To buy a birthday cake when it's not my birthday...

[MissRabbitNeedsAHoliday]

Or anyone else in the houses birthday!
I just really want cake, and for some reason only birthday cake is appealing to me at the moment. I'm not even pregnant so can't use cravings as an excuse. Tell me wise mumsnetters is it totally weird to buy birthday cake when it's not for a birthday? 😂

Do you have children? Maybe it's a special teddy/dolls birthday today? You could totally turn that into a whole afternoon activity having them make bunting for decorations, whip up some easy 'party food' together like cheese straws and 'traffic lights' (cocktail stick with a cherry tomato, carrot slice and piece of green pepper on), get dressed up (in old, nearly-grown-out-of fancy clothes) and even play party games. Have the party tea be a picnic on a blanket in the living room and bring out the cake at the end.

4th August - Let Them Eat Birthday Cake day.

Sounds goods to me.
Think what it will do for the baking industry.

Adulthood begins when you realise you can JUST GO BUY AND EAT A CAKE.

Sure. Tesco's do a lovely wee one for £6 (price may have increased). I regularly bought one during my pregnancy 😳🙈

This is why I love being an adult. If I want cake, I buy one and eat it.... good times

brilliant idea

Do you have any small children at home? We once had a full on birthday party for one of DDs build a bear toys, we were having a bbq anyway but we got a cake and dressed the toys up in their best clothes then DD carried the bear to the cake and blew out the candles whilst we sang happy birthday.

I am guilty of buying a reduced Birthday Cake once, and I have no shame 😊

You might as well. I would regu buy a Tesco party tray chocolate cake for no particu reason.

Haha cross post, glad we aren’t the only ones who celebrate inanimate objects imaginary birthdays as an excuse to eat cake.

Are you lighting candles

I have done just this, a few times actually! I thought I was the only crazy one 🤣 Cake is my weakness and sometimes I just really really fancy a bit of b’day variety

Made blueberry muffins earlier, but the thought of ICED cake......oh yeah, drool.....

Go for it!

I sometimes make a cake or a batch of cupcakes or some cake pops "just because"

It would be rude not to celebrate Dangerfloof’s DC’s dumptruck toy’s birthday, I’m sure it’s today!

It's apparently Obama's birthday today, too.

You would thus be celebrating the memory of when sanity prevailed in US-UK politics.

It is your diplomatic duty to eat as much cake as you can possibly manage.
Blame sodding Trump.

I think YABU because homemade cake is (almost) always nicer than bought.

Only if there are several birthday cakes on sale and you are not going to disappoint some very disorganised person who has just rushed in to get one last minute!

I don't understand. There is a difference between cake and birthday cake? Isn't birthday cake either just cake sold with a birthday message on it, or cake bought for a birthday?

It’s three years since I bought my bike, according to fb memories. That is a cake worthy event- it’s a great bike. 🎂

Absolutely not unreasonable! You are only unreasonable in that you have now made me want birthday cake immediately also.

OH works at Tesco and one of the few perks is the free stuff, he often comes home with bags of perfectly good stuff on its last day of shelf life and we rarely pay for bread etc, but once he came home with a large rainbow coloured birthday cake covered in sprinkles and all that jazz. It made my year. Get the cake. Do it.

Go for it OP.

I'm going to buy a small carrot cake the moment I get back home!

Are you lighting candles?

Has to be done!