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

Our kids are a similar age and are most disappointed if there isn’t a Colin provided - on the eldest 21st we had a spectacular cake made, but they also had a Colin as its tradition here!

We're going away for my daughter's birthday so I bought these from M&S.

(to be chanted)
Colin! Colin! Colin!

She gets the chocolate face as it her birthday!

same! We might have colin on the birthday and then a lovely cake at the party.

It's entirely irrelevant if you find Colin dry and bland.

The question is not "is Colin a good cake?", it's "is Colin a birthday cake?"

Yes, Colin on a birthday is a birthday cake.

Any cake that's used to celebrate a birthday is a birthday cake.

I'm 40 and I'd love a Colin for my birthday cake!

It's the only cake my 21 year old asks for every year. Usually a Connie not a Colin.

I had mini Colins for my hen night.

They are bloody lovely 😋

I guess its all down to what the first of honour would like.

Straight from M&S website
"COLIN THE CATERPILLAR
Our Colin the Caterpillar is a British icon who’s been making birthdays magical since 1990"

I don’t think he’s a birthday cake either

Heretic!! 😆

Any cake can be a birthday cake if you stick some candles in it. That is the law.

Most definitely a birthday cake. Both my daughters have had it for 1st birthday and i requested it for my 18th

Unpopular opinion alert - Colin is overrated!! I’d be disappointed with a glorified Swiss roll for my birthday.

If you give someone else a job because you don't want to do it, don't complain how they do it.

Colin is probably one of the most bought birthday cakes in the country (and his compatriots Cuthbert, Curly, Clyde et al.)

The caterpillar cake from Aldi is tasty and if someone got that for me, in middle age, for my birthday, and stuck a few sparklers and candles in it, I'd be delighted.

I'm a good baker but if time is short, I'd get Colin. Failing that, a large boxed cake from Asda. But not the machine print out ones, they're crap. Just the green boxed ones.

There’s loads of birthday cakes in M&S.
We bought one yesterday, it’s lovely!

He just didn’t look… DH does this “they had no bread, milk, baked beans, bog roll etc…”

Colin, I’ve eaten on many occasions. I like the themed ones. But I’d prefer a proper cake.

Colin is absolutely a birthday cake. I have one every year.
(Birthday person gets the head in our family.)

Personally im not a fan of the colin cake but I've seen plenty of people have it for their birthday cake, candles and all.

I'd much rather have a Victoria sponge.

I resorted to a Colin being delivered last year, we’ve not had a Colin cake before so was a nice change.

Colin is most definitely a birthday cake.
Did you know that you can order a large personalised one that serves 40 from M and S? It does cost £50 but comes on a board with your personalised message.

Back in the 70s, all I wanted was a “Dougal” birthday cake … it was like Colin with long hair. My friend had one, and I never did … I would love a Colin Birthday Cake to make up for it.

For DDs 18th, we had a massive Colin Cake

I don't get the love for Colin anything! I find the cake too dry, too chocolatey and too many bits and pieces stuck on the icing! Plus, it contains rapeseed oil - poison!

Oh and btw our cakes rarely say happy birthday. We sing it and have candles doesn’t need to be written on the cake.