Giant cupcake cake smash

[PandaEyes2]

Hi all,

I have my sons cake smash this Sunday (8th). I have practiced his cake once and it wasn't too bad. I've got the right recipe and cooked well last time.

However I've just done another practice run just to be sure and it seems worse than last time (exact same recipe). I am putting the oven on 160c and on my oven I have a setting that's apparently good for cakes (the picture for it looks like just 2 lines 1 above the other, whereas the normal fan oven has a fan in the middle). I'm wondering if I should just cook it using the ordinary fan oven setting as I've found this time that the sides are cooking long before the middle.

Doesn't anyone have any words of wisdom. I know it will be smashed up but I can't take a cake this is raw in the middle. I feel I have a good recipe so I'm prepared to stick with it.

I'm cooking the bottom first and covering with foil around 20 minutes in so the top doesn't burn and takes around an hour and pretty much the same for the top.

@tailspin I know, I was genuinely asking for advice and not backlash. I really didn't think it was this controversial! It's definitely a bit of fun and a I love seeing him covered in his food, wether it be his tea or cake. It's so good to let them explore food and textures, hence why HV really advise baby led weaning! I love baby led weaning by the way!

😂 at the thread police.

Cake smashes are a waste. Obviously you can't directly send the food abroad but you can stop wasting the earth's resources.

Or you can bake 3 cakes not to be eaten.

I love seeing him covered in his food, wether it be his tea or cake

Good grief.

@SuburbanRhonda what's wrong with that? Did your health visitors not explain baby led weaning to you and how beneficial it is to them and their development?

Even if you decide not to baby led wean it can still get pretty messy because at some point I'm sure they will want to put their hands in the food/spoon etc! I'm in no way messy! I take great pride in my home, however mess can be cleaned up! It takes 10 minutes to clean the highchair over and if you have any pride you hoover and clean he floors regularly anyway!

Wow, you are a patronising madam, op. And your posts have a proliferation of !!!!’s that make you sound like a breathless 12 year old.
Are you in fact 12? It would explain a lot.

Ur babez ur rulez, hun. If ya wanna do a cake smash then the ignore the h8erz. #makingmemories

So if someone disagrees with you then they are a knobhead? Ok then.

It's the way you go about it, you don't need to be so forceful on your opinions!

Somewhere that didn't want an option

You're pretty forceful yourself so you can't really call hurty feelings there. You must've known that this is a red button issue - and felt big enough to post (including details).

I still say OP is just stirring!

Whooooaaaaaaa. How did age get dragged into this?

I'm not a knob head. Or middle aged (yet). I don't like cake smashes. They're tacky. I'm not a snob. I'm working class.

160 doesn't sound high enough. I do sponge cakes on 170-180 depending on how big they are.

Well all the negative posts sounds like middle age knob head mothers

Whoa PandaEyes - reign in your little neck there. Ageist and sexist(some of the comments may have come from Dads)
(Cake smashes are tacky and wasteful, btw). If you're going to smash it up, why on earth bother with how well it will bake? Most of it will surely end up on the floor? At least the birds will enjoy it.

There is an enormous difference between baby-led weaning and teaching your child to be wantonly wasteful. What an awful lesson to teach. Shudder

Record numbers of people in this country using food banks and a 'cake smash' is a thing.....Jesus wept.

I can't even be arsed anymore. I think everyone needs to stop with this thread now as it's obviously not healthy for anyone! It's not going to change the outcome and insulting someone's morals and just being down right rude is enough now. Would you really be this rude to someone who you heard mention it in the playground picking your children up from school, or at a baby group.... I think not. I would totally defend myself though if I was getting this sort of crap from someone!

I didn't realise it was going to cause this as I have friends who have also done this (I'll let them know too how distasteful and tacky they are ).

Oh, believe you me, I have no problem in telling people in real life how distasteful and tacky they are, if that's what they are. Generally, I don't mix with such dreadful people, but if I do have the misfortune to cross paths, then off I go, just can't help myself

'I didn't realise it was going to cause this...'

Sorry, but is this your first rodeo?

Just as an aside, OP - if you have friends who have done this, why didn't you simply ask them for baking advice? They would surely have the necessary experience needed.

Well I wouldn't associated myself with such rude and obnoxious people! I have better things to do with my time than argue with trolls looking for trouble on the internet! Bye bye 👋🏼

Maaaan if I'd worked hard baking that cake and one of my DS whacked it... dear me.

Buy a shit cake from somewhere and smash that if that's what you want. But don't sweat the baking stuff if it's going to end up on the floor. Madness.

I don't get the cake smash thing. At all...

Oh sorry.

Bye.