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my mom always baked cakes for us. she really had it tough because my birthday was first, my dad's was 3 days later, my brother's was 2 days after that. I can't remember us ever sharing one cake - I think there were at least 2 if not 3 every year.

I think boxed cake is really as good as scratch if you make your own frosting. I'm pretty sure she used boxed for the cake, but when we were little would do elaborate shapes (train, cabbage patch doll, etc). always frosted with homemade buttercream plus she can do all the fancy Wilton-style decorating (she was a home ec teacher back when that existed).

I'm pretty sure I'll never live up, I can do some of the decorating but with kids who will be about 10 days apart I am definitely not planning two big fancy cakes!

My mom made us a cake from scratch every year. She had a decorating book and we'd go through it and pick the cake we wanted. I remember at 10 or 11, being so shocked when I found out that some other kids' cakes came from bakeries.

No, my Asian mother also did not bake. We usually ordered a cake from the Chinese bakery with fruit filling. Yum!

Yes, until high school we couldn't afford store bought cakes (nor did we have a grocery with a bakery within an hour and a half drive). We just did the standard 9x13 cake pan with boxed cake and canned frosting- we got to pick the flavors and help make and decorate the cake. It was a lot of fun to participate in it!

I think one or two, otherwise it was grocery store character cakes.