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

Reading the comments I wish we had a laughing emoji reaction button 😂

I like white cake but never get it. People always buy chocolate. I love a white Madeira with icing and Happy Birthday on the top.

I would be so disappointed with a Colin the caterpillar for my birthday.

I have only ever bought it twice, both times at Christmas and both times they were dry and tasteless, I have no idea why there is so much hype for them.

Yes! He's called Arctic Colin.

Colin is nostalgic. But it has to be Colin Or Connie. No other brands will do

I’d be gutted to get a generic cardboard tasting Sainsburys cake only to find out I could’ve had a Colin! Colin is the best.

Colin doesn't need the words because it's very obviously a birthday cake. Why else would you have a cake shaped like a caterpillar?

You get a Colin in our house on your birthday. That’s the law. I’d be very upset not to get mine.

I prefer Graham from the Co-op but Colin is more than acceptable.

For little kids. At 24?
I wouldn't expect my cake to have the words happy birthday on it. You can always put candles if you want to make it clear.

Everyone should have birthday cake on their birthday, regardless of age! I'm in my 40s and would be quite sad with a cake-less birthday.

Definitely a birthday cake, and my preference over cakes with marzipan.

Not a big Colin fan. I love Lola’s and generally order online. We have a collection point near home.

Doesn't it depend on the person whose birthday it is?

I hate most shop bought cakes but Colin & Co are a decent option and DD (19 now) loves them.

I fdidn't organise a cake this year as we came back from a visit to her grandparents abroad on her birthday (she had cake for breakfast with them) so I got her a mini Colin at the M&S in Gatwick.

The only acceptable shop bought cake imo

What sacrilege is this. I’m in my 60s and Colin would be my preferred birthday cake!

Colin is the best birthday cake!

Colin & Connie are both on the borthday cake shelf in M&S. Normal cakes are on another shelf. They taste better than the other supermarket birthday cakes. I"ve often used Colin & Connie together when their small birthday cakes are not big enough for the amount of people.

Unless our DD has time to make a cake Colin or Cuthbert or whoever is our go to. We sometimes get the mini Colins to go with it.

Crickey at work we joke that it’s not a birthday without a Colin and this year my brother turned down his wife making him a cake because he really wanted a Gluten Free Colin as they now make them!

Obviously you missed the Colin memo and your husband didn’t!

Really sweet and boring. Only suitable for kids birthdays because they waste half of it anyway!

Colin is the epitome of an "I couldn't give a hoot" cake.

Surely it is easier to make a Victoria sponge in 20mins than head to the shop and buy a cake.

Colin* is a universal celebrate anything cake.

*M&S GF version in this house, which I think is possible nicer than the standard one 🐛

I’m glad I’m not the only one who thinks they are overrated, extremely dry and bland in my opinion. I’ll eat it, obviously, but it doesn’t feel very special or luxurious to me. To paraphrase a previous poster, I am the kind of carefree person who would buy a Colin on a random Wednesday and it would be fine. If a little dull.

Shop bought cake is fine if you know it's flavour they like. I like to get a plain one so that i can personalise and decorate it a bit with buttercream, choc buttons / maltesers / matchsticks, etc. I'm not a baker but i do try to make a bit of effort.

A colin cake is ok, but there's not much scope to personalise. Sounds like most people here would be happy tho.