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...

I just did ordinary cake mixtures - a huge (six-egg) one for the party cake (in a roasting tin, most satisfying), and spooned into those fabulous tiny sparkly cases you can get in supermarkets, for the little ones. We have organic flour and sugar (which is fair-traded) in stock usually because of being pinkoliberals . And then I did a fudgy icing for the huge cake with a bar of plain and a bar of milk chocolate (fair-traded because I am predictable) melted with a bit of butter and golden syrup....

My conversion to cake-making is relatively recent but builds on a lifetime of gustatory research

I don't do party bags. I've been to too many parties when the children asked what was in them at the start of the party and went on to ask at three-minute intervals for the entire duration.

hallgerda how rude! I've never had that thank goodness.

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a lifetime of gustatory research! but remember the research is always evolving... (I'm currently trying to specialize in pavlovas...)

for the mum to eat surely?

LOL icod!

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At ds's birthday (joint party with other small children) we did the whole candle thing then cut the cakes up and dished it round the children and the adults. Everybody seemed to love it. I always find the cake in party bags is squished and looks a bit grim.

icod - yep, i've had the same thing happen with fab cake but given different cake to take home.

that's outrageous!

I have done iced biscuits in childs initial for the party bag

very popular but a bit of a massive shag

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they are too small

you need bigger ones

I have a further theory. Eating a piece of birthday cake is akin to mainlining icing sugar, and the party hosts do not wish to experience the after effects as seen on a gang of preschoolers

This year DD's birthday "ckae" is to be individual cup cakes iced with letters, which will be arranged to read out Hapy Birthday DD! Then each child can have a cup cake on top of their party bag.

So Franca tell us, what happens at an Italian children's party then?

Hulababy that sounds lovely!
I'm not very sure SSS... have been living here for too long... , as I always say I don't "know" Italy anymore as much as I don't have a clue about Britain . cakes are usually eaten during the birthday party. and the moment when children (and parents) eat is not separated from the playing and partying (the usual Italian anarchy). Never heard of party bags before coming to England, although I remember (from my and my friends' parties in the SEVENTIES) that we had games where you could win a small notebook, a pencil and even better a rubber (at that time it was popular to have a collection of small pretty, smelly rubbers). The food is obviously different and there is the same concern of children eating a lot and then not eating at dinner, but children have dinner later anyway. .

"mainlining icing sugar" rofl

Actually reminds me - need to ask my friend to pick me up some more food glitter for them.

Italian Birthday Parties!

I've been to many...one even had waiters & the table for the food was 20ft long, the centre piece was a 4 tier wedding style cake!...The Birthday boy was 2!

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no, things weren't like that in the seventies...