Colin is not a birthday cake

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Tomorrow our younger daughter is 24. I would love to have the energy to make her a cake but I’m running on fumes and have been for months.

I gave my husband one job. Go buy her a birthday cake. He sent me a photograph Colin. I said no, there is only one time a year she can have a cake with happy birthday written on it. Would you believe such a thing does not exist at our nearest M&S!

Her older sister has come to the rescue, she’s gone to Sainsbury’s.

YABU Colin is the gold standard shop bought cake

YANBU Colin is an any time of year cake

A Colin the Caterpillar cake? What's wrong with that as a birthday cake? I'd love it myself and I am 60.

Colin puts in an appearance at every birthday in our house!

Colin is most definitely a birthday cake!

Blooming eck I’d rather have a Colin than a generic sainsbugs birthday cake any day of the week.

we only have Colin’s on our birthday

We use Colin ( and other Caterpillar's) for birthdays of any age...stick a happy birthday/number candle in it and its fine. Best tasting cake in my opinion!

If not a birthday cake then what is it?

Colin is 10000% a birthday cake
I’ve never eaten it on any other occasion

I'm surprised. I was in our m&s yesterday and there was a nice selection of fancy birthday cakes. Colin, while tasty, would be a bit disappointing for a 24 Yr old.

Colin is THE birthday cake
when else do you get him?!

It can be either but Colin is overrated. Only his face is worth eating.

Of course its a birthday cake and a great one at that

Colin is the birthday cake of choice in our house when I haven’t had time to make one!

So you asked him to get a cake and he felt he couldn’t choose one without your final approval and then it wasn’t good enough so someone else has had to go to a different supermarket?

To be honest, it’s never crossed my mind that a birthday cake needs happy birthday written on it. To me, it’s the candles that makes a birthday cake a birthday cake.

M&S sells cakes and 'Happy Birthday' cake toppers/candles.

But Colin is the gold standard for birthdays.

Any cake can be a birthday cake if you stick candles on it .

I love a Colin cake!!! ☺️
YABVU you cake snob (lighthearted) 😂😂

HBD to your DD 🎉

Colin is definitely a birthday cake. He's got party sprinkles on.

Well most people that buy it
Buy it is a birthday cske and they they also have handy little indentations for exact slices but if you dont like it you dont like it you dont like it.

I haven’t had a birthday cake since I was a child. Am I the only one?

And his bumhole! 😂
He is 100% a birthday cake, my group of friends get each the birthday girl a Colin every birthday.

I organised at party for DH when he turned 60 but I didn't have a chance to make a cake. Colin it was. Popular choice and luckily DH is called Colin.

Aside from anything else, they're bloody delicious 😋

"Colin is an any time of year cake" is possibly the most unreasonable thing I've ever read on mumsnet. Are you tucking into a Colin on a random Tuesday?? I must know!

I’ve only ever seen a Colin eaten as a birthday cake, never as a ‘just because’ cake.
We make all birthday cakes here but a Colin is definitely a standard birthday cake.

DD will be 15 next week. She has requested an M&S Colin ice cream cake. If we discover that the ice cream cake was a summer special, and ordinary one will do.

Young adult DD recent birthday - I’ve always made a cake but this year just couldn’t and a Colin or equivalent was requested instead.