Do you make your own birthday cake?

[Rivka]

For much of my marriage, if I wanted a birthday cake I had to make it myself. A couple of years ago I thought about how long it would be before my daughter was old enough to make one, and then I sat my husband down and said, "You have an engineering degree. You are fully capable of following the directions on the back of a cake mix box."

 

And hey! It turned out he was! He gets totally nervous about it, but once a year he makes me a cake. (And the questions he asks are really funny.)

 

Do you make your own cake? Does it matter to you if you have to make your own cake or not? Just curious.

[Nakia]

Nope. Every year my husband brings home a cake on my birthday complete with candles. :D

[GWOB]

My dh makes mine, even if he has been working nights.:001_wub: I like him.

[JoyfulMama]

The last 2 years my parents have made a point to be in town, and my mom and the kids make my cake together. The year before that, dd make me a cake with just a little bit of help from me.

Dh is starting to learn that just because HE doesn't want a cake/fanfare, doesn't mean I don't. His mom has been good at pestering him. :D

[Amira]

My birthday is a week before my son's, and knowing I'm making his cake the next week is enough for me. I really wouldn't want any dessert my husband might make. His tastes are a bit too 1970s for me.

 

I have been know to make myself a pie. Chocolate silk or berry pie is much better than any cake.

[Guest mrsjamiesouth]

Usually my mother buys me one.

[Joker]

My dh and the girls make mine - unless my mom is visiting. She's visited for about half of my birthdays because she knows I love her German chocolate cake.:tongue_smilie:

[lovetobehome]

I make one. Or, sometimes we do something else....strawberries with ice cream. My daughter is allergic to eggs, so I have a no-egg recipe we use for all cakes in my family.

My hubby has recently started making me a birthday dinner, which I enjoy very much! I think it shows the kids he cares. Heck, it shows ME he cares! I love it. It is the one meal each year that he makes. :-)

[kat19]

I never have a cake but it's alright.

I usually ask for cheesecake but hardly ever get that either.

[Binalina]

Nope. I make wedding cakes on the side so that is the last thing I want to do. I'm easy though - Hubby brings me home a Carvel Ice Cream cake and I am a happy camper. We might be switching to Coldstone Creamery this year though :drool: It's so cute - every year he acts like it's a big surprise and one of the kids slips about the birthday cake and everyone says "SHHHHHHHHH!!!!" as if I don't know - and I pretend I don't know what they are talking about :lol:

[Mrs Mungo]

Nobody has made me a birthday cake as an adult. I don't *hate* cake, but I don't really long for cake either. So, I didn't vote.

[Parrothead]

I don't get birthday cake. I get birthday pie!

 

With 7 days we have dd's birthday, our wedding anniversary and my birthday. We are caked out. So I get

[Susan in KY]

His tastes are a bit too 1970s for me.

 

This has me :smilielol5:. It must be really late! I am thinking (alternately), "1970's? Isn't that a bit stale?" and "1970? How do cakes today differ from the 70's?" Totally baffled over here in KY.... :001_smile:

[Britomart]

I make my own. But that's because I know exactly what I want, and it involves coffee ice cream, caramel, crunched-up Heath bars and a graham cracker crust, in exactly the proportions that I like best.

 

But my mom usually buys me the ingredients. :D

[mrsrevmeg]

My dh and the girls make mine - unless my mom is visiting. She's visited for about half of my birthdays because she knows I love her German chocolate cake.:tongue_smilie:

 

This made me smile because I am working on a German Chocolate for my husband's birthday. :)

[myfunnybunch]

I voted my husband, but technically I could have answered my dh, my kids, and I don't get birthday cake. They usually work together to make me a birthday pie.

 

:)

 

Cat

[Mom in High Heels]

Dh has always made me a birthday cake. Now that Indy is older, they work together (Indy loves to bake). My favorite cake is strawberry and one year dh decided to mix it up and put dark chocolate icing on it. I was skeptical at first, but holy cow is it good! It's now my traditional birthday cake. Yummy!

[Melissa in Australia]

other

we don't celebrate birthdays

[Lisa in Jax]

DD has made me one a few times, and DH has made and/or bought them in the past, but I often make my own, b/c I love to bake.

 

A couple of years ago I was dieting and didn't want to have a whole cake in the house, so I told dh I didn't want a cake for my birthday. DH surprised me with a single slice of my favorite kind of cake from a local bakery. It really touched me b/c he knows me so well -- I *did* want cake on my birthday, but I didn't want to be tempted to eat a whole cake, so I planned to skip it altogether. His solution -- a single slice of cake -- was perfect.

 

He's a good guy. :)

[Pretty in Pink]

The poll doesn't allow multiple choices. Some years my dh purchases a cake from the bakery, and some years he bakes one himself for me.

[Melinda in VT]

Other.

 

Dh's birthday is three days before mine, and since neither of us wants to eat two cakes in three days, we usually have one cake sometime in that three-day period.

 

I usually make the cake, but since DH cooks dinner almost every night of the week, I don't mind.

 

He's much better at giving presents than I am, so I don't feel neglected on my birthday.

[abbeyej]

It just doesn't matter to me. Some years I've made it. Some years we've bought a cake. I know it's very important to some people -- but I could have ticked any number of spots on your poll.

[Annie]

I usually make my own. I like hot milk cake with a toffee type topping, and it takes a little more work than many cakes. My husband's a good sport, but I'm pretty sure the first few attempts wouldn't be pretty. This year, we traveled to visit family a few days after my birthday, so I waited, and my mama made my cake. ;)

[angela in ohio]

I voted the last option, but really it's not because I don't like cake (yum,) but because we don't really celebrate birthdays much.

[angela in ohio]

I usually make my own. I like hot milk cake with a toffee type topping, and it takes a little more work than many cakes.

 

And now we will need that recipe, ma'am (board policy, you know.) :D

[Heatherwith4]

I'll be 28 on Saturday, and my mom still makes mine. :) Actually, she makes whatever dessert I request. Birthday cake is a bit too sweet to have around Halloween, so sometimes I ask for a fruit-based dessert.

[~Tara~]

Hubs brings me ice cream cake pretty much every year. If ever that wasn't an option, the kids made one.

[Miss Marple]

The poll doesn't allow multiple choices. Some years my dh purchases a cake from the bakery, and some years he bakes one himself for me.

 

I usually make it, but sometimes my sister will make it. We don't bother with store bought because we have a few favorite homemade types.

[Annie]

And now we will need that recipe, ma'am (board policy, you know.) :D

 

I wouldn't want to break with board policy. I have a wee one sleeping on my lap right now, but I'll come back to post it later.

[Mom22ns]

I don't think I usually have cake on my birthday - all those calories! If I want one though, I would make it. Our division of labor says I do the cooking. Dd is old enough to make it now. She loves to bake, but cake isn't a family favorite, so I'll have to wait and see what she does on my next birthday. :001_smile:

[Dawn in OH]

My husband has made me a cake a few times. I often make it myself so I have can have exactly what I want.

[Cinder]

I didn't vote because it varies year-to-year. Sometimes I make me a cake, sometimes the kids do it. Last year I wasn't up to it and no one else thought about it so dh went to the store and bought a lemon pudding cake. I love lemon cake!

 

Cinder

[LuvToRead]

DH always take me out for my birthday, so I order a dessert. Something I would never make for myself. My mom still makes a cake for my sister and me.

[jeri]

I don't want a boxex cake! I don;'t want an over-sugary grocery cake. I don't want a bakery cake. Instead, I pull out a great recipe from Best Recipes or Marcel Dusaliers (sp?) restaurant and I make exactly what I want. It is *my* birthday!

 

Jeri

[Kate in Arabia]

Another "other" here, because we don't really celebrate birthdays. But my mom makes my favorite cake every year when we visit home, if that counts :)

[KidsHappen]

I don't really like cake but my kids usually make me one anyhow. :001_smile:

[holdoll]

I wish there was an "other" choice. After all these years, dh made me a birthday cake last Dec. He asked me what my favorite cake was, found one on the internet from Bobby Flay and proceeded to make a red velvet cake with cream cheese frosting from scratch. It was not a complete success, but to me it was the best cake I've ever eaten. It put a smile on my face to find tiny red cake batter dried on my kitchen cabinets too! :001_smile:

[cjzimmer1]

My oldest daughter has a birthday 5 days before mine so when I buy hers from the bakery, i just make sure to get a big one and then I hoard the leftovers so I usually will have a piece left for my birthday. I really like cake but I have no desire for 2 cakes that close together.

[lionfamily1999]

I don't really care about having a cake, but everyone else gets upset if I don't have one................... so I make it myself :p

[mom31257]

There needs to be an other choice, because we don't always do cake. Sometimes I want my favorite pie, or sometimes they bake me something, or sometimes we go out.

 

I never make my own, though.

[eternalknot]

My older sister was a baking nut, and she sort of started a childhood tradition that had us each make our own birthday cake. It was the highlight of the day, you and mom alone in the kitchen baking and decorating together ... warm fuzzies, and all of that ... then sharing the final product with the family, after dinner.

 

I'm not a big birthday-celebrating person, and I don't much care for cake. I'm good with a nice dinner out, which my family has always gathered together for and we pick a random dessert off of the menu. Then I had kids. Who like to bake. So now they've continued our childhood tradition of preparing their own birthday cakes every year and since they'll take any excuse to get in the kitchen with grandma ... and to eat cake, which they both love LOL ... they've taken over my birthday, and make a cake for me. It's always a square cake divided into half, with each side uniquely decorated by one kid. They choose their favorite icing and cake mix, and I eat the obligatory piece. If I had to choose, though, I'd like the German Chocolate icing. I've never gotten it :)

[Punchie]

DH is the main baker in our house (from scratch, including frosting). To the extent that DD4 assumes that EVERYONE'S daddy makes cakes.

[secular_mom]

I usually make all our cakes/pies (DH prefers strawberry pie on his b-day). I enjoy decorating cakes, so it doesn't bother me at all, and on my birthday I get to choose chocolate cake and I get to choose the shape. On my birthday I'm not trying to please anyone else, it's MY cake and I'm decorating it the way *I* want to- no pressure. It's much more relaxing.

[Daisy]

I make it, but really I'm just doing it for the kids anyway. I don't even like cake all that much. :D And no, I'd never want my husband to bring home a nasty store-bought cake. Blech.

[Melora in NC]

I used to make my own, but dh has baked the cake for the last couple years (from a mix, which is fine with me!) and the kids frost it.

[AHASRADA]

My wonderful children (particularly my aspiring chef ds13) always make my cake, sometimes with help from dh, or my mom if we are at her house.

 

My birthday was a couple of weeks ago, and ds made me his own original creation, layered in a souffle pan:

 

chocolate mousse

cherry pie filling

chocolate ganache

brownies

cheesecake

pie crust

 

Yummmm!

 

Oh yes, and rather than buy a couple of number candles, he actually put the correct # of individual candles all over the top of the cake. :glare: Needless to say, I needed some help blowing them out! :tongue_smilie:

[Dawn in OH]

 

chocolate mousse

cherry pie filling

chocolate ganache

brownies

cheesecake

pie crust

 

Yummmm!

 

 

 

Those are all my favorites. I would LOVE that birthday cake. You are a lucky woman.

[AngieW in Texas]

My kids really enjoy making their own cakes and decorating them too. Every year I ask them what they want to do for a cake. I will buy one, make one for them, or buy what they need to make one themselves. They nearly always choose to make it themselves. They prefer to use a cake mix and do some creative frosting. My kids nearly always do this from about their 9th birthdays on up.

[Ellie]

Neither Mr. Ellie nor I have had birthday cakes in years, except for special birthdays ending with zeros. :D In that case, I do one for him, he does one for me.

 

We'r grown-ups. We figure we don't need cake.