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I have, on occasion, baked my own cake. But I have a twin, and usually we share a birthday and a cake. On the last few birthdays someone else has purchased one for us - either an ice cream cake or a store cake (I am really partial to cassata cake or carrot cake).
When I was little we always had homemade cake decorated to look awesome, and it was much better than our local grocery store could do.
Good luck to you with the baking!!
my birthday means i dont cook/bake so yes, give me cake and lots of it! usually we have a office cake (because we are cake ho's) and hubby usually has a tiny cake or we go out (dessert) for dinner
i bake weekly and im a scratch baker - had to justify my KA mixer somehow so i bake for my office
ive saved cake#2 link - i think im going to try that
I bake box cakes about once a week, since my FI is in love with cheap box cake and cake in general.
As a kid my mom made my birthday cakes, and now that I live away from home, my FI's family buys them for my birthday.
I think you should make cake #2 because of the coffee inclusion!
I love an reason for cake. Here is my personal fav choc cake recipe! It is super rich and moist and while it doesn't have your typical frosting on it, it is amazing!!
Camie's Buttermilk Chocolate Cake
Bring to Boil:
2 sticks butter
1 C water
3 TBS cocoa powder
Mix while above is coming to boil:
1 tsp baking soda
2 C flour
2 C sugar
1/2 tsp salt
2 tsp vanilla
1/2 C buttermilk
Pour hot mixture into flour mixture and stir well. Bake in cake sheet pan at 350 until done, 20-30 minutes.
For Frosting:
Bring to boil:
3 TBS cocoa powder
6 TBS buttermilk
1 stick butter
Add 1 LB powdered sugar once boiled. Mix and pour over warm cake.
It is AMAZING. I wish I had buttermilk cause I really want to make it now.
Growing up we did birthday pie b/c none of us really liked cake.
My family does dinner and cake for everyone's birthday no matter what, we go out to dinner and go back home for cake. It's not an option in my family, we're not allowed to grow out of it ;)
I often make my own birthday cake. I'm a good baker (from scratch, I don't believe in packet mixes) so I do cakes for lots of occasions.
All of the above. Each year it's something different, depending upon who's in charge. Kids used to make a box cake for when they were younger, daughter is a good baker and will occasionally bake from scratch. DH would never attempt to bake anything and would ONLY purchase something. My mom used to bake for me from scratch when she was alive. Teenage son works at DQ so of course last year I had a DQ Ice Cream cake.
My sister's birthday is 7 days before mine and my bro's 2 days prior, so by the time mine comes no one really cares anymore. I haven't had a cake in over 5yrs and it was cuz FI bought me one.
Every year I have a DQ ice cream cake I am a august baby (the 2nd) So Ice cream cake is ALWAYS nice to have with the heat!
I get a cake every year whether I make it (usually from a box though I have made cakes from scratch), someone else makes it (my sister is a baker so it's always from scratch :)), or we buy one. Bithdays aren't complete without cake IMO.
Yes! This year my husband got me a DQ ice cream cake & my mom bought me one from a bakery. :-)
One year I got 8 cakes. 
Usually, I'll get one cake from a high-end bakery and I'll also make one from scratch.
Usually my mom makes me an awesome cheesecake (from scratch) or one of my favorite pies.
DH will cook me a cake out of a box, a flavor that I love, which is plenty good enough for me... He's not much of a bake-it-from-scratch kinda guy. <3
We usually do cake with my family. Although if that were ever not feasible... I would probably do cake for myself.
I mean, come on... It's cake. ;)
Typically storebought, but sometimes homemade. One year my mom put beautiful sugar flowers she'd made a while ago on them. I hated eating them, but loved how special it made the cake.
hell yes i do cake! i am a b day snob. i get an ice cream cake from baskin robbins and my son makes me a cake from scratch every year now. FI helped this year:)
My family still gets me a cake on my birthday. I know it is a little childlike, and I am turning 30 in a week, but I love it and I am not embarrassed about it at all! :)
@onyx81: I turned 30 this year and this was my cake:
Having cake on your birthday is so not childlike :) Embrace it!
We've always done cake for birthdays, usually homemade. My mom always baked us one when we were kids because we couldn't afford to get store-bought ones.
Homemade is always yummier anyway.
I always want cake but i rarely get it!! :( FI has always gotten me a treat, but I want a cake, damnit! Maybe I will make one myself next year, lol.
Since owning a Kitchen Aid mixer, I bake cakes from scratch although I still love the ease of a box cake. It is expected that you bring a cake to work on your birthday so I bake for myself. I'll be baking DH some birthday cupcakes tomorrow.
I think birthday cake is a birthday staple that no one will ever grow out of. =)
I get ice cream cake every year!
My aunt makes me pudding cake! If I find the recipe I will post it...it's layers of pudding, crust (the good crumbly pie kind), Heath bars, and something else. It's amazing!
I get FI an ice cream one every year. He doesnt even pay attention to his presents, he is so happy with the cake.
I would only have a cake if someone made it for me. Some years I'm in a situation where that would happen, and other years, like this year, I wasn't.
I've never baked my own birthday cake and sometimes I don't have a birthday cake. Usually if I go to my dad's or mom's house for dinner around the time of my birthday they will do a joint cake for me and DH since are birthdays are so close together.
My sister makes fancy cakes here is a link if you want to see examples http://traciscakes.fujionigiri.com/ .But since I moved away I don't get cakes anymore for my birthday :) My favorite kind of cake is cheap box yellow cake and chocolate icing anyway, so I make it myself!
@tea: That's quite the beautiful cake!
Well for the most part it looks like everyone has a cake or atleast wants one so I don't feel bad having one myself! I'm still not certain what cake I'll bake.
I love cake and I love baking! And since I currently live far away from relatives and friends, I bake my own.
But when I lived close or if I visit near my birthday, other people bake for me.
They are almost always made of boxed cake mix.
my mom always made our bday cakes growing up. Ive made my own cakes on occasion but DH ALWAYS buys me a chocolate cheesecake sampler for me. (the big one with a bunch of diff types of choc cheesecake...MY FAVE!
Other: I don't really like cake! Unless it's ice cream cake, super decadent chocolate cake, or maaaaaybe funfetti, I'd rather not eat it. I'm all about celebrating though, whether cake or some other kind of dessert is involved!
After a certain age, I had to make sure to request a cake from my parents, otherwise they wouldn't get me one. Luckily, my husband knows that at my birthday, I will always want cake, no matter my age. :)
I made myself the best pineapple upsidedown cake ever for my birthday this year. It was fantastic! I made my FI a strawberry cake and a pumpkin cheesecake for his. Cakes are a must have for all birthdays, young or old!
It was my birthday yesterday (hooray!), so DH ordered me a cake from a bakery. My mom always bakes me a cake from scratch as well, so I had one of each :) I'm spoiled.
The best chocolate cake from scratch I've ever made was one with coffee in it, so I'd say that Black Magic Cake would be perfect. I find the coffee brings out a really rich depth of flavour in the cocoa without being able to taste the coffee. I really love the base to cupcakes #24 and 16 on this site, they're my staples for chocolate cake :) The recipes are for 1 dozen though, so if you were going to use it for a cake I would double the recipe.
My mom makes the BEST chocolate frosting, she says she goes to the bulkfood store and buys a bit of each type of cocoa and then mixes them together. It's the best ever. I love it.
@bakerella: I should have known how excited you'd be to reply to this thread. :)
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So my birthday is in the next week and I'm figuring out what sort of cake I want. I wouldn't bake/purchase one generally but I have family coming into town for it and it's important to them to have a birthday cake. Nothing against bakery-purchased but I think I'm at an age where I'm capable of baking my own cake so right now I'm collecting recipes.
So do you bake your own birthday cake? Does a relative? Do you cheat and use a box mix? or Do you go with a store-bought? Do you skip the cake on your birthday?
Right now I'm torn between two chocolate cakes to bake from scratch.
Cake 1
Cake 2