My mom would make me a Duncan Hines vanilla cake with green pistachio frosting. Mmmmmm... it was the highlight of my year!!
What kind of cake did you have for your birthday growing up?
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I had an angel food doll cake. It was baked in a round bowl and then turned upside down and put a doll in the middle (up to her waist). Then the cake was iced to look like the cake was the dolls dress. I loved it. My mom made my LO one for her first birthday!
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Little Mermaid ice cream cake!
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My mom would bake a sponge cake and then put jam and frosting in between two layers, so yummy
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I think I got grocery store cake? I don't remember!
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My mom always made these awesome elaborate cakes for us. Like once she made me Castle Grayskull (from He-Man). Another time she made a popple. She did it all freehand. She also handmade all of our Halloween costumes. She's amazing.
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Carvel ice cream cake because my birthday is in the summer.
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She made different kinds. But my favorite was when she'd make an ice cream cake, with three different flavors of ice cream, lady fingers on the side, and the top was a hard chocolate with sprinkles on top. Yum!
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I always got an icecream cake for my birthday from Dairy Queen! Still do to this day actually! My birthday is always one of the hottest days of the year, so everyone loves it too.
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My mum used to make them into the shape of whatever I was into that year... so I remember once I had Noddy in his car, the year I started playing the trombone she made one from cake.. for my 18th she made a cake replica of me sprawled out drunk, pint in one hand, cigarette in the other - it was so exaggerated : ) I started making personalised cakes for my niece's birthdays, I love them!
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Yellow cake with chocolate frosting. Every. Year. I always requested the same thing.
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Yummmm..... we always had white cake covered with whipped cream & fresh strawberries! The best!
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In junior high my Mom was taking Wilton cake decorating classes and baked and decorated me a New Kids on the Block cake. It was freaking unbelievable - all my friends were sooooo jealous!
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I always had a strawberry cake with white chocolate mousse and shavings on top, obviously not homemade!
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It'd be a cake from either wal-mart or Sam's with whipped frosting that was divided in half via frosting. My brother and I have the same birthday so the cake was always half pink and half blue.
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@Alivoo01: Same birthday, different years?
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@mrbee: yup! We were born 4 years apart and pretty much 4 hours apart. Ha!
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Cookie cakes were always my favorite!
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I always remember my mom making me carrot cake w/ cream cheese frosting
mmmmm
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@eiko2010: I had a popple cake too! funfetti mix all the way.
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@Smurfette: I love cookie cakes!! I was so excited when the mall cookie cake places started selling them by the slices!!!
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I always had ice-cream cakes (birthday is in mid-summer).
My sister always had cheesecake....mmmmNothing was ever homemade ....my mom doesn't "do that" haha
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@mrbee: I've never had pistachio frosting but it sounds amazing!
@Mrsbells: you have me drooling!!
I always requested marble cake with chocolate frosting! Except when I was 8 & wanted a tiered cake which had white frosting & purple flowers haha mini wedding cake
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Pretty soon my family realized that none of us really liked cake. So we had birthday pie.
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My mom would make cupcakes without frosting. She never wanted me to have a lot of sugar!
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I had a Vietnamese/French fruit tart from a local bakery (Le Croissant Dore). Typical dessert around Little Saigon! I'll try to find a pic.
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I had a different cake every year, but my favorite was always lemon cake
Growing up I wasn't a huge fan of chocolate cake... weird right? But it's my fave now.
I would have yellow cake with german chocolate or coconut frosting.
loved the funfetti too!!
I loved cheesecake but that was my mom's cake that she had every year lol
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We always have yellow cake with chocolate frosting. It's everyone's favorite! And we eat it in a bowl with milk
Yum!
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Is it weird that I remember what kind of cake I had EVERY single year? lol My mom went to a lot of effort to make sure my birthdays were memorable, usually.
1 - Homemade apple spice
2 - Homemade apple spice
3 - Homemade apple spice
4 - Banana Cream Pie
5- Homemade carrot cake
6 - Homemade carrot cake
7 - Homemade carrot cake
8 - Homemade carrot cake
9 - Homemade carrot cake
10 - Angel Food cake
11 - Angel Food cake
12 - Angel Food cake
13 - Angel Food cake
14 - Angel Food cake
15 - Angel Food cake
16 - No cake, I was away at an internship
17 - Angel Food cake
18 - They forgot until last minute, stuck a candle into a croissant and called it a day. -
Although I like cake, I like bread pudding (no raisins) even more - that was my go to birthday cake growing up.
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@Arden: Awh, that's so sweet that you remember all the cakes! I hope to make LO's birthdays/cakes special enough that she'll remember each one later, too
And LOL about the croissant! I always had a regular grocery store cake... sometimes an ice-cream cake from Dairy Queen and I remember thinking that was so special!
When I got older, we started getting Costco cakes (except they're so ginormous, we'd need an army to finish it). MMM...cake...
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Here's my go-to birthday cake!
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we had the best birthday cakes because my mom's coworker was a part-time cake decorator. One year, my sister had this huge teddy bear shaped cake and I had this barbie princess cake, etc. This was the 80's before folks really did creative things with cake. I don't remember what the cake tasted like, but those cakes were so special!
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@HabesBabe: whoa...that's a HUGE cake
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Every single year I always get this one. I love it still!
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Usually a white grocery store cake with fresh strawberries.
mmmmm
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