Chicken
Your husband was wearing his cleats when he accidentally stepped on a bird. Luckily this particular bird is a chicken, and chickens are really durable!
Picture the sad, stepped on chicken. It's angrily clucking and chasing your husband around your yard for what he did.
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The only way to stop the chicken from putting on your husband's cleats and stepping on him to death in revenge is to feed it the cake (けい) you were making.
This cake was for your husband, but now he gets nothing. The chicken gets to eat all of the cake in front of him instead.