Giant cupcake cake smash

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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.

Too late for the popcorn?

The box got smashed Lweji .

OP's manners really do take the biscuit, don't they?!

Ooh - smashed biscuit party. That could be a thing.

Some of you calling the OP rude, tacky, distasteful, patronising etc really should read your posts back to yourselves. She only asked how to bake a bloody cake. Do you see how rude, tacky, distasteful and patronising you are coming across? Don't mix with such dreadful people? Omg. Who cares what she does with the cake? There's been absolutely no need for people to be so vile.

And calling posters "middle age knobhead mothers" is not vile? That was the precise point I chose to chip in. Hadn't actually bothered up until then. OP is rude and vile. And tacky. And wasteful. And most incredibly rude.

And gone.

Nah, she's still reading...

Most posters would have been happy to have offered advice on 'how to bake a bloody cake'. Just not one that was going to be smashed up and wasted. A pointless and wasteful exercise.

I can remember going to office parties/dinners in past years, when the evening would sometimes end up in a food fight. As a young woman then (not the middle-aged knobhead I am now) I thought it was the most dreadful behaviour. I am so disappointed that this new trend of cake-smashing now appears to be 'a thing'.

Bet you had a baby shower

Tacky beyond Tastic

Well I'm more the live and let live type. It's not my cup of tea either but I really couldn't care less about what she wants to do with her cake. She didn't deserve those responses.

This thread is really nasty. OP only wanted advice on how to make a cake.

You know what's really tacky?? All the people judging OP and taking the piss out of her. If you can't offer her advice regarding the cake then don't post. Mum sent can be such a horrible place at times.

Agree with just and music.
It’s enough to make me want to leave MN. There is a real feeling of ganging up and being really really nasty. It’s actually sad because these are grown women... presumably. It’s left a really horrible feeling with me that people could be so viscous over a cake.

OP only wanted advice on how to make a cake

Actually, no she didn't. She intimated further back that she is a fairly good baker, and has already had two practice bakes of this particularly large 'cupcake'. As I said earlier, had she only asked for advice on how to bake a cake, she would have received some most excellent advice. But no, OP Had to announce it was specifically for a 'cake smash'. Now, forgive me for misunderstanding, but that seems unnecessary information (who needed to know that?) and then to go on to call other posters 'middle-aged knobhead mothers' because they didn't agree with her, seems rather goady. IMO (which I hope I'm allowed to have).

I could offer advice all day on how to bake a cake. A cake to be smashed up, however, not too happy about. Call me an old-fashioned knobhead if you must, but there we have it

I had a cake smash photo shoot done, also had a newborn one. Loved every minute & love the photos. She's most likely going to be my only child & if I want to pay for cakes/photos/props etc that's my choice. Not sure why the OP is being accused of being all that is wrong with the world tbh! I'm pretty sure some people waste more food on a regular basis that 3 cakes once a year! (Although the first one was eaten) it's not because you care about the environment it's because you're snobs who don't like these photos. That's fine but don't pretend to be high and mighty about saving the planet when in actual fact you're just being bitchy for no good reason. OP I hope your son has a wonderful birthday.

Thanks music and mama. I was beginning to think I needed a sanity check for a moment. I was just imagining OP happily looking forward to her party thinking 'ooh my cakes not coming out quite right, ill just ask on MN' and then got that response. Has the feel of playground bullies all jumping on the bandwagon. Cake smash is not my thing as I said but I know who I'd rather have cup of tea and slice if cake with.

Oh dear - I see posters' posts are being deleted, left right and centre, just because they don't agree with the wasting of food. Dearie, dearie me!

Oh, I'd like to have a SLICE of cake with many people. Not so keen on a smashed-up cake, having been smeared all over a baby first. Yuck!

As long as she doesn't throw it at me. Oh we can't do light hearted either on MN anymore can we?

I have literally no idea why my innocuous comment was deleted

Was it because I said grundy was a stinky poo poo head?

I'd try upping your oven temp, OP, I think 160 is a bit low. I usually have much better results with 180.

Yes, I am blithely ignoring the rest of the thread and I don't expect OP is reading now. But how nasty people have been. How absolutely horrible & judgemental.
Good luck with your baking and have a lovely day, OP. I don't understand why people have been so mean about a child's party. Almost all the cake gets wasted & smeared about anyway & squashed into soft furnishings at any (toddler...) birthday party.