Do you eat cake on your birthday? What kind do you usually get? Have you ever had themed birthday cakes?
I almost always eat cake on my birthday. When I was younger I usually had yellow birthday cakes, but now I tend to go for red velvet with cream cheese frosting. As for themed cakes, I have a few pictures of cakes I had as a kid, and they were Minnie Mouse, ballerina, and Pokémon themed. Here are the pictures:
I don't know how old I was for the Minnie cake, but I loved Mickey and Minnie Mouse as a kid. I couldn't have been older than five though. For the ballerina cake, it looks like the cake has six candles on it, so I assume I was six. I believe this was during the time that I was taking some ballet classes. And for the Pokémon cake, I can tell I was seven by the "7" candle. I was obsessed with Pokémon at that age. I loved watching the show and collecting the cards. As an adult, I just get a cake with some flowers on it or something~
i don't eat cake anymore on my birthday, since i think they're too sweet for me, however i can recall some of the themed cakes i got as a kid. from the top of my head, winnie the pooh, strawberry shortcake, clifford, and bubbles (powerpuff girls).
Despite not celebrating super hard anymore for birthdays, I usually still have birthday cake. The flavor I'm not too picky about, however, it's the thought that counts!
No.
I mean, we usually do birthdays by the month rather than day because of busy-ness.
As for my birthday, sometimes I'll pick up a cake at the store. Usually cheese cake (spouse will help me eat it).. or I'll pick up one of those packages that have just a couple pieces of cake. Sometimes I just have cookies, since cookies are my favorite. A few times I had no sweets at home, but ordered a dessert at a restaurant instead. (We eat out for my birthday usually). It's lax, nothing intense or super planned.
I definitely think that having cake is synonymous with a birthday, but any dessert variation would do. I personally like a chocolate silk pie, or strawberry cheesecake as a nice birthday treat.
i haven’t had cake on my birthday in years TT i have fruit tarts instead!
my mom bought me some for my birthday when i was 12, and i liked those so much that my family now always gets me fruit or fruit tarts on my birthday… which is great because i’m not sure i even like cake! i am on the train that any dessert goes ^^
I'm not really interested in having a cake on my birthday anymore. My birthday "celebrations" are always just with me and my parents, and the 3 of us can never finish a cake (not even a small one), so getting one always feels like a waste. I still get a sweet treat on my birthday!! I just get cupcakes or a slice of cheesecake or some other small dessert that sounds good that the 3 of us can actually finish or that I can just enjoy on my own.
I had a birthday cake almost every year growing up, though! I usually always just got a vanilla sheet cake since I knew everyone eating it would enjoy it, but I had a milk and cookies cake one year that was really yum! I also had an ice cream cake for my 20th; it tasted good, but it took forever to thaw and was hard to eat.
I had a Barbie: Fairytopia-themed cake one year, and I think a Disney princess cake another year? I'm not 100% sure about the latter, but I know I definitely had a Fairytopia cake!
I still have birthday cake on my bday, I don't really do themed birthdays or themed birthday cakes anymore though, that was only something I did when I was really young.
I’ve never had themed birthday cakes before, when I was younger my mom only got us fruit cake from this bakery in Chinatown for our birthdays. I still have cake on my birthday, nothing fancy. I usually just get whatever I see at the grocery store or maybe some ice cream cake a couple days before. I have been liking cold stones a cheesecake named desire cake though, so some years I might get that. this year I may try and be fancy and find a Korean bakery for my birthday cake. we’ll see.
It’s not a birthday without caaaake, because I am now gluten free I just get one of the small gluten free chocolate cakes on my birthday and usually eat it within a few days
I absolutely love vanilla. Due to some health issues I can't eat most processed/junk food, and I tend to avoid sugar most of the time, but every year for my birthday I make myself a vanilla cake with vanilla icing and I eat 80% of it myself over the course of a week or so. I <3 cake.
Neither of my parents is cooking-savvy at all, but as a kid my mom did get a sheet cake with one of those edible printed paper images from the animated PBS adaptation of Redwall, my obsession at the time. (These guys)
Other than that, I actually don't think I've had another themed cake! I had a lot of themed parties because I was a super-nerd growing up and I loved things like Lord of the Rings and Star Wars, but the cake was always just cake.
My parents get me yellow or vanilla cake as it’s my favorite :9 One year, I decided I wanted a sylveon themed cake, so my mom made the cake and helped me decorate it to say “fairy happy birthday” with some sylveon bows. My mom also made a duck-shaped cake for my 4th birthday (which was bird themed). And for my 7th birthday I picked out a custom cake with a pink purse and flowers and I think the frosting was purple and it had to have 3 green exclamation points.
Oh! And one year my mom and I decorated pet-themed cupcakes with jellybeans, goldfish grahams, and licorice. Each one was super unique!
.
