To ask when 'cake smashes' became a thing?

[SalemSaberhagen]

Loads of them popping up on Facebook at the moment, and I just don't get them. What's the point? When did it become a popular thing to do on a child's first birthday?

Yes it is less vulgar mrs...it's completely different?

Where did I say it was a 'statement of food waste' lilac? I'm saying hiring a photographer to take photographs of your child destroying food doesn't sit right with me.

Maybe save your ire for the supermarkets who throw out thousands of pounds worth of perfectly good food every day, then come back and bang on about food banks.

This a thousand times. And to the poster who questioned what people in third world countries would make of this trend, I lived and volunteered in Africa and I can tell you that the amazing people I met wouldn't be offended in the slightest by the sight of a baby playing with a cake on its birthday - but the millions of pounds of food wastage committed by the supermarkets? They would be horrified.

Know your enemy. It certainly isn't a baby scoffing, and playing with a cake on one day of the year or its mum. How ignorant to think so.

Does everything have to have a benefit now?

Are not allowed to do anything for fun anymore?

Here's an idea OP - if you don't like it, don't do it yourself.

Yeah, I won't be doing it lilac. Not what my initial post was discussing, but thanks for your snide comment 👍🏼

Cake smashes are pretty passé now I think. Theyve been around for at least eight years as the first time I ever saw a cake smash picture was at a studio where DD had a baby portrait done.

I find it hard to get worked up about the waste of a single cake, especially considering how much perfectly edable food the average supermarket junks daily. What I can't stand are wreck the dress pictures, how can people go rolling around in mud or what ever in their hugely expensive wedding dresses. I know they're not going to wear them again, but doing that to a beautifully made dress just makes me cringe.

Well, it wasn't snide, it was a suggestion, but take what you will from it.

Unless you are buying a cake for a food bank every single week and then on the week it is the childs birthday then you don't donate the cake and instead give it to a baby to smash then I don't see how they are related.

Shits and giggle is vulgar. Oh puhleeeease. In any case, taking away the waste aspect, it's just another ridiculous thing that people are trying to make something. It is literally baking a cake just to let a kid smash it, so a photo can be taken and showed off. That's all it is. Ridiculous really.

Im vulgar & a twat then.

We loved it & had a great day at the studio.

We thought about holding a party at home but this beats having a load of snotty nose kids in my house treading jelly in my carpet & playing party games.

Those bastards, taking photos of their child having fun with their birthday cake.

The world is going to hell in a handcart, it really is.

I did a cake smash for dd. She had a shoot before and after as well as the smash and i love them. You can see so much of her personality and i will treasure them

It's called a cake smash, but it's not actually about forcing a poor, impressionable baby to smash a cake to smithereens so it is inedible, whilst yelling "let them eat cake". It has evolved from the fact that when you make a cake for someone on their birthday, you place it front of them to enjoy. Place a cake in front of a one-year-old and they'll get stuck in. Pretty sure most of it will get eaten. (It would with my one-year-old, who did not have an official "cake smash", but was allowed to have at his cake. Don't worry, we tidied up afterwards.)
It's been happening at kitchen tables around the world for decades. Now people do a photo shoot of it. Shocking.

This thread has made me want to do it even more. Thanks OP love from a vulgar twat xox

It is like the wedding dress trashing thing

A genuine suggestion lilac?

Fedora you say that like I care whether you do it or not.

Fedora you say that like I care whether you do it or not.

You obviously care about people doing it or you wouldn't have made a thread about it

My point exactly

I don't mind them, I think there are special recipes online for making specific ones that aren't actually cake either either way I probably waste way more food on a daily basis "feeding" my baby.

I saw one a really loved on facebook last year, somebody had made a brain cake, with fake jammy blood... little boy dressed as a zombie. I thought it looked fantastic, and definitely something I'd pop up on my wall.

differen't tastes and all that. wouldn't say it's twattish or grotesque though.

I haven't had one by the way, instead we had a real cake that everyone ate.. she poked it with her finger though.. very lacking in the smash department!

It's great, you can pick out a costume and they make a cake with fits your chosen theme, the baby loves it! They do a shoot in the clothes you want first, so I smart 1st birthday one, then the cake smash and then a mini bath one, where they clean up in a chosen mini bath, it's so nice to have in their bathroom! Just lovely all around

I realised I just said a baby eating and pulling apart a blood oozing brain cake dressed like a zombie wasn't grotesque... but it really wasn't haha. It was flipping cute haha

Walshie, that's a great idea to put one of them in the little bath up in the bathroom! Stealing that

Doesn't this happen at every meal if you're doing BLW?! I hadn't heard about this, but I made a cake and gave some to my DS- and bang! Cake smash. Do you have to do stage it?!