I really don't understand this

If a friend of yours offered you cake would you accept it?

This is not a trick question. No one will judge you, would you accept it?

Heres the thing dear readers (which I'm pretty sure consist solely of my family and a handful of friends at most, and don't worry mom, I'm not procrastinating... just taking a little homework break...yeah, thats it, a break) I am making my oldest brother's wedding cake. Now this is truly an honor and has the potential to be very stressful. So I do what I tend to do when a potentially stressful event looms on the horizon (with the exception of finals, I'm odd like that), I prepare myself. I'm not 100% sure what it is going to be yet, I'm pretty sure lemon and vanilla are going to be involved. Possibly coconut. But there will be a large tiered cake and then a bunch of regular sized cakes.

Since I don't know what I'm doing I need to make practice cakes (this is the preparation bit). And obviously having a cake laying around is not conducive to weight loss. (By the way I am back on the wagon and lost over 5 of the 15 pounds I had put on since I took a weight watchers hiatus at the beginning of the summer.) So I am gifting cake away. But none of my friends really seem to want it.

Its free cake. Would my brother ask me to make his wedding cake if I couldn't bake a cake? Doesn't this say something about my cake creating skills? One would think. But since none of my friends want to take cake off my hands, I feel like that says otherwise. What is going on?

Now, a rational being would say that they are probably looking after their waist lines too. But come on, 20 year old boys have the metabolism of... some animal with a really high metabolism (horse?). Plus I honestly don't care what they do with the cake. They can pass it off as their own and impress someone special (although it would seem that they don't think my cakes are that great...). They can give it to a homeless person. Share with their room mates. Share it with a class. Have a cake fight. Throw it out. Whatever.

Why don't they want my cake. I'm having cake esteem issues.

Which is disheartening not only because my cake is being snubbed, but all I want to do is bake (which is probably because I am buried under an avalanche of reading). And who am I supposed to give baked goods away to? Should I really even pursue baking if I literally can not give it away?

And as a little administrative note, i still have to get a cable for my camera. So someday there will be pictures. Until then you will have to deal with my emotional cake roller coaster. Sorry.

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If only I were around...I think Madame Meow and I would gladly accept any unwanted cakes.