It's better than "cutting the cheese"

I don’t mind cutting the cake. I do mind my mother and mother in law who sit there like the Queens of England waiting to be served and don’t feel inclined to help pass slices out while I’m sweating and going fast as I can.

Anonymous wrote:What a dumb question. What do you think gay dads do? Skip cake completely?!

Donuts.

My DH would cut the slices TOO big and there wouldn't be enough.

I am a mom and I always cut the cake because I bake the cakes. I secretly hate it but I think people think that I might want to do it or they don't want to mess up my creation? Even when I make the cake for friends and family I end up cutting it. Def not a gender thing though.

I think my husband cuts the cake. We usually tag team dessert handout.

What a dumb question. What do you think gay dads do? Skip cake completely?!

Cupcakes. Get cupcakes.

Nah. At DS' party this year DH cut it. At the bday party we went to last week, Grandma cut it. I've definitely cut it too. Don't think there is any thought process behind it for us, usually one just starts wrangling the kids together and that leaves the other one on cake duty.

I don't do this, and I'm the mom. I've told my husband that it feels like I'm trying to defuse a bomb...a dozen children crawling all over me to provide them a slice of sugar lard and trying to mentally calculate how much to give each person so everyone gets enough but there's not a lot left over either.

He happily does it, and I pass out forks / napkins instead. It's a small thing, but I'm much happier this way.

Lol no. My husband is perfectly capable of cutting the cake. Sometimes grandma does it too

Do you mean as opposed to the Dad? No, either parent can cut the cake.

Never realized that was a mom job.

What's the problem?

Are there just some things like cutting and serving the birthday cake that the MOM always has to do?