Another 1st B-day Question - smash cake

loisloan1118

Are most of you going to make/buy an additional cake for the smash cake or just give LO a piece of his or her b-day cake?  

I'm planning on a Elmo cake & going with all vanilla.  I remember my ex SIL made a separate smash cake for my nephew's 1st and left out an ingredient he couldn't have (eggs maybe?)  It was a small mound of cake w/ frosting on it.  I'm not going to ask her about it (not on good terms).  Her b-day is at the end of August and I'm not a baker (even if it wasn't hot outside!) so I probably wouldn't attempt to make something separate.  I'm just curious what everyone else is doing.  

Thanks!  

memali26

I love baking and decorating cakes, so for DD1's birthday, I made a few dozen cupcakes and she got her own to smash into. For DD2's birthday, I think I'm making a vanilla sheet cake, but will probably do a few cupcakes on the side in chocolate and let her smash into one of those. Most of our family prefers vanilla cake, but there's just something about a chocolate cake covered baby I can't resist

Soon2BMrsN

We had cupcakes for everyone at DS1's first birthday party, so that's what he ate.  We will most likely do the same for DS2's party.  I don't really see the point of a huge smash cake personally.

eric and jess

Not sure what to do... he just kind of crumbled the little bit of his dad's birthday cake we gave him last week.  Maybe I'll do a cupcake for him like the others said.  I thought maybe I'd do a sheet cake and cut out two circles and stack them, but that sounds like a lot of work... hm...

twohniyt

I'm making Kendall's smash cake and go back and forth on if I want to make cupcakes for everyoen or just do a sheet cake from Costco.

indika236

I baked cupcakes and then made Penelope her own little smash cake in a mini loaf pan...I decorated it and it turned out super cute

I also made a special frosting for her cake made from marscapone, cream cheese, and honey- so she didn't go into too much of a sugar shock...But she still got a little crazy from the sugar  

blu-eyedwife

CurlingRocks:

I made the cake, so I just made a cupcake from the full-size cake's batter and baked them together.  The cupcake was done a little sooner than the big cake, so I took it out before the big cake finished baking.

This is what I'm doing

buskey2011

were we are buying the cake we get a free smash cake. I know publix gives you a free smash cake. on his actual birthday I am having smash a cup cake at home. the marscapone cheese and honey sounds awesome

babygrl5507

She'll get her own smash cake at her birthday party, and I'm thinking about doing a cake smash photoshoot with a local photog. I love the ones I see on www.heidihope.com!

BUT - I would never make it myself. I'll order it from somewhere (for the photoshoot) and I've heard that a lot of chain bakeries include a small smash cake with the purchase of a first birthday cake.

fairy_diva

Its family tradition to give our LOs a whole cake to smash   And i love it, its one time so why not?  I'm making the Disney Mickey Mouse head in chocolate cake which is LO's to smash and eat ( I figure daddy will help him eat it, lol)  Everyone else gets 3 different flavors of cupcakes.  I am making the cake and all 72 cupcakes.  Yes, 72, even for a 1st Birthday we have a huge family, lol.