I Want A Birthday Cake, Too!!!

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Comment by Ruth Cropper on January 11, 2012 at 3:54pm

I understand what everyone of you are saying here.  I make it a point to make a beautiful birthday cake for every member of my immediate family - that's my husband, mom, dad, daughters, their husbands and my grandsons.  I get hurt every year because they don't think they can decorate a cake as well as me, so they don't try.  They don't understand it's the thought.  Every year on the weekend of my husband's birthday he goes deer hunting. I decided to go with him this year to visit my family so I made a cake for my husband to share with them. Our birthday's are 4 days a part. My daughter decided she would do something for my birthday also since she wouldn't see me on my actual birthday.  She went to the grocery and bought me an individual brownie decorated with icing - it was terrible.  I suppose there was a thought there, but it hurts because that is not the way I think of them.

Comment by michelle johnson on January 10, 2012 at 9:32pm

My birthday and my husbands birthdays are coming up..jan 14 & 29. We are celebrating both on his the 29th. I am making him a diet coke can cake. I'd like to make my own also but am not sure if I want fancy or plain. still deciding.

Comment by Emi on October 28, 2011 at 10:44pm

Funny I just found this forum and today is my birthday ,so I am making my Baileys and coffee cheese cream cake covered with chocolate ganache and maybe even decorated, will see !:)    

Comment by Linda Wolff on October 26, 2011 at 8:23pm

I don't know how I missed this group! This is my biggest peeve of all time, not having a beautiful cake given to me for my birthday. On my 25th wedding anniversary, a friend asked me to make a two tiered birthday cake that resembled a wedding cake, only to find out that I was making my own 25th anniversary cake, and that my husband had asked my friend to do the deception. People just don't get it, that as a decorator, I love cakes, and not just my own cakes. I already know what my cakes taste and look  like, I want someone else to take the time and effort to make me a cake. It hasn't happened yet, except when I was a kid and my Mom made me angel food cake (I really wanted a beautifully decorated white cake with all of the goopy icing on it-didn't happen).  The best anyone has ever done so far, is my husband has at least bought a GOOD cake from the best bakery in our area, and not a grocery store cake. And that has only just started in the last three years.

Comment by Jess on August 4, 2010 at 1:38pm

My sister made me mimi-cupcakes last year. Store bought, off brand mix w/ store brand icing (dark chocolate - my least favorite.) It would've been fine, except for the fact that my mom had burned bread in the oven before my sister baked the cupcakes. They tasted like burned garlic bread. Maybe I'll just make my own this year......

Comment by Amanda G on June 4, 2010 at 9:41pm

Hello. Well, usually my family buys a cake for me for my birthday but not this year. This year I will be making cupcakes for mine and my sister's joint birthday party.

Comment by Holly K. on May 25, 2010 at 11:26pm

My wonderful sister made me a small personal cake a few years ago for my birthday, My husband had taken me out for dinner that night and I was STUFFED so I didn't eat the cake that night, apparantely my husband thought it was up for grabs, and when I came home from work the next day the cake was gone :( I still won't let him live that one down!!!!!

Comment by Lilly Wilders on May 20, 2010 at 10:30am

I wanted to make myself a cake last year and my other half wouldn't let me - can see his point but didn't want to have to have a yucky shop-bought cake just because I'm the only one who bakes! This year, he's promised me that he's not only going to make me a cake but a unicorn cake no less! We shall see....

Comment by Eileen S on May 14, 2010 at 10:49am

My daughters decorated a Mother's Day Cake for me this year (they are 7 and 6). I had an extra 6" round in the freezer I took out, and leftover frosting from the Littlest Pet Shop cake I had made (lots of fun colors). I let them pick the tips, I showed them how to hold the bags and let them go to town. I'll post the picture of the results. I also gave them two small half-ball cakes to decorate for themselves.

Comment by Gretchen Belsome on May 14, 2010 at 10:39am

My birthday is in a few weeks. Last year I made a cake for someone else on my birthday. One year I was at Baskin Robbins buying my own cake at the last minutes of my birthday. I have ordered a cake for myself on my birthday. I do think a few years ago my grandmother and my aunt (with down's) made me a cake when we had dinner like 2 weeks later, that was special. Well we will see in a few weeks what I get.

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