File this under: THE WORLD DOES NOT REVOLVE AROUND YOU AND YOUR CHILDREN (and other fallacies of Park Slope Life).

I saw this on Park Slope Parents. It seems to be an attempt "to flame" Two Little Red Hens Bakery, the south Slope’s beloved pretty cake shop. Personally, I think it’s the craziest thing I ever heard. You ask a baker to change her recipe (to substitue raisins for nuts, and you get mad when when she says that she won’t. COME ON, NOW. It’s a carrot cake – it has NUTS. That’s the way it is.

For my kid’s first birthday, I wanted to get a really nice cake and immediately thought of Two Little Red Hens Bakery on 8th Ave.  I thought a carrot cake would be nice since it’s got some form of nutrition tucked away .  I ordered the cake, spent quite a while going over the details and for some reason decided to get a slice to go, so I could sample it with my nanny.  I got home took a bite and although delicious, it was full of nuts.  I understand that many recipes do call for nuts, but they can be left out, or substitued with raisins I immediately called, assuming it would be no problem and that it’s been done before,and asked to have the cake made without nuts.  They put me on hold, came back and said they couldn’t do this.  I asked if the cakes were made fresh and they said yes, and so I asked why this couldn’t be done.  She said it was against their policy.  I was quite shocked.  I asked to speak with the owner or a manager and was again put on hold for  a long time, and the same girl came back and said, it’s against their policy and they can’t change the order…  I’m quite shocked that a bakery that supposedly makes fresh cakes, can not accomodate such a simple request.