She obviously knows how to cook if she can make a strawberry cake. A garnish is used to make the cake look pretty, nothing to do with her ability to cook.

maybe but when you cook something, you always have to make.sure.you got.all.you need BEFORE starting....she obviously didnt.check, and you dont have to.be a chef to cook a cake come on, cake are the easiest because.you HAVE to follow.the receipe otherwise it fails, anyway its might be becaause im a cook that i feel like judging....anyway ill go back to my kitchen....

When baking it is important to make sure you have all the ingredients for a recipe, this is true. However, when it comes to decorating said cake, as long as you aren't paid for something specific, you can do whatever you want to do. It is not absolutely necessary to have the prettiest decorations available in order to be able to bake a cake you want to eat. Decoration is extra. She baked a strawberry cake, she lacked extra purely aesthetic strawberries. That doesn't mean she doesn't know how to bake or that she can't follow a recipe. That means that as long as the cake is edible, decorations are not important enough to halt a desire to have cake due to a lack of them.

I would have said that while eating it and staring at them as I did, hoping it would make them very uncomfortable.