1st birthday cake ideas?

[PasstheStarmix]

Hi, ds will be 1 year old in a few weeks and I’m starting to think about a cake. What did you do? Did you buy a cake or cupcakes or bake your own? A friend of mine said her dd vomited the cake on her 1st birthday because wasn’t used to the texture and it set off the gag reflex. This made me think is there a certain type of cake I should avoid? Anybody experienced this before?

IMO a one year old birthday cake is , as far as the birthday person is concerned a prop for a photograph or three! As long as there is a candle and a number 1 somewhere on it the main consideration should be what sort of cake the adults, specifically mum, like.

you can start getting creative when the child gets to 2.

Ps practice candle blowing skills before the big day.

We made ds an Apple pie! Mommie loves Apple pies!

Much nicer than cake. I think.

I made a xylophone cake which was the most straightforward cake ever (rectangular sponge with piped white butter cream, then smaller fondant rectangles to decorate, chocolate mini rolls for "wheels" as it was based on dd's own pull along xylophone). Now it's all Harry Potter and Minecraft cakes.

Thanks everyone, i’m going to have to diet ready! Did your dc have taste of the cake and if so were they okay ? I just don’t want ds vomiting on his birthday like my friends baby.

We did a cake smash he had a fab time 😀

We did a flan base filled with fruit and cream - he loved it ( and no vomiting!)

Hmm not sure on the smash cakes. I was thinking of maybe doing cupcakes. Don’t see point in DS destroying a huge cake that he can’t eat; seems like a lot of waste. I suppose a small one would be okay maybe. I was thinking of birthday cupcakes and that way they’re a nice size for ds and everyone else can have one too.

I just bought a rainbow one from the supermarket. DD was not sick but she'd eaten cake before. She only had a few of her handfuls.

Thanks Unihorn ds hasn’t eaten cake before and I’m not sure how he’ll be. He is funny with certain textures at the best of times

The rainbow cake sounds cool 👍🏼

I had a Mickey Mouse body parts cake made for DS. Normally I would have made it myself but we only got back from Florida 2 days before his birthday so paid a baker friend. Everyone loved it and DS had a small bit of cake (no icing) I totally agree with Pp about it being more for us than them. He didn’t know what it was or what to do with it but I’m still glad I did it

Just give him a very small amount to explore. Does he like bread or any kind of biscuity/sweet thing?

I really like cakes with fruit on so that could be something if he likes strawberries or bananas or whatever - he could just eat the fruity topping and leave the cake part if he isn't keen. Or put chocolate buttons or jelly tots on - any little sweets he likes. Victoria sponge is nice and simple and I think a plain jam filling is nice too. You could do a flan with mandarin orange slices suspended in gelatine if he likes jelly. Or rice crispy cakes?

I think it's asking for trouble if you do a hugely coloured thing with masses of buttercream etc when they aren't used to eating any kind of sweets.

Thanks for your honesty Bertie. That’s what I was worried about. I want ds to have fun and have nothing against him having a fun birthday cake with lots of buttercream etc but don’t want it making him unwell on his birthday as that won’t be too fun for him at all! I tried him with some cake crumbs from a muffin to test and he liked taste but then gagged and threw the tiny crumbs up. Seems to be rhe texture that he wasn’t keen on. He has the same problem with rice he just doesn’t take well to it. He loves toast fingers and cheese straws etc. He likes banana flavour but won’t eat bananas as again he doesn't like the texture! No idea where he gets this fussiness from

He can eat things like pasta and bolognaise with bits of small bits of mince fine and loves that. He also loves yoghurt and fruit. I do think he’s more of a savoury baby though...

pepper *

Might just be he’s not used to overly sweet. The Victoria sponge sounds like a good idea as I think he’d like the cream as he loves Greek natural yoghurt sweetened with fruit.