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No cake traditions for us.

My mom ALWAYS made our cakes. We never got store bought because... well, because theyre expensive and eff that.

When I was a kid, it was always yellow cake with vanilla frosting. When I got older, she always made me spice cake with cream cheese frosting, which is my favorite.

Um, is it a tradition that most of my birthday cakes have a giant slice missing before I blew out the candles, because my dad wanted a piece first? I used to think it was sort of endearing, now I just think it was a dick thing to do.

Dh's family has a tradition where, if your bday lands on Easter (as E's will frequently), you get a bunny cake. So I'll be making a bunny cake this year for Easter.

I can't wait to do cake traditions with my kids, though. I love baking cakes and making them all fannnncy

Ice cream cake! (Aug baby :P)

Always homemade or ice cream cake!

No, but I started the tradition of birthday pancakes w/ sprinkles with W this year.

@blackbird: oh my gosh this is so hilarious yet equally sad!!

Not cake but my mom used to make marshmallows on a stick, dipped in chocolate with a smartie on top! I loved it and it was my favourite birthday treat!

Mom would bake all of our cakes growing up, for every occasion imaginable (St. Patrick's Day, end of school year, Halloween, Thanksgiving, etc.). The non-birthday ones would go to school, which made us popular in elementary school (everyone wanted to be in our classes); this would never fly nowadays, of course! She also used to do birthday cakes for my 20+ cousins. To accommodate everyone's wishes she would make both white and chocolate cake mix and pour them into the pan from both sides until they met in the middle. Voila, half white and half chocolate cake. The cakes themselves were decorative masterpieces. She had well over a hundred Wilton cake pans, with all sorts of characters on them. Here's an example of one she made a few times (online stock image):

My mom always brought store bought sheet cake in for my class because my bday was the first week of school. Other than that my bday "cake" was a slice or scoop of whatever I ordered at my bday restaurant dinner.

My mom always made us a "shape cake" - a cake that was the shape and decorated like something else like animals and I think I had the princess cake 3 or 4 times. Her mom did it too and the book that most of these cakes came from now have 3 generations of people's names and dates of when that cake was made. It's pretty awesome to see that your monkey cake was also Aunt Paula's 10th birthday cake or whatever. She did stop doing that when we stopped being kids though (like 11 or 12).

@ValentineMommy: Happy birthday!!

@Dandelion: Angel food cake is my favourite, too. But I got it so rarely because of the tradition of the character cakes. DH isn't very fond of it either, so it's still a big treat.

@ValentineMommy: Enjoy your birthday!!!

@blackbird: Ha! That is dickish ... but he probably thought it was awesome.