To hate this smashcake craze?

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A close member of our family has just spent £100 on a smashcake for her 1st baby's birthday.
I find it quite disgusting to waste food like this. It surprises me that I have quite a gutteral reaction to this. I also find it disgusting to see people in baths of beans etc.

Anyone else feel like this or am I just a killjoy?

Here is the other random photo off Pinterest that inspired my nickname...

Chocolate Coloured Cat.

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Too much fuss and too much money invested for such "skills".
That parents do it so that their child can learn or practice skills is laughable.

Alas PoorYorick, where is your infinite jest and excellent fancy? Where be your gibes..your gambols? Your songs? Your flashes of merriment...

I'm dead and making you morose at the thought of your mortality. And wanting to make sure people who see the cat picture don't think "what a great idea" and get a chocolate sponge for their cat or dog. Might be obvious to you, but ask any vet how many poisoned animals they see around Easter and Christmas.

I work in animal welfare, it's not a risk I'm prepared to take, even if a Mumsnetter makes fun of me for it.

LWEJI off course they dont do it just for that reason, i was just saying that its not a total pointless activity for the kid.

They do it because they think its cute

It is pointless because they could easily be doing something else.

And hardly "cute".

This is getting ridiculous now

Any activity is pointless then isnt it.

We have food play at work which the babies love.. they play with jelly.. noodles.. flour.. bread... veg.. cream..
They get a lot out of it. It even helped a child who was differecult with eating. Getti g them to play with real food in a fun way atually helped them try newthings.

Activity, yes.

Huge fuss with expensive photos in a studio, pointless.

And we are now on the BBC website here

When did this craze come in? I have never heard of it. Sounds completely mad not to speak of wasteful. What if children start tipping food over children at school! Can't blame the children. Just point the finger at their parents.

This post is hilarious. Some of you guys need to get over it. Leave people be if they want to have a cake smash for their babies. I'm sure there are more important issues to worry about.

Enjoy your 1st birthday cake smash little ones. I, for one, think you will have a fabulous time smashing that cake :) x

I had a smash cake for my daughter's first, as well as DD2 this year. My friends and family in the states had been having them for their children for a few years before that, so for me, they're not new. DD1 didn't smash the cake and we didn't have a pro photographer, just me. Five years later and DD2 treats her cake the same way. I suppose my girls just don't like mess! We just ended up with more cake to go round. We only did it for their first birthdays, so only to mark that one special occasion.

BBC website says that there as also a post smash bubble bath also captured for posterity. What next! Post cake poo, photographed and bronzed for posterity?