Do you bake your family's birthday cakes?

A bit of both. I love decorating cakes creatively for my kids birthdays but am not very good at the baking part. I now buy a ready-made plain sponge cake from the supermarket and then decorate it myself - like this rocket ship birthday cake. No-one seems to notice that I didn't actually bake the cake myself :-)

by Jane

My hobby is making cakes and I always make cakes for family & friends.

by Sharm Jay

DID you Make this one?

I did Jorja. For a friend's 50th. She just adores peacocks:)

You have my vote, that cake is nothing short of AMAZING!!! and you have a great deal of talent, well done!! :)

That's amazing!

Sometimes I do. It depends how much time I've got and what kind of a cake the person having the birthday wants. If I know I can do a good job of it, I will do it myself. If there isn't enough time to get it right, I head for a cake shop.

by Sarah Bell

This year I made a cake for my son for his party and bought one from the shop for him to take to his kindergarten. I normally do try and make one myself as I love baking and its a good time to experiment with new designs and icing etc.

by helenonthesofa

Yes; for the last two or three years I ave baked my parents and grandpa a birthday cake. Problem is, it is not much of a surprise because we live in the same house!

by Bryony Harrison

For my son I bake cakes every day or when it's a friend's special birthday then I also bake them, but the rest of the time I generally buy them.

by Ivana Katz

I buy Pavlova every time.

It's Australian
It's divine
it's a time saver

by jonaja

I can do basic cakes (square or round ones) for small family celebrations. If something bigger or more sophisticated is needed I'd get a professional or a willing helper from my family to do it. My sister-in-law baked a fantastic rainbow layer cake for my daughter's third birthday. I'm still learning, so I might be able to make some fancier kids' party cakes with practice.

by Jennifer Muirhead

A combination of baking and buying from a patisserie. It depends on how much time and what the family member wants.

by Justine Crowley

I am not expert in baking the cakes.But I would love to do that.

by Radhika

I used to bake a lot, but the house we are in now has a terrible oven which burns things on one side, so I have stopped baking. But when I did bake, I used to get a lot of requests for cakes from my friends, whether it was a birthday party or another occasion.

by Happy Mom

Yes, I like to do Baking

by megha

I can still remember my son carrying a castle cake to school in Grade 2 to share with his classmates. Its pic is one of many throughout the family album that I baked for my two kids over the years. The ORIGINAL Women's Weekly birthday cake book was my bible. I have passed it on to my daughter. May she have as many scary moments as I did. While living in Sydney, the weather was so hot that the clown's face melted and it looked as though he were crying. Very Pierrot. Nowadays it's a chainstore or Cheesecake Shop job.

by grann

That clown cake was the very first fancy cake I tried!

When my girls were little I used to they loved telling me what they would like and me trying to create it 😊 I still do now if I have the time 😊 I even made my neice a sponge bob cake 👍

by aussi

Is there a recipe for this luscious looking cake? I want to make it.

by pamg

Yes, I always make my kids'birthday cakes. I have three boys, 9-5-2 respectively. They all have their birthdays in June; the first and third on the third of June and the second one on the 23rd of June. So, I make three cakes simultaneously. I save a fortune, it's a lot of fun and I make precisely the cartoon characters the love. The compliments I get from everyone makes every moment worth it.

by rika.

Yes I always bake my own cakes as love cooking.
That photo looks "oh so good" of the cake!

by Finy

Absolutely, I love getting creative in the kitchen!

by Ali's Wonderland

Although I love to bake, this is one thing I don't do. The only other family member in my household is my wife, and we would rather spend the day out doing something instead of baking. We both have a favourite cake that we can get at the local bakery, so that's what we do.

by DamienR

Yes, when my children were little!

I'll now bake a 'White Wings' packet mix occasionally, especially if someone to coming to morning, or afternoon tea!

by donjo

When the children were younger I made all sorts of different cakes for their birthdays. Nowadays I just make cakes and buy an expensive one from an Italian patisserie, or one of my daughters organises for a made to order cake from someone she found on the internet who makes and decorates amazing obes.

by helga

Sometimes, most of the time we order the cake from outside. Although I love baking and decorating cakes.

by sns

No, because we don't really make a cake. We eat cake very rarely.

by silvi