why isn't the cake eaten at the party?

[franca70]

why do you have to bring it home instead of eating it all together? please, help...

We had 2 cakes for ds's party. We put a piece in each party bag and cut up the rest and served it with tea or coffee during the party. Yummy!!

The cake is served to the parents and inlaws BTW.

It's definitely to bulk out the party bag. Imagine trying to fill the damn things otherwise. I shudder thinking about it.

I think it is also a classic British way of cramming more sweet things into the day. One pudding to eat and one to take home.

Because you don't want to see the little angels pull the icing off to eat it and then tread the rest of the cake into the floor?

[not to mention the party bag, another total novelty for me ]

BTW we have one cake for party with friends and one cake for family.

I agree muminfife!

We ALWAYS have cake at the party. I'm buggered if I'm making the little buggers(and I include my own little buggers in this buggery) a lovely cake out of organic bloody ingredients with fair trade bloody sugar and chocolate in it, for said cake to loiter around getting staler and staler till their small siblings find it and stuff it at 7am one day.

Mind you, the party bags at DD1's recent bash did have cake in too - little ones, in sparkly cases. V fetching. Solves the party bag issue, in fact.

pass that recipe, please

D'you know, MI, I think you may have cracked it there.

I always put it in the bags, have no idea why, except that that's what everyone else does...

Who? Which?

Yep. We have the cake at the party.

But as I don't do party bags, I'd have nothing to put it in to take home anyway...

I was terribly chuffed at my idea of little cakes in sparkly cases. They got a gingerbread man too - bad idea, though, breakage. And two sparkly pens.

Ds's party - balloon animals and a lollipop

Dd's party - a gingerbread woman

Cake eaten here (or at whichever venue party is held at)

I like single items...

It's when you start having bags that it gets OTT I reckon.

the one with the bloody organic ingredients . also like the little cakes in sparkly cases. did you make them???

Because everyone's stuffed themselves on the other food and has no space for cake. As the cake has to be produced for the candle-blowing, it has to be shared. Hence the take-home cake.

I think franca means the recipe for fair-trade organic cake...

we do it at the party too. yummy.

so party bags aren't actually compulsory?

Oh sorry, should refresh before posting...

party bags IMHO are a good idea as they show everyone that the party's over and they can skedaddle out the door.

Also I like them. But a single prezzie - eg a wrapped up pound-shop item- works just as well.

BTW MI I noticed in Sainsbo's the other day that they now do a birthday cake which actually consists of lots of little cupcakes.

So either they've stolen your idea...or maybe Nigella's?