The fourth anniversary of our youngest son’s birth approaches, and he hath made his wishes known: A Dinosaur Birthday Party
Part 1:
If you were a four year old boy, would you prefer a Dinosaur cake or a Volcano cake? Bear in mind, we have already procured a dinosaur shaped piñata.
Section B:
What was you most fondly remembered birthday cake?
Mine was the cake for my 6th birthday (circa 1977). Mom had a neighbor lady make a giant Holly Hobby cake. It wasn’t just a sheet cake with Holly Hobby on it- It had been sculpted into the shape of the actual doll. I thought it was beautiful, and cried when mom started cutting it up.
btw: For all the cake baking moms out there, this site is super cool.
The dinosaur cake. Ok, I’d still prefer it now, but I think it looks way more fun than the volcano cake.
And the cake I remember as my favorite was a castle cake that Mom made. It had ice cream cones as turrets and those after dinner mints as windows and such. I can’t seem to find a picture that comes close to matching my memory of how it looked though.
My parents improvised an echidna shaped and decorated cake for one of my birthdays. It was awesome. It had large chocolate chips all over in place of spines. My parents say the most memorable birthday cake they made was the one for my brother that was supposed to be Spiderman themed but took several bottles of red colouring to get not-pink enough. Nearly disastrous, apparently. I thought it looked good! My parents loved to collaborate after we’d gone to bed and suprise us with just awesome birthday cakes.
I think I’d want the volcano cake if it could be made dramatic enough.
I second the dinosaur cake. One can never have too many dinosaurs at a dinosaur party.
And my favorite was any one of the doll cakes my mom made. She wrapped the prettiest Barbie we had in plastic wrap from toes to torso and plunked her in an upside down bowl cake. Then she decorated the dress and torso and made lovely frosting hats. Hmmm, my birthday isn’t that far away…
My mother made a Batman cake for a cousin’s birthday.
24 hours later, Hilarity ensued, along with many panicked phone calls.
Think black frosting. LOTS of black frosting. :smack:
Definately the dinosaur – what’s better than green frosting when you’re four?
I never had a fancily decorated birthday cake when I was growing up. We always just had plain old layer cake in our choice of flavors. I usually picked spice cake with cream cheese frosting. Or, sometimes, chocolate cake with mint frosting (green!). Or, occasionally, white cake with lemon filling and whipped cream frosting…
Those are really cool cakes! I vote for the dragon–it’s too cute. I wish someone would make me a dragon cake for my birthday! I think the volcano cake would be better when he’s a little bit older, and maybe more into science-y stuff and explosions and things like that.
My most memorable cake ever is the boob cake I made when I was in high school. I posted about it a while back in a thread about cooking disasters, so I won’t bore everyone by telling that old story again. I’m trying to forget all about it, anyway.
Another vote for the dinosaur cake I too wouldn’t mind having that cake now. I wouldn’t mind this one, either.
My favorite cake ever was for my eight birthday. It was Garfield. However, when I was six or seven the neighbors had a halloween party, and we had a witch-shaped ice cream cake, which was very cool.
I don’t really remember a particularly bestest one, but my mom had these patterned cake pans sorta like these, they’d be either a teddy bear or Holly Hobbie or vase of flowers or whatever, depending on how you decorated it. It seemed to take her hours and hours to do one of our cakes, with the bags o’colored frosting and that little star tip thingy, and if we tried to help our stars would be too gloopy or too tiny and she’d have to scrape them off and fix it…
Hey, I think I just realized why I hate cake decorating!
While I like the volcano one, the dinosaur one will be easier to cut and serve. Plus, it’s just too darn cute. (Gotta admit, that pirate cake is pretty cool, though.)
Honestly, what I remember most about birthday cakes is my grandmother making them for EVERYONE. So she’d be constantly searching for recipes for applesauce cake, or orange cake or whatever. She didn’t have a cookbook, just was one of those women who “knew” how to cook and bake loads of stuff because she’d been doing it for so long. But every so often someone would stump her with a request and that’s when research in her old magazines would happen. Or she’d figure it out. I remember once she made a teddy bear out of Reese’s Peanut Butter cups for someone’s birthday cake (not mine). That was a huge hit.
I guess my most fondly remembered one was a Garfield one because it was the first shaped cake I’d had. It was chocolate inside and the chocolate was so-o-o-o good.
Another vote for the dino cake. Too cute! I like the snake cake, too; I may have to make that one for the boy’s sweet 16 next year. The pirate cake was cool, too. And the Green Eggs and Ham cake. Maybe I’ll make that one instead. Heck, I liked all of them.
Well, I can’t let a birthday cake thread go by without posting (yet again) photos of my cakes.
This attempt was from my birthday in 2002. I didn’t have cake tins, so I used my straight-walled frying pan. I misunderstood the instructions on the frosting, and failed to let the cake cool before putting it on. It tasted good though.
This one is from 2003. I used cake tins this time, and allowed the cake to cool properly before applying the frosting.
I didn’t make myself cakes in 2004 or 2005, because those were very rough years.
I too wouldn’t mind having that cake now. I wouldn’t mind 
