It has been a long time since I had one but I don't recall it being horrible. What I remember was just a 1 layer vanilla cake with vanilla icing and a paper (maybe edible paper?) picture of Ronald and a yellow piped border. It was obviously frozen but it was thawed for the party. DD had her birthday party there probably about 10 years ago, and many of her friends were also doing the McD's party at that time. The one we would go to had a part of the restaurant decorated for birthdays all the time and the parties would be put in that section with a "party host" to keep the kids busy.