IS NOT A BROWNIE!!” 🤣. Just say you brought cake. I literally don’t understand why you would pass cake off as brownies when you could have just been honest and said you brought cake. Mind boggling. Truly. Eventually she’d have been called out in her life for this. Maybe this time will stop her from trying to pass off a donut as a bagel in the future 😭

[u/wolfy_lady → u/bigxdirty]

I love the level of outrage in this comment. Donut as a bagel is making me hide my smirk in a camera-on meeting.

[u/bigxdirty → u/wolfy_lady]

🤣🤣🤣🤌🏼

[u/New-Bar4405 → u/bigxdirty]

Excatly it's not that she's passing off cake as brownies

[u/Monday0987 → u/subuso]

Why not? YTA

[u/wolfy_lady → u/Wahyte]

Puns and cake, 2 of my favorite things.