To want to get a cake made??

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For my son's 2nd birthday - I could make one And it would be nice/good but not wow - I kind of want wow! Or am I just being silly? Just trying to work out if the money is worth less stress!

I had one made for my little boy's first birthday. £40 for an amazing 'Scout the dog' cake I couldn't even have begun to make myself. And it was gluten free for MIL and tasted lush I say go for it!

Depends who it's for - if for family / adults then yes, go for it. If it's for 2 year olds then buy one from a supermarket for a tenner!

Live abroad so cake would be expensive (£100 +) and supermarket cake all tastes like"boxed cake" and looking at £20 for a smallish plain one :( I know I should/could make it but just want it to be perfect!

I have absolutely no artistic talent and have still managed to make birthday cakes that look like a Dalek, the Millenium Falcon and a dinosaur amongst others.

Seriously you can do it - you know you want too

Yanbu to want to have one made but that is a lot to spend for a 2 year olds birthday. I'm shit at baking so I'm going to make a sweet cake for dd's birthday

What sort of cake do you want? It isn't that difficult (in my eyes anyway) to make an easy but stunning one. You tube has a lot of instructional videos, which is how I started. Have a look at my profile, I have cakes on there and I am mostly self taught.

I made a great duckpond cake for dgs 2nd birthday.It was very easy with white icing and angelica grass/reeds,a blue icing pond and toy ducks swimming on it. He called it his 'Zachary Quack' cake.

A Mickey Mouse cake! I think I will give it a go - made a duck last year! Thanks for the input! :)

Where on earth does cake cost £20-100?! Oh my and holy craps!

God I would and have! £45 for a tractor cake far better looking moister and tastier than I could manage and best of all I don't have to faff about making it. I hate making cakes. I hate the mess. I hate the mediocre result. I hate the stress. I love someone else taking all that hassle away.

I felt like you and bought a cake for DD1's 3rd birthday. Then we had a great nanny who decorated brilliant cakes. I made the cake and she decorated it, we were a good team. When she left the girls still wanted home made cakes so I had to learn to do it and got better over the years. I've made a swimming pool, a bowling alley, a bed and I forget what else.They are still convinced that birthday cakes have to be homemade. It can be nice for a small child to know that an adult who loves them made their cake (and apparently nice for adults too, mine are now grown up).

Yanbu. But I'm a fan of homemade cakes. For various reason's dd's birthday cakes have been shop bought for her 4 years. I've cried each time (sad I know as she doesn't realise). I managed to make ds one for his second birthday and was utterly thrilled I had done it - none too complicated. Sponge cake, green buttercream and ready coloured icing to make a 'timmy' timmy time sheep.

I'd go for making homemade every time if I could as it's a labour of love for me. My mum did it for us and set the bar high!

I love making DD's birthday cakes. I make my own too, and one for DH if I get time. If I was better at it I'd love to make them to sell, then I'd get to make birthday cakes all year round!

But no, YANBU.

If you want to and you can afford it then have it. It's not at all unreasonable.

Cake can be surprisingly expensive in other countries, Kermit. I recall when we were in Spain that the done thing was to take cake as a guest gift if you were going to a dinner party - cake was so costly and difficult and wine was pennies. (Pre-Euro days though.)

That seems so odd, cozie . I had no idea.

Oh YANBU, OP. If you can afford it and it is what you want to do then do it.

I can't wait to make mad cakes for my dc! But then, I am quite fond of faffing about in the kitchen with icing and whatnot. And if you have other DC who are old enough to help it is a nice way to involve them too.

YANBU, it's entirely up to you!