Official Birthday/Anniversary Cake thread Part II

[Dolce27]

I turn 40 at WDW on the 11th. Is it tacky to order your own birthday cake? I'm a simple yellow cake with chocolate icing person, but do love buttercream icing It will just be my husband and I, don't know which cake to order? Also, if we don't eat it all, will they "pack it up" for us? We will probably be going back into the MK after we eat, so where could it be stored?

We will be having dinner at Artist Point, can a cake be delivered there? Or should it be sent to the room? We are staying at All Star Sports. If I send one to the room, and we are not back until late ( like midnight) will it be at the front desk, or brought to my room and waiting for us to eat when we are done enjoying the MK?

Trust me: it's fine. I ordered my own - the one I posted a picture of above. I wasn't going to have it say "Happy Birthday" b/c I was the one doing the ordering. I was going to have it say something like "Celebrating a Birthday" but the CM cut in and asked if I wanted it to say Happy Birthday after finding out that it was for my birthday so I went with it.

I celebrated my birthday last Monday night at Spoodles. I had a 10” vanilla cake with (I guess is it ganache?) icing and strawberry mousse filling. The cake was very good. It was from the Boardwalk Bakery. I decided that I didn’t want buttercream icing; I worried that it would be too sweet and filling after having already been on a Disney diet for a week. They lowered the lights and the servers brought it out to me singing Happy Birthday. I had also ordered 8 chocolate covered strawberries – one for each of us. Those were on a side plate and weren’t decorating the cake.

Do you mind telling me how much this beautiful cake cost you? It looks just what I am looking for.

Honestly, I can't recall the exact price right now. The 10" cakes start at $45.00. There are more choices for it than what they offer. They won't customize a 6 or 8 inch cake - it has to be the 10" and even then they only offer a few options. You have to tell them what you want. For icing they only offered buttercream or whipped. I originally ordered the buttercream but then decided on the ganache after seeing other cakes posted on this thread. I was connected to the chef at the Boardwalk Bakery and she didn’t think she could do that. I had to e-mail her pictures of other cakes already done.

The white chocolate Mickey Mouse was around $20.00 and then it was at least another $20.00 for the strawberries – maybe even closer to $40.00 as there were eight strawberries. Then there is tax and maybe gratuity for having it served at a restaurant?

 

[Mrs Hobbes]

Well I've been lurking about this thread for almost a year now, looking at your cakes and drooling

I called the cake hotline today and order our Valentines cake for our dining reservation at the cali grill. There will be 8 of us eatting there, 4 adults and 4 children. I didn't want to go over the top because we have already splashed out on a wishes cruise this night too so i've order the following.

8" cake - vanilla with white chocolate frosting, a silk screen of Mickey adn Minnie in a heart and Happy Valentines Day written on the top. It came to $42+tax.

The ordering process was painless, I got straight through to a cm and was done in about 5minutes

I will post pictures when I get back from our trip

 

[chell]

It does look very good. What was not good about it? I know my dn can't have milk or eggs and his cakes do seem to be just a little off. They are not bad, just not what I am expecting when I bite in to a cake.

The texture was thicker than you expected and lacking flavor. I've heard of people getting egg-free cakes that were great. To me it mostly seemed like watered down chocolate.

 

[BridetobeDisney]

I posted this way back on page 16 -
We stayed at AKL in May and I called the resort directly and spoke with In-Room Dining prior to our arrival. I gave them our check-in date and a rough estimate as to the time (not sure that they needed that) and was told that after we checked in they would be notified by the front-desk and our goodies would arrive shortly thereafter. We checked in, got up to the room and then within 15 minutes we got a call to see if we were going to be there for the delivery. If you do this they can put the charge on your resort bill and have you sign for it when they deliver it. Be forewarned that they will have already added a 18% "delivery" charge to the cost of your goodies so if you don't read the receipt you might be tipping twice.

This was what we had delivered:

Wow that's so cute! I went back to your original post to find a price and that's really expensive! Even though it's adorable I don't think I can spend that much on chocolate and cookies. Thanks so much for sharing. I wish I could get that though.

Are they still making the zebra cake at AKL? Is it good?

 

[Whipperwhirl]

DD 9th birthday at 1900 park fare 12/29 - It tasted and looked wonderful - She clearly loved it - I just wish two things -

1 - I wish they would have let me make the cake smaller - so much went to waste - I would have been happy to pay the same for a smaller cake.

2 - I wish I made the color clear - I really wanted a green / garden fairy type cake.

 

[Whipperwhirl]

BTW - This cake was not a budget option - it was $130.00 before our TIW discount - $104 after. We definately went for the impact - and we ate it for breakfast the next two mornings! Whip

 

[katieam1]

That cake is so amazing!! Your DD looks so happy!

 

[katieam1]

Has anyone ever ordered a cake at HDDR?

 

[TravelinGal]

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[DeeCee735]

DD 9th birthday at 1900 park fare 12/29 - It tasted and looked wonderful - She clearly loved it - I just wish two things -

1 - I wish they would have let me make the cake smaller - so much went to waste - I would have been happy to pay the same for a smaller cake.

2 - I wish I made the color clear - I really wanted a green / garden fairy type cake.

First i want to say, wow....this is gorgeous. Second I want to say I'm very glad your darling daughter loved it....and third, I have to say thanks! Because now I finally have it! We are celebrating our 25th anniversary next Monday at the Yachtsman Steakhouse and we wanted to get a cake with some options, so even though we are just a party of 5, we went with a 10 " cake (we figure we'll be there for the week, so most of it will go) because we wanted the white buttercream icing with raspberry mousse filling. So I was going to call to order just that today, thinking "okay so it won't be all that in decorations - it'll just be standardish", but now that I see this, I'm going to call tomorrow and ask if they'll use fresh flowers to decorate the top! So thanks! What a great idea.

We will stick with a white buttercream icing, and we want to go with (if possible) mostly silver and blue, since the 25th anniversary is the silver anniversary, and blue because our colors were blue and ivory when we got married.....so I'll ask if they can use fresh flowers but try to get these two colors somewhere on the cake! I really hope they can do it, now I'm excited!

 

[TravelinGal]

First i want to say, wow....this is gorgeous. Second I want to say I'm very glad your darling daughter loved it....and third, I have to say thanks! Because now I finally have it! We are celebrating our 25th anniversary next Monday at the Yachtsman Steakhouse and we wanted to get a cake with some options, so even though we are just a party of 5, we went with a 10 " cake (we figure we'll be there for the week, so most of it will go) because we wanted the white buttercream icing with raspberry mousse filling. So I was going to call to order just that today, thinking "okay so it won't be all that in decorations - it'll just be standardish", but now that I see this, I'm going to call tomorrow and ask if they'll use fresh flowers to decorate the top! So thanks! What a great idea.

We will stick with a white buttercream icing, and we want to go with (if possible) mostly silver and blue, since the 25th anniversary is the silver anniversary, and blue because our colors were blue and ivory when we got married.....so I'll ask if they can use fresh flowers but try to get these two colors somewhere on the cake! I really hope they can do it, now I'm excited!

I could be wrong here, but I think those flowers are made from sugar/frosting/ I don't think they are fresh flowers. That said, I don't see why they couldn't put fresh flowers on a cake...

 

[Whipperwhirl]

I could be wrong here, but I think those flowers are made from sugar/frosting/ I don't think they are fresh flowers. That said, I don't see why they couldn't put fresh flowers on a cake...

You are welcome - but they were indeed sugar flowers - yummy - delicate - completely real looking sugar flowers. The cake was marble with white chocolate filling and stayed moist for days in the fridge.

 

[Dolce27]

DD 9th birthday at 1900 park fare 12/29 - It tasted and looked wonderful - She clearly loved it - I just wish two things -

1 - I wish they would have let me make the cake smaller - so much went to waste - I would have been happy to pay the same for a smaller cake.

2 - I wish I made the color clear - I really wanted a green / garden fairy type cake.

The cake turned out amazing! That's the same night that I had mine at Spoodles.

Note to everyone else: If you want an awesome cake like that - eat at the Grand Floridian. Their bakery is the most willing to do a creation such as this. I think the Yacht Club bakery is the next most willing. I was shot down pretty quickly when I attempted to mention anything really creative to the Boardwalk Bakery for my cake. The standard response was along the lines of the Grand Floridian was the bakery capable of performing those feats and not the other bakeries.

My cake was still wonderful, however. It was fresh and moist and really good. After e-mailing a pic to the chef, I was able to get the icing that I wanted. If you have to use one of the other bakeries, the cakes are still good … just may not be as creative looking.

Has anyone ever ordered a cake at HDDR?

I ate at Hoop Dee Doo for my first time last week. I loved it. I don't recommend attempting to have a cake there. They do serve strawberry shortcake for dessert and it's quite yummy.

I'd pick another night to have a cake at a restaurant that can accommodate it better. I had my cake on the 29th instead of my birthday the next night as for my birthday I was eating at a non Disney owned restaurant in the West Side of Downtown Disney.

 

[Tinker*Shell*Bell]

Whip- I remember you starting to plan that cake! It turned out absoluely perfect! I am glad your DD loved it, and even more thrilled that you loved it.

 

[iheartdisney]

What kind of cake would be at Coral Reef? And is it too much for 2 adults and 3 kids?

 

[TravelinGal]

Please forgive me for not reading every page of these 2 threads... They are long! WOW!


We are celebrating my DH's birthday with a Wishes Cruise. We are departing from the Poly. I would like to have a cake on the boat for him.

Does Poly have their own bakery, or would we have to order from GF? We are staying at GF (but we are having dinner at Ohana that night - hence the departure from Poly instead of GF.) Anyway, I want it to be a surprise, so I don't want to have to pick it up and take it over.
If I order from GF will they send it to the Poly pier? OR???? I don't want to pay some insane delivery charge on top of the cake cost!

What options do we have?

We'll have 7-10 people (currently, 4 adults and 3 children) on the boat. I don't want a bunch of cake left over.

I ordered the decorations for the boat already.

Thanks for any help you can offer!

 

[jenjersnap]

You are welcome - but they were indeed sugar flowers - yummy - delicate - completely real looking sugar flowers. The cake was marble with white chocolate filling and stayed moist for days in the fridge.

You are the first other person whose celebration cake had those gorgeous flowers besides the one we had at the Poly in 2007 - that I've seen. Yours was a zillion more times beautiful than what the more limited Poly bakery could do ... though we still loved ours which was designed and made by an intern, lol. I've never understood why they don't use those more!

 

[applechips]

We celebrated my birthday at 1900 Park Fare on Monday December 15, 2008. My husband ordered a cake for me (with my prodding and cake ideas) and our server brought out this ginormous 10" cake! Even with 4 adults and 2 kids eating it, it was way way too much cake.

It was beautiful though, I wanted to cry. It was outstanding confectionary work, IMO. White chocolate Cinderella slipper with truffles inside and sugar roses that were decorated with an iridescent pixie dust! Even the flower petals were sugar!! Then on the sides there were mickey sprinkles, buttercream roses and more hard sugar roses in purple. It was so beautiful I didn't want to eat it! It was a vanilla cake with vanilla buttercream.

When we got a cake for my son's birthday last year I noticed that the "buttercream" really wasn't buttercream but shortening and sugar, with no hint of butter to be found and I really didn't care for it. Dh asked that the buttercream be less shortening and more butter but they said they couldn't accommodate that as its mixed in huge vats and is the same for all of them. He also asked for the cake to be *only* two layers of cake with ONE layer of icing to avoid being overloaded on the icing but they seemed to either have forgotten that request or did not do it for whatever reason. The last pic shows the layers, there was another layer of cake on top of that piece, but I had eaten it already!

Nonetheless it was gorgeous !!! As for the taste, eh, it was ok. It wasn't the best tasting cake I ever had unfortunately. I wish they'd improve the cake and the buttercream flavor. Oh well what can you do, it was a nice cake and we had a good time! We paid $95.00 for it, and I think that included the 18%.

 

[4nana]

DD 9th birthday at 1900 park fare 12/29 - It tasted and looked wonderful - She clearly loved it - I just wish two things -

1 - I wish they would have let me make the cake smaller - so much went to waste - I would have been happy to pay the same for a smaller cake.

2 - I wish I made the color clear - I really wanted a green / garden fairy type cake.

One of the most beautiful OTT cakes I've ever seen!! Your sweet DD must have been on ! Thx so much for sharing!

Princess Shan Shan, Meelee's Mom, Dolce27, lacross lady 72, Chel and Tinkerbell , love your very special creative cakes too!! Great job!!

Please forgive me for not reading every page of these 2 threads... They are long! WOW!

We are celebrating my DH's birthday with a Wishes Cruise. We are departing from the Poly. I would like to have a cake on the boat for him.

Does Poly have their own bakery, or would we have to order from GF? We are staying at GF (but we are having dinner at Ohana that night - hence the departure from Poly instead of GF.) Anyway, I want it to be a surprise, so I don't want to have to pick it up and take it over.

If I order from GF will they send it to the Poly pier? OR???? I don't want to pay some insane delivery charge on top of the cake cost!

What options do we have?

We'll have 7-10 people (currently, 4 adults and 3 children) on the boat. I don't want a bunch of cake left over.

I ordered the decorations for the boat already.

Thanks for any help you can offer!

The Poly bakery can make almost any cake you want, our family ordered 2 BD cakes for Spirit of Aloha dinner show ~ pls see pg 119/post 1778. Sorry the pix are not better, it was very dark at dinner. They were large enough to feed an Army and our family of 17 only ate 1/2 the 10" and none of the MM till next few days! Thankfully Poly boxed it all up for us. If you don't want any left overs, I'd suggest the 8" will be plenty. You can order from Poly # on front pg of this thread.

Hope you have a blast on your 'Wishes' cruise! We did the 'Wishes' Grand 1 Yacht cruise from the Poly and it was definitely one of the high lites of our grand gathering Thanksgiving tirp we will never forget! Best wishes and have fun!

 

[krolyat]

Anyone have any ideas for a cake, slipper, Micky or anything else they offer at the CG? Neither of us are big cake eaters but I just wanted something simple that says "Welcome back". I was thinking the Micky with his arms open with the strawberries but I thought I read that was $50+ (ouch a bit expensive). Any other ideas are greatly appreciated.