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To ask when 'cake smashes' became a thing?

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SalemSaberhagen · 11/02/2016 21:57

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?

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OTheHugeManatee · 12/02/2016 17:37

This thread is hilarious Grin

bibbitybobbityyhat · 12/02/2016 17:41

I agree, Manatee Grin.

bibbitybobbityyhat · 12/02/2016 17:42

I don't object to the waste of food, rather the inanity of it all. But, as we keep saying, each to their own.

PerryHatter · 12/02/2016 17:44

Who gives a shit? It's a bit of sugar, butter and flour. The cake is made with the intended purpose of being smashed up by a child. The cake hasn't been wasted unless the child refuses to go near it and it ends up in the bin I smashed

It's just a trend. You might not like the look of it but plenty of people do, hence the popularity. They've become more popular, I've noticed, within the last year or so.
The point is the child has a bit of fun and the parents get some pictures to enjoy. The child will be wearing a specific outfit, with a specific background with a specific cake. It's all set up, all posed, made to look pretty but fun. It's not a baby in a dirty baby grow with a flake cake.

I haven't ever had my child do one, but I don't see the problem with other children doing so. It's not 'grotesque'.

Sparklingbrook · 12/02/2016 17:47

I am just glad that I have teens.

If in future years I am presented with a picture of a cake smash grandchild I will at least have had some warning. Grin

Walshie123 · 12/02/2016 17:47

My son is 12 and he had a cake smash, it's not extremely new

OttiliaVonBCup · 12/02/2016 17:49

A cake smash with 12?

Want2bSupermum · 12/02/2016 17:50

I don't think you can blame the Americans for this one. Living here the only people doing a cake smash are Hispanic. I assume it comes from south of Texas.

Walshie123 · 12/02/2016 17:54

I meant when he was 1 Confused

limitedperiodonly · 12/02/2016 17:58

Shall we have a list of five things we like doing and then decide whether they are inane or not bibbitybobbityyhat? I'll go first:

  1. Lurking in Sainsbury's at reduced food time despite being capable of paying full price;
  2. Lying on the beach all day on holiday even when staying in cultural hotspots;
  3. Keeping stuffed toys from childhood and refusing to give them to other people's small children;
  4. Collecting every first edition of stamp issued by the Royal Mail even though I know they aren't valuable but because they are pretty and it's become a tradition to get them through the post with a special postmark;
  5. Getting extraordinarily upset because I missed one in 1997.

I do lots of other inane things, as do we all.

What is the harm in smashing a cake? It's not like beating a living being to death, is it?

Xmasbaby11 · 12/02/2016 17:59

I've only heard of it online - never heard of any in real life, none at all, and I know tons of people with small children.

I don't really like the idea of it but it's hard to get het up when there's no evidence of it around here!

OttiliaVonBCup · 12/02/2016 17:59

You were well ahead of the times then Walshie.

A trendsetter, even.

Baiiley1201 · 12/02/2016 18:02

what is not to like about the pictures!?

To ask when 'cake smashes' became a thing?
RubyChewsDay · 12/02/2016 18:05

If anyone is interested Confused

I paid £100 for the studio & photographer.

We got 40 photos on disc to keep,

20 before the cake came out & 20 after.

A framed large photograph and the cake.

I cant see the difference in waste, of adults that go out and spend money on a night out with nothing to show for it the next day apart from a hangover

Sparklingbrook · 12/02/2016 18:07

is that a cowboy theme? Confused Cow balloons?

Baiiley1201 · 12/02/2016 18:08

it's cute

Sparklingbrook · 12/02/2016 18:08

Oh

Pidapie · 12/02/2016 18:09

Lots of ladies in my babygroup did this, I think it's a bit strange (and waste of yummy cake).

OttiliaVonBCup · 12/02/2016 18:10

I like the balloons.

KimmySchmidtsSmile · 12/02/2016 18:13

Ooh, this thread ironically became a bit of a Cake fight, didn't it?
And there I was, thinking my self-proclamation of being a twat had relieved any tension. Somne of you lot would've hated the end of Nanny Macphee. Spoiler: they play cricket with the cake which I would have happily licked off Colin Firth

I want to see the zombie baby.
I also want to start a thread looking for Limited's 1997 stamp as that is irking me from afar Grin tis why the only thing we collect is...wait for it...pressed souvenir coins. Which I freely admit is a waste of pound coins and tuppences but it is a collection that a completist like me cannot screw up.

As for Cake not being 'waisted' my tummy says otherwise and my waist thinks Cake is vvu.

Baiiley1201 · 12/02/2016 18:16

I wouldnt pick a zombie one, none look as good as the others, but here's 1

To ask when 'cake smashes' became a thing?
Sparklingbrook · 12/02/2016 18:18

Depends if your one year old is really into cowboys or zombies presumably.

Beth2511 · 12/02/2016 18:33

Couple of my favourites from the one my dd did... Just love that i can read her personaility from it so well

To ask when 'cake smashes' became a thing?
To ask when 'cake smashes' became a thing?
KimmySchmidtsSmile · 12/02/2016 18:41

Oh her expression in the bath is just adorable beth, really cute and innocent
at the same time: what, mischievous, me?

limitedperiodonly · 12/02/2016 18:49

I also want to start a thread looking for Limited's 1997 stamp as that is irking me from afar grin tis why the only thing we collect is...wait for it...pressed souvenir coins. Which I freely admit is a waste of pound coins and tuppences but it is a collection that a completist like me cannot screw up.

I don't remember what it was kimmy but yes, it offended the completist in me.

I do remember ranting at DH over the phone when he confessed he'd forgotten to get it. Then I became aware of other people in the office looking at me and that's when I realised I was being completely batshit and had to let it go Grin