Just because one person is good at something doesn’t mean someone else can’t be good at it too.

Unfortunately, in today’s story, one baker finds that her in-laws refuse to taste her baked goods just because her sister-in-law is also a baker.

Baking is her territory.

Eventually, though, she comes up with a plan for revenge.

Let’s see how the story plays out…

In-laws constantly berate my baking skills in favor of SIL so I copied her cakepop design and tricked them into eating it.

This isn’t necessarily my proudest moment but I am tired of being the outcast.

My (32f) husband “Pete” (34m) comes from a family where the women are all bakers.

I am a baker myself and I used to sell out of my house under my state’s cottage laws but stopped because I like it just being a hobby.

Her husband’s family considers her sister-in-law to be a better baker.

His SIL “Kay” (39) is the one who is “known” for her cupcakes and cake pops. When I first met everyone years ago, it was the first thing I learned.

Everyone talked about everything she made.

Even when Pete mentioned how good my stuff was, everyone would say that Kay sells hers and they’re popular so they must be better.

Whenever I bring treats, they are often left untouched because “they are not Kay’s.”

Yes, I’ve been told that. They ask me to bring something every get together and never touch it.

Kay doesn’t decorate cakes, but she does.

To be clear, Kay is mainly a baker whereas I bake and specialize in professionally decorated cakes.

Kay says that overly decorated cakes are compensating for their bad taste, and Pete’s family agrees.

She decided to try to trick her in-laws with her cake pops.

We had a BBQ Monday for Memorial Day, and everyone made their treats.

Kay decided to bring cake pops. She posted them on her Instagram the night before.

So, and I know this is immature, but I made the exact same ones she did, same flavor and design.

She didn’t let anyone see her bring in her cake pops.

We got there and everyone asked where my treats were.

I said they’re in the car and I’ll get them in a minute.

So I waited for everyone to be outside, and then I brought mine in and put them next to Kay’s.

Everyone praised Kay for the cake pops not realizing she had made them.

After we eat, I notice the family eating my cake pops and not Kay’s.

She didn’t notice at first and then asked if they weren’t feeling cake pops.

They said they just ate them and they were the best she ever made and asked what she did different.

MIL even said they looked so much better in person than in the picture.

Everyone backtracked a little after realizing they weren’t Kay’s cake pops.

Kay was confused and said hers were still on the table.

That’s when I said, “Oh, I brought those. Glad you enjoyed them.”

Her husband said he hadn’t had one yet (lies, he ate two) and everyone else just said “yeah, they were okay.”

Kay didn’t say anything the rest of the night.

Her husband liked her petty revenge and stood up for her.

Pete thought it was funny (he didn’t know what I did until the reveal), but his brother (Kay’s husband) said yesterday that what I did was mean and I’m just mad that Kay is a better baker.

But Pete said it’s ridiculous the family, including Kay, puts down my baking when they won’t even try it all because I’m not Kay.

Good for her husband for sticking up for her!

Let’s see how Reddit reacted to this story…

This reader loved the revenge!

Another reader pointed out that her in-laws created a competition without even knowing it.

This reader would bring up the cake pop story at every family gathering.

Another person suggests refusing to bake for the in-laws.

It’s too bad her in-laws can’t seem to realize that it’s okay to have more than one good baker in the family.

Pretty odd.

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