Dad garners support after kids criticize him for selling late wife's recipe to a bakery

Losing a loved one is heartbreaking. During these times, we often lean on small memories left behind. Many families pass down traditional recipes from their late family members to keep their legacy alive. However, a dad of two, u/Character-Form-3248, who lost his wife three years ago, wanted to share her cake recipe with a bakery. His decision, however, was not met with the same enthusiasm by his family and children.

The dad pointed out that his children were in their late 20s when his wife left this world three years ago. "It's been a hard few years and it is even harder now that I live alone," he shared. However, one thing that healed his heart was that she left behind a memoir, a chocolate cherry cake recipe he loved dearly. "She had a lovely dark chocolate cherry cake. It was my favorite thing that she would make and I always requested it for Father's Day," he mentioned. However, it was not easy to recreate the cake the way his wife would make it because he wasn't that good at baking.

"The notes are not very clear and it never turns out correct. It is depressing spending so much time and it is wrong," the worried dad added. So, he handed over the recipe to his kids and asked them to recreate it. To his dismay, the kids refused to do so because they didn't have the "time and energy" for it, as he mentioned in a comment. "I was told that they would not figure out the recipe and to stop asking," the dad added. Eventually, having no other option, the dad decided to give the recipe to a bakery. However, the bakery he reached out to had one condition. "They agreed as long as I permitted them to sell the cake in the store. It didn't take them long to figure it out and it is almost the same as my wife's," the dad said.

Excited that he would now taste his wife's chocolate cherry cake again, the dad revealed it to his kids. "I bought one for Father's Day and my kids were happy about the cake until I told them the bakery did it," the dad wrote. It turns out that his kids were infuriated that he sold their mother's recipe to a bakery. They started criticizing their dad for doing so, though he had no other way of figuring out the recipe. "I just wanted to eat her cake again," he added. He turned to the internet, asking if he was wrong to sell the recipe and got immense support in return.

"I'd think of this as a way for your wife to live on through what she created to bring happiness to others. It's not like you did it for the money," reassured u/Only-Ingenuity7889. "Your children have no right to complain about this. They were fine with it when enjoying the cake, weren't they? They didn't want to attempt the recipe. The bakery did. Everyone gets to have cake again," said u/lihzee. "Recipes aren't magic. Someone's eventually going to figure out the precise measurements and ingredients that make the food. If it helps remember her better, then no big whoop," added u/corona22extra.