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[C.Ann]

Did you allow your baby to smash their cake with their hand, face, whatever?

We always had 2 cakes.. A small round one (the "smasher" ) and a sheet cake for the guests..

I had one that smashed it with her hand; one that smashed it with his whole face; and another that smashed it with both hands..

DGD did the "hand" smash and then wiped it all over her face..

Most precious photos in the world!

 

[Denine]

I did not buy 2 cakes. I just gave DD her piece of cake and she poked, very lightly at it with her finger.
DD has always hated getting her hands dirty. She will be 6 in a couple of weeks, and nothing has changed there!

 

[mamacatnv]

We didn't do a separate cake - they got their own piece. We didn't encourage them to smash nor did we push their faces into it. We let them eat it in their own way and took pictures of frosting covered mouths and hands.

 

[C.Ann]

We didn't encourage them to smash nor did we push their faces into it..

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No encouraging and no pushing.. One year olds are quite creative on their own..

 

[chicagodisneyfan]

I had one that smashed it with her hand; one that smashed it with his whole face; and another that smashed it with both hands..

DGD did the "hand" smash and then wiped it all over her face..

Most precious photos in the world!

I do not like it at weddings and I would not like it with babies either.

Have attended many 1st birthday parties and have not seen this!

I guess I do not get the point?

 

[DMickey28]

There are many places that will give you a free 'smash' cake with the first birthday sheet cake.

I made him one. It was just us and two friends for his birthday so we had something else for desert!! They are the best pictures, we also got him on video for the most of it.

 

[mom2boys77]

We do this in my family. They actually have a "smash" cake in the bakery. My older ds had an awesome time with his cake but younger ds not so much.

 

[PrincessPAC]

We always bought 2 cakes (including a little one for the baby), but the boys weren't very interested. My dd, though -- she had a blast! (Though I'm not sure that she ever actually got any in her mouth. ) Once she realized that she had an audience, she put on a show!

 

[DMickey28]

I do not like it at weddings and I would not like it with babies either.

Have attended many 1st birthday parties and have not seen this!

I guess I do not get the point?

I think the wedding cake and the first birthday smash cake are entirely different things.

The wedding cake someone else smashes it in your face and it shows a lack of respect to me.

The 'smash' cake on the first birthday is basically the same as a piece of cake but for once letting the child go nuts with it rather than trying to keep them clean as you might on any other day. Some choose to do it with a small cake rather than just a piece of bigger cake mostly because it makes for good pictures!!!

I don't think ANYONE would ever force a child's face in the cake nor force them to smash it by taking their hands. Letting a child experience it as they know how and letting the manners and cleanliness go by the wayside for one meal is/can be fun for them.

 

[C.Ann]

I do not like it at weddings and I would not like it with babies either.

Have attended many 1st birthday parties and have not seen this!

I guess I do not get the point?

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I don't care for it at weddings either..

Very common in our area - for years and years..

The point is to see just what they will do with it - if anything - and should they choose to do something with it, the photos are the cutest I have ever seen..

It's a matter of letting "kids be kids" - letting them safely satisfy their curiosty (like playing in the mud)..

 

[mamacatnv]

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No encouraging and no pushing.. One year olds are quite creative on their own..

Oh I agree except my idiot former neighbor, the one who pushed her 1 year olds face into his cake, and basically tormented him with it. He did not find it amusing.

I think the whole thing is fun, it would never have occured to me to provide a separate cake for the event, I think that is more of a recent trend.

BTW - I agree, not even comparible to the wedding cake.

 

[DMickey28]

 

[JB111107]

I got a free "smash" cake for first birthday cakes. My DD had it everywhere....but she loved every minute of it too...I always get chocolate and when it came time for them to eat, I just stripped them down to their diapers and a bib in their highchair and let them go at it.

My mom always baked our cakes, but for our first birthday, she made us each a big chocolate cupcake separate from the cake for us to go at.

 

[C.Ann]

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See? How much more adorable can photos get of your childs first birthday?

Beautiful baby - and beats a stuffy "all-dressed-up-can't-get-a-speck-of-cake-on-me" photo any day of the week!!!

 

[Michelle67]

Absolutely! Some of my most treasured pictures are my three kids decimating their first birthday cakes. No encouragement was ever necessary.

I don't like it at weddings, either, but that is very different to me.

 

[kpm76]

I do not like it at weddings and I would not like it with babies either.

Have attended many 1st birthday parties and have not seen this!

I guess I do not get the point?

I don't like it at weddings either, but 1st birthdays are totally different. One year olds have a mind of their own! As other posters have said, it's letting kids be kids. Some will throw their whole face into the cake while others will smash it with their hands. It's fun to watch!

I got a cupcake for DD and she had a blast with it. I was having a bit of a fit because I am pretty particular about what she eats but it was her birthday and she deserved cake

 

[DMickey28]

I got a free "smash" cake for first birthday cakes. My DD had it everywhere....but she loved every minute of it too...I always get chocolate and when it came time for them to eat, I just stripped them down to their diapers and a bib in their highchair and let them go at it.

My mom always baked our cakes, but for our first birthday, she made us each a big chocolate cupcake separate from the cake for us to go at.

Speaking of chocolate. I always assumed that I was going to make DS a chocolate cake because I love chocolate cake and white frosting. Just never crossed my mind to do anything different. There is a photo group I belong to and many of us had babies in the spring of 2007. A few used chocolate cakes and someone commented that maybe they should re-do the pictures with white cake because it looked like they got into their diapers!!! I never really thought of it until someone mentioned it ....

C.Ann - Thanks, we think he is pretty cute. I am kicking myself because I never did an official 'smash' cake 1st birthday photo shoot. For some reason I was not shooting much then.

 

[kpm76]

DMickey28...those pics are priceless! Alex is adorable

Here is Abby on her birthday in May.

 

[Michelle67]

Look, he even has it in his ears. LOL

 

[DISUNC]

My neice who turned 1 last year, had her own mini cake. Wal*Mart gives them away for free.
Anyhooooooooooooo she was sitting in her High Chair with just her Undershirt on......looking at us like..."Are you SURE I can do this?"
She would NOT GO FOR IT at all!!! She wouldnt even touch the cake till someone gave her a spoon!

That was a first in this Family!