Birthday cake question...

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Quick straw poll - if you asked your DH to go and buy a birthday cake for your adult daughter, what would you expect him to come home with?

A - an actual Birthday cake

B - a caterpillar cake

C - a chocolate gateau

D - some other random cake

The restaurant is hardly going to be happy with being asked to bring out a surprise titchy coffee and walnut cake with no candles on it are they?
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If my adult dd wanted a birthday cake and I didn't have time to make one, I'd go for the chocolate gateau and then put candles and a little Happy Birthday sign on it.

Coffee and walnut cakes are also delicious but one would only seem ready to be turned into a birthday cake if it had icing on the top as well as in the middle.

I think what he’s done is totally fine, unless it needs to feed more than 4 people.

The restaurant really won’t care (speaking as a former waitress who has done many a birthday cake in my time!)

No, there's 4 of us, plus tomorrow a bunch of friends she's invited over to her place.

The offspring is an adult whose 18th & 21st birthdays were both ruined for assorted reasons.

I've not been harsh with DH, I just said 'Oh, how lovely' and left it at that.

Depends on how many people I was serving too, for three people a deluxe/taste the difference/finest supermarket cake fits the bill, for more portions I'd opt for something from the birthday cake selection but most likely chocolate as I find the vanilla ones dry and bland and dislike fondant icing

If I had a specific cake in mind then I would give very, very specific instructions to DH. If I wanted Colin then I would tell DH to go to M&S and get a Colin. Then he would know not to go to Aldi and get a Cuthbert or a vanilla sponge.

If the birthday was in a restaurant I would probably order a birthday cake from there or, more usually, let the birthday person order their favourite dessert and have the kitchen bling the plate up and add a candle.

I'd say it depends on the number of servings you want. You say he bought a 4-person coffee and walnut cake. Well, we often have things like this for birthdays, partly for preference, but also because the iced cakes wishing "Happy Birthday" are mostly aimed at parties or large family groups and are far too big for us.

She doesn't know yet. I'm sure she'll be fine about it, it's me that's cheesed off. I was literally outside a branch of Waitrose - I'm sure their birthday cakes are vastly superior to other supermarkets.😂

Funny thing is, DD can practically inhale chocolate cake and DH knows that, so I really don't know why he didn't get one.

Well, if you communicated your thoughts to him the way you've communicated on this thread (ie half-heartedly), I think you're very much in the wrong for eye-rolling/laughing at him!

I'm with your husband. Any of these would be fine for me. A birthday cake is any cake that you can stick candles in and eat on a birthday, which is pretty much any full size cake.

I think most adults would prefer coffee and walnut to anything else on the list, except chocolate maybe.

If you want something specific, specify.

If I had a specific cake in mind then I would give very, very specific instructions to DH

I thought the words 'Birthday Cake' were specific enough. Lesson learned. 😂

Oh and in case anyone is wondering why I hadn't already made / bought a cake / sorted it with the restaurant is that her DP was supposed too have done it and forgot. It suddenly dawned on me this morning that he has a habit of forgetting things, so I texted DH to check with him as he was seeing him this morning anyway.

A or B - we love a Colin in this house whatever age the birthday is for.

It is a light-hearted thread - I can go into War and Peace mode if you like.... ?

Any of those. They all are fine