What to do with birthday cake?

[Dinoswearunderpants]

I have my nearly three year olds birthday party this weekend. I ordered a 5" letterbox cake thinking it'll serve the 8 children coming. It's tiny!

I've bought some cupcakes but trying to decide do I just pop the cupcakes into a cupcake box and directly into the party bags or do I arrange the cupcakes around the small cake and do the whole candle thing with the lot.

It makes more sense for me to put the cupcakes in the bags directly but must admit I feel a bit embarrassed at how pitiful this bloody cake is.

Would you judge someone for a small cake or am I losing the plot?

Buy more cupcakes and do both - have them in bags and around the cake.

Keep the letterbox cake for family (yourselves)
Cupcakes for party bags
Go to Asda and buy a bigger cake for a tenner.
Personally I'd have foregone the cupcakes (and the letterbox one) and just bought a supermarket one for a young child's Birthday.

How big is your letterbox that you thought a 5” cake would feed 8 kids?!

No, it'll only feed 4 at most.

It's Toy Story theme so the letterbox cake is personalised. I've looked online and no where has a Toy Story one. I don't have time to do hunting around so these are my two options really.

I'm taking him to Orlando for his birthday so it's not like he won't be getting loads of treats.

I’ve been at a few kids parties where the kids have blown our candles on one cake then an entirely different one has been served/given in party bags. So I would keep the personalised one and do candles on it, but then have something different eg cupcakes or a cheap tray bake for party bags.

I don't think anyone else will care either way, as long as they get some cake!

I'm taking him to Orlando for his birthday so it's not like he won't be getting loads of treats.

seems a bit pointless but you do you. 🤷🏻‍♀️

I would buy one of the birthday cakes at lidls or Aldis for £4 and use that for the party bags.I bought one myself,and paid a few pounds on Ebay for a cake topper.It was a cocomelon one.Paid less then £8 for a cake to serve 16 and it looked brilliant.Or,put the cupcakes in and keep the cake 😊

In the nicest possible way he's 3. Just get a plain cake from the shop and chuck some toy story figures on top of it and he won't give a hoot.

Presumably there is plenty other food and sweets so the cake is a token for the candles, a little bite each and the cupcakes in party bags with other small treats. I usually include a bag of crisps/pom bears or similar (veg straws at that age probably) to bulk them up and avoid so much sweet stuff and plastic tat.

They are only three so a small amount of the 'real' cake is fine. They will be delighted with cupcakes toom there's only 8 of them! If you are concerned about it not looking impressive enough then I would make sure there's plenty of cupcakes (more then one per person) maybe a dozen and make/buy some toystory toppers that you stab into them or go mad with icing and cool sprinkles from Tesco's. Silver balls, flowers chocolate shards, maybe a couple of different colours of icing to match your toy story theme. You can get spray on ones which looks good or buy a white one and good colouring. They will love it whatever I'm sure.

But I've already doomed myself to personalised cakes for my two so I'm locked into it for the next decade or two.

Arrange all the cakes for a picture.

put all 3 candles on one cup cake , light candles, sing happy birthday

Remove candles cup cake for blowing out so spitty blowing out misses other cakes

put a cup cake in each in the party bags

use nice cake for family after party with a cup of tea

I'd buy or make a bigger round cake with plain icing and stick the small cake on top.