Would you eat the cake?

ChristyML

My husband's family has a tradition of having only one cake for their children's first birthday parties. They let the baby put their hands in it and eat it, and then they cut it up and serve the same cake to the guests (they only have cousins and aunts and uncles there). I am pretty sure they cut out the part that the baby stuck their hands in.

Assuming that they do cut out the part the baby stuck their hands in, would you still eat the cake?

I personally think it's gross, and have been telling my husband that I will be making a small cake for DS and then a regular sized one for guests at DS's first birthday party. He gets a little sad about that, but I'm not going to serve guests food that a baby has possibly drooled on or touched.

nah82

Ew, no, I don't think I would want to eat that.  You could cut the first piece out (a good corner piece with lots of icing?) to serve the birthday boy and then cut the rest up for the guests to honor the "one cake" idea.

Arnegard

No way.

1026pumpkin

namcgee:

Ew, no, I don't think I would want to eat that.  You could cut the first piece out (a good corner piece with lots of icing?) to serve the birthday boy and then cut the rest up for the guests to honor the "one cake" idea.

This.  I would also show DH how cute smash cakes can be...I totally think they are the way to go. 

belladonna11307

Yeah...no.  Babies are cute but messy and drooly and smashy with cake.  I don't like eating after my own daughter much less someone else's.  I did cupcakes for DD's first and my mom said she always did one cake, but gave baby a slice like everyone else.  Actually the birthday person gets the first slice traditionally in my family.

Irishsapphire

We put a mini cupcake in front of my daughter and blew out the candle.  She still made a mess even with the mini cupcake.  And everyone else got mini cupcakes for themselves.  

I like your idea of doing a smaller cake for your son and a regular cake for your guests.   

karen_loy

If I was served with it I'd probably accept it to not seem grossed out, had a minuscoulus bite and then "forget" it somewhere

Anyhow, yes, it's pretty gross. Make LO his own smash cake or cupcake and have a separate cake for everyone else 

chocolatechip06

no way-the smash cake is definitely the way to go.

salt78

Ew no way. DD got her own cake.

blu-eyedwife

namcgee:

Ew, no, I don't think I would want to eat that.  You could cut the first piece out (a good corner piece with lots of icing?) to serve the birthday boy and then cut the rest up for the guests to honor the "one cake" idea.

 

This is a good alternative.  Or something my cousins do - they cut the middle of the cake out - like a circle of it.  And the birthday kid gets that.  Everyone else gets a slice cut from the remaining outside.

ryry1977

Ummm...never heard of anyone doing that.  I would prefer if anyone is going to let the kid play in it that they get one just for the kid...seperate.  I think making a second cake is so cute!  I wouldn't want to eat the cake the kid played in.  Sometimes they really go to town!

allardr

I would eat it, but I"m not a germ-a-phobe at all. My LO gives me slobery kisses all the time anyway. Plus it's just family. 

Having said that we're definitely doing a smash cake/cupcake. 

Minipenguin

Ew.

juliane2004

No. We do a small smash cake for the baby, then another cake for the rest.

notkateanymore

No way, that's one of the grossest things I've ever heard. Ugh.

KellyD01

We sort of did this for the twins 1st b-day... But I purposely made a 10" cake for 7 people (2 of whom were 1, and 1 was 3) There was PLENTY of cake that wasn't touched... and the "leftovers" went into the trash. For their party they each had their own cake... Eating something the kids had drooled on wouldn't have phased DH, MIL or I since everything we touched back them had drool on it... I doubt FIL cared either way... but I never would have allowed it for more than that chunk of family. They also had to be forced to touch it so that helped w/ the ick factor... by the weekend however they were ready and positively DEMOLISHED their smash cakes.