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.

Never heard of it. What is the point of it?

The OPs been giving as good as she's been getting (you should read the thread really) and I suspect having posts zapped that she doesn't like too.

Nongoddess - a lot of food often does get smeared and squashed. However, that is just usually in the normal way of getting children to eat. However - actively encouraging children to deliberately smash up a cake is surely also endorsing vandalism, of a sort. If this is what they get used to, what would you suggest I do if, for instance I have a party with a lovely cake, and one of these little vandals comes in and starts smashing it up - because this is what they have been encouraged to do for previous photo shoots in their formative young lives because their parents thought it was 'too cute', and now they think it is acceptable to do whenever they see a cake. Ooh cake - let's smash it up, that's what it's there for.

COOk on 180. Wrap the tin in a cold wet tea towel. This enables the cake to cook evenly as it keeps the sides of the tin cool enough to let the middle cook properly.

I made a giant teapot for my grans 70th and used this method.

Wrap in a tea towel? Well I never!

Oh, OP is reading - that's why previous posts that don't agree with her PoV are being zapped.

Noooooooo! See gas lighting- I told you!

MrsA - now that is a handy tip. Thank you!

Can’t see a picture. Your oven may be too hot. Don’t open the door to keep looking. Fan ovens are the work of the devil imo.

Use a skewer and if it clean coming out it’s cooked.

Whereas calling people 'nasty bastards' and 'utter wankers' is fine, is it?

Nasty bastards being utter wankers for the sake of it.

Oh, the irony!

In I got zapped for saying poo poo head... 😮🙄😄

WarmestRegards -

Haha Warmest

Also the cake smash is happening before the actual birthday!

Wowsers

Fekko - I know! Dismal, isn't it?

Presumably in case OP doesn't get the Kodak moment she's after so she has time to make and waste 3 more cakes for a second go....

How much will a 1yr old actually remember of their smashing cake bash birthday, I wonder? Probably nothing, I guess. So when they reach the age of 30, they'll say "Thanks Mum for making me three cakes for my 1st birthday bash, that I can't even remember. Oh, hang on - I've got the photos to prove it happened. Is that actually me, underneath all the crumbs and icing? Or was it all staged?"

Op giving advice about BLW 😂. My pfb didn't get a BLW cake smash, she's 10 years old next month, should I organise a cake smash for her so she reaps the benefits of it?

What the....???

How did a post in the baking section asking for advice on erm, baking, end up being a highly emotional debate on the ethics of "wasting" a homemade cake ??!!!

Get a grip people, and a life, and maybe some sugar to loosed those sour pursed lips....

Oh and but they are just so tacky it is hard not to comment... it really isn't hard, in fact it's quite easy really, you don't type and press post, you just keep bloody scrolling 🤔

This thread is shocking!
OP if you are still reading I hope you enjoy your cake smash. We did one for DD2 the other week and I did one for DD1 when she was one too. It was fun, cute and I have some beautiful pictures from it to treasure. My DD1 loves looking at her pictures in her baby books

Well done to you for making your own cake, I paid someone else to do it (horror!) and incidentally most of the cake was salvageable so we ate it. Win win.

Just reading through at some of the attacks on the OP, and it's really horrible. You might not agree with cake smashes, but really does it warrant such vitriol from some people? Really, this place can be vicious sometimes! . She might as well have asked for ways to kill someone or something, the reactions from some people! It's just a cake! The other 2 trial cakes are going to be eaten, and no doubt quite a bit of the third one. Hope the ones complaining of waste (of one smallish cake) have never wasted anything ever?

It's a tongue in cheek thread - read the OPs responses. She has given as good as she got (and some) and some of the counter replies from others have been pretty nasty.

There's no way someone would ask for baking tips then 'innocently' drop in the cake smash detail as a 'by-the-way' without knowing that it would set the cat among the pigeons.

No need to be too invested in the thread or responses. It's like a playground squabble. It's a cake, nobody died.

Fekko, yes I have read the whole thread! I don't think it's tongue in cheek! Your own responses mainly seem to be so, but some people have been downright nasty about it!

"It's a cake, nobody died."
Yes, my point exactly! Why do people feel the need to resort to insults over something like that? Sure, it's not everyone's cup of tea, but she wasn't even asking about it.