To have made ds a homemade birthday cake?

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Its chocolate with chocolate butter cream icing, chocolate fingers round the edge and a smartie number 2 on the top.
Everyone else I know seems to purchase elaborate creations for thier lo birthdays. I'm too scared to post a picture anywhere in case I win bad mum of the year award. Pretty sure it will taste lovely.
Will ds be scared for life at not having a three tier fireman ssm cake?

My mum is incredibly artistic and we used to have the most amazing cakes when we were kids. After birthday parties she would get asked why children were saying they ate mud and grass - desiccated coconut tinted green and sprinkled on melted chocolate, surrounding a caje decirated to look like a gingerbread house.

I, of course, envied my friends' traditionally-iced shop-bought cakes. One year I told my mum. I still remember my delight at my 9th birthday cake: white, with pale blue swags, multicoloured pastel flowers, and my name piped on in swirly writing. And when I look at the photo as an adult, there I am, happily grinning over a lop-sided, home-made cake.

As mum many years later confessed: she could sculpt, she could paint, but she could not pipe and she could not do symmetry.

I did not care. I was delighted.

Go for it.

I always make dd's cake! They tend to taste better than they look but I still proclaim myself a domestic goddess!

Many comments seem to be around the comparison of home made or shop bought...but I get the impression you were comparing home made to a "professional" home baker fancy cake? I am one of those bakers I have to confess, the reason I even got into this business was by making my childrens birthday cakes (and they were horrendous but highly complimented at the time!) I always encourage my customers who say "if like to do it myself but..." That they should try and I offer help...I'm only on the other end of a pm on Facebook after all! It's shocking, what some people pay (just recently, a £100 3 tier for a 1st birthday...) but it's their choice if that's what they want. What's worse is people was ting a 3 tier fancy cake, for a supermarket price!! Go ahead with home made - it's much better IMO

Stealthsquiggle - I'm in Essex if that helps you. The "paying someone else to make the cake for you" thing is sickeningly rife here.

justgirl - interesting. Good that you can make a living (when you get past the supermarket price expectations). There are a few people who advertise round here (West Mids) but I always wonder if they get any business. My DC are at an independent school, so you would think their friends' parents are better off than the local average, and yet I have only ever seen one made to order cake in lots of years of parties.