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Who had a 1st bday smash cake?
I am starting to think about Logan's birthday. I have made several of my boy's cakes and was thinking of making this one. He likes Mickey Mouse, but I am kind of lost on smash cake ideas.
Who used a smash cake? Were you glad?
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Re: Who had a 1st bday smash cake?
DD -- 5YO
DS -- 3YO
We gave her a little piece of brownie on her actual bday and she wasn't too impressed (it was milk/soy free)
For her party we did cupcakes, but since Maddie still couldn't have milk, we just mixed cut up bananas, strawberries and avacados and put it in a cupcake cup and stuck a candle in that. She had fun playing in it and smearing it everywhere. Those are some of her favorite foods and she really liked it. I don't know that she would have known what to think of cake at that time.
I got mine for free from Shop Rite with the purchase of Aaron's cake (for the adults). If you remember, he was FREAKED by the icing and wouldn't touch it. Hated it. Poor kid.
I wouldn't pay for one... but if he likes it, it's a great photo op.
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I baked Ada's cakes - one little one for her and one for the guests. I don't know why, but it was incredibly important to me to do it.
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^ Brought tears to my eyes. I am all sorts of emotional. Thinking I want to bake her cake now instead of buying one. I don't know whether to thank you for posting that or not
DD#1 - January 2008
DD#2 - September 2010
I had Sabrina's One Year photos taken by a pro who came to our house on the 18th- 11 days before Sabrina turned one. She took photos for an hour- I was able to change her several times if I wanted to. At the last clothes change, we did the shots in front of a bright backdrop with a $4 cake from the local grocery store. The pics turned out AMAZING. So cute, so bright, so perfect. I wasn't sure I was going to do it but I'm so glad I did because I'm not what kind of pics I'll get at her big party on Saturday.
Also, DH and I celebrated Sabrina's party last night with her- as yesterday she was One. We got her another $4 cake, I asked that they put her name on it and they did. I brought the cake out with a lit candle and everything. I got some cute pics- some are in my blog (click on siggy pic). So I guess that's a smash cake, too??
At her party on Saturday, there will be a huge sheet cake and we'll just give her the first piece. I'm sure she'll go nuts with it like she did the "smash cake".
sorry for the novella. Yes, I did a smash cake- twice! TOTALLY GLAD.
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DH and i both took the day off on the twin's 1st bday and got them smash cakes from the grocery store - they give free little cakes on 1st birthdays.... we took them to Picture people and did a photo session of them eating their first cake. It was fun (even though Gray screamed through most of it- but continued to keep eating his cake!) They also had small smash cakes at their birthday party - that i got free from another grocery store, and asked to be only done with white icing- and i decorated them myself to fit the theme (Thing 1 Thing 2 Seuss)
Griffin's first cake was one i made and he had it at his party - a small smash cake in the farm theme of his party. Best pictures.
It was really important to me to bake Jack's cake too, but I was so busy setting up everything else that I ran out of time at the last minute. My neighbor offered to bake the large cupcake in her pan and I decorated it to match the cupcakes I had already made. He loved it, I am so glad we did it that way.