Not a proper birthday cake????

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It's my husband's birthday this weekend and we're planning a BBQ. For the bday cake I was planning on making a strawberry cheesecake. When I mentioned this to him his words were: "that's not a birthday cake. It has to be a sponge cake to be a birthday one. Cheesecake sounds lovely though!"

Why? What? How?......... I got super puzzled. Is this a rule??

He obviously loves cheesecakes, I mean he'd eat anything that's in front of him but I was a little bit surprised on the "sponge cake rule". Is there really such thing?

you wouldn't have a slice of cheesecake with a cup of tea at 4pm.

I feel like a barbarian

If it's cake to eat on your bday then it's bday cake.

Strawberry cheesecake sounds fab.

Cheesecake isn't cake though, is it?

I wouldn't refuse it or be miffed though!

Yes I would, borpborpborp well, I'd love to, but can't stand tea, and can't have dairy, but would have no problem eating cheesecake at any time if I could 😄

Last year, I had a Neopolitan Cheesecake for my Birthday cake - it was fab and exactly what I wanted. A friend with the same birthday hada Lemon Cheesecake - exactky what she wanted!

What makes any plate of food a Proper Birthday Cake is the opinion or request of the Person Who's Birthday it is.

I would rather see Noel Edmonds jump naked out of a cake than have chocolate cake for my birthday. I don't mind chocolate cake in the right setting but it doesn't qualify as birthday cake.

cherryplumbanana my thoughts exactly!! Any dessert with a candle is a birthday cake. Why so many rules?

Your DH is right cheesecake is not a birthday cake

You have cake and champagne in the afternoon

Dinner & cheesecake in the evening

""There IS a rule about bday cake? shock grin Please someone tell me what a birthday cake is!""

They date back to Roman times and in all cultures, contain flour/wheat. They were also baked.

In Korea, they have Seaweed Birthday soup.

a cake of cheese?

anyway no i not a cake as such more like a gooey dessert

Cheesecake is not a birthday cake, I like cheesecake but on my birthday I want a good old cake

Cake & a glass of some alcohol in the afternoon, cheesecake after dinner

Mitzy that is so wrong I need brain bleach
is a cheesecake actually a cake? I know it has a biscuit base, and is delicious, and is welcome it at a birthday celebration but is it really cake?
Fwiw "Birthday cake" round here is anything you can stick candles into.

These days at weddings people often have wheels of cheese, or a giant pork pie instead of trad wedding cake. We have shaken off the shackles of Cake tyranny.

My mum once stuck a birthday candle in a sausage roll because my sister doesn't like cake.

Google is not helping me on that one, but I have to share that one:

In Korea, the traditional birthday dish is a seaweed soup

He is right! It isn't a proper birthday cake , with or without candles!

Woah, this no chocolate cake thing, that's just the two of you being eccentric and knowing it, is it not?

Birthday cake can be any kind of cake - sponge, chocolate, carrot, coffee, whatever you like - with icing and candles.

Agree that cheesecake does not count as cake but, if that's what the birthday person wants (or a pile of cheese, or of profiteroles...) then that's ok, isn't it?

But isn't birthday cake a decorate fruit cake?

sorry, part xpost Birdsgottafly!

It's fine - anything you stick a candle on and call a birthday cake is a birthday cake.

On Blue Peter they made cakes for Shep et all out of dog food FFS.

Cheese cake isn't even a cake...

Monkeywithacowface I totally agree, chocolate cake is lovely, but it isn't birthday cake!!! Has to be traditional sponge for me or I feel hard done by!!!

Who knew there were all these No Chocolate Cake on Birthdays type people wandering among us. I bet they look relatively normal too.............

I haven't had a birthday cake for 25 years so I'd take a cheesecake happily.

it's his birthday its a (cheese)cake so as far as I am concerned it's a birthday (cheese)cake!

Now the kids are not little a birthday cake in this house comes in many different variations, as long as it has at least one candle it's a birthday cake and that includes a Cornetto or a pile of profiteroles.

He is being unreasonable.

Can we please stop with the naked Noel Edmonds!

Now naked Tom hardy and it's any fucking cake you like