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Stefanie - My mom always made my cakes, it would have to be the incredibly awesome Holly Hobbie cake…old school!!

Lifeoflinz.wordpress.com - Most memorable cake? The one my mom and little sister made for my 13th birthday party. Horse head shaped, freehand cut, and decorated beautifully with gumdrop flowers in her mane.

icitea - a dairy queen frozen strawberry cheesecake ! It took foreve to finish, but it was the best cake I ever had!

Kathi - When I was 27 and pregnant with my second child my husband had a surprise birthday party for me and had a cake decorated with a cartoon like pregnant woman on it to announce the event to our families.

Laura - Aw, I love that necklace! My mom made a lamb for my Nursery Rhymes 5th birthday. It was for Mary Had A Little Lamb. She went all out and did so many of the nursery rhymes for my party, but everything was handmade. We had so much fun. That was the most memorable birthday, and the cake was made with love.

Tara - I wish I could remember the birthday cakes from growing up, but there isn’t really a one that stands out. I’ve had more fun making them for my kids… and my favorite one is the RAINBOW CAKE I made for my daughter’s “Wizard of Oz” themed party… coming full circle to that necklace. OMG.. it’s stunning.. and an ever present reminder of the fun of all that creative time! (I’ve since had twins, and now we live off of Costco cakes that I’ve decorated the top of… ). I’d LOVE to win it!!

Katie - Definitely a barbie doll cake(s). I think I had two one year – one made by my Grandma and another from an aunt!

Jill - Well, I don’t remember any particular cake but…i do remember a rockin’ layered jello-y thing that looked a lot like that necklace. It was the seventies you know! ;D

Sophie - How cool is that necklace!!!
My most memorable cake was when I was 7 I think. My mum made me a gingerbread house cake and covered the tray it sat on with green jelly grass. Surrounding the grass were pink and white sugar mice with string tails which she had painstakingly made… Given that this was in the early 80s in Pakistan, it was a pretty stirling effort by mum!! Its also the only cake I actually remember so it was obviously a big hit!!

Lauren - My very first birthday cake was a bear. Nothing’s been able to top it yet!

Rebecca - I remember my mom making a Barbie birthday cake when i was little. The cake was her dress and she made it really fancy with icing. Another favorite birthday cake was a DELICIOUS chocolate cake with white chocolate cream cheese icing that a friend of mine surprised me with my senior year of high school. We had a choir concert on my birthday, and during our warm up she snuck up behind me with the cake while the whole choir started singing happy birthday! So sweet!

Ashlie - My aunt went to church with a lady that was a professional baker and always got her to make my birthday cakes. I had several neat ones but my two most favorite and memorable ones were a cake in the shape of Alf and another in the shape of a ’57 Chevy, turquoise! I was going through a vintage car phase for some reason. 🙂 I love that necklace, too sweet!!

Amber - My grandma made me a money cake, where there were hidden coins in the cake. I am assuming the coins were washed, and we were old enough that it wasn’t a choking hazard…..lol

jeanne - That cake necklace is CRAZY…so perfectly you!!! I love the Crazy Love book. I am still working through it. Some of the answers to your questions were killing me and the wedding photos were so sweet. When I was growing up everyone had cake in the basement of the church. Do you think we can talk our children into that and save tons of money??

Carol J - Favorite Birthday Cake was an Angel Food Cake with Glazed Frosting and those hard, candied Happy Birthday letters and Candle holder decorations that were popular back in the 50’s.

Beth - I would seriously love this. I do polymer clay. If I don’t win, could I please look at yours? I’d love to see it more up close and personal 🙂

Melanie - I was about 8 and totally into horses. My mom made a sheet cake and iced a horse on it. It was awesome. You rock mom!

Lori - One year my mom made me a present cake-complete with fruit roll ups as the ribbon 🙂

Heather R. - That IS the perfect necklace for you! I remember my 4th birthday cake being my favorite…Raggedy Ann cake. I got to sit on the table and hold it up to the camera. I think the flashbulb was a cube that spun around(how funny is THAT!). 🙂 ~Heather R.

Michelle Whitlow - that necklace is ADORABLE!!! I don’t really have a memorable cake but my most memorable birthday was at Farrell’s Ice Cream Parlor. Not sure if they were all over or not, I was living in MI at the time. I don’t remember much about the party other than I had fun. Kids didn’t have big birthday parties every year back then (or at least I didn’t) so it was very memorable!

Mary Beth - I was born in 1952 and the only cake I remember was a chocolate roll with ice cream rolled up in it…I don’t even know if it was homemade! I had a party and one of the little friends got scared and her mama had to come get her and take her home. Other than that, it was a good 5th birthday! Basically any cake with ice cream involved is my favorite! That little necklace is adorable! Thanks for sharing it with us!

lauralee - My mom’s famous sour cream cake is what her 7 children all request for anyone’s birthday still.
I love the rainbow one as an art teacher, I must have one!!
take care.

sarah - I remember almost all of my birthday cakes b/c, frankly, cake is one of my most favorite things in the whooooooole wide world. However, my most memorable cake was also my first flourless chocolate cake. My family and I were celebrating my 11th birthday on vacation in Quebec, so the cake was dessert after an amazing French meal. The entire restaurant sang to me in English but most of the people there had fantastic French accents! It was wonderful.

Shawnette - Love that necklace! My favorite was a rainbow brite cake from the bakery.

Tonya - an icecream cake made by my 4 year old son and my husband. sooooo sweet.

Angie - I had a Dukes of Hazard Birthday Cake when I turned 5. I loved it!

Melissa V. - Not sure what birthday, but my mom made me a Holly Hobbie cake. It was awesome.

Jen - I think my most memorable cakes are the ones I’ve had since we were married. I am not a huge cake lover so my sweet husband always gets me a HUGE Hershey bar and puts one candle in it. I LOVE it. And I LOVE the necklace!

Erin Kirby - hi meg!
thanks for the giveaway!
my favorite birthday cake was the first one i could remember, my third birthday cake. german chocolate cake with coconut pecan icing. mmmmm.
i want some now.
i guess pregnancy hormones will do that to ya!

Kelly O. - it’s not really the cake that I remember so much as my mom would wrap quarters in saran wrap and insert them in the sides of the cake before icing…
everyone that came to my birthdays knew to eat carefully 🙂
and they’d go home with $$!
it was win win–have your cake and $$ too!

Christina - That rainbow cake is too fantastic!
My favorite cake was always a chocolate pound cake that a woman at our church made for me every year because she knew that I loved it. It was sooo good. I don’t think I let anyone else eat it after the birthday party. haha

merlin - It was a cake my mother made for my brother, He might have been 9 or 10, it was a chocolate-mocha multi-layer cake. I knew she loved him best because of this cake. And I am so glad he had this divine cake, he didn’t celebrate very many birthdays after that.

Sarah - Normally, my mother (having 4 daughters) was the one to make the birthday cakes, plan parties with sleep overs, trips to Chucky Cheese etc. One year, for my 11th birthday my mom was working evenings at the hospital & my dad was given the task of baking AND decorating my birthday cake. It wasn’t anything fantastic, – it came out of a box – a randow bit better crocker cake, with vanilla icing and DINOSAUR sprinkles, but it was my dad who made it, which now when I look back on it, makes it my most favourite birthday cake experience!

Margo - Hands down has to be the Barbie doll cake my aunt made me when I turned 10! I still have the Barbie that she used and that was 25 years ago!

Rachael B - That necklace is so cute! It reminds me of the cake I made…

My favorite birthday cake was actually my 15th birthday because I had 15 cheesecakes! (I also had a very large party..)

ashley - Sadly I don’t have a memorable cake but I have seen pics of my first b-day cake and it was a rocking horse. Looks pretty cool in Polaroids.

Jacqui - chocolate coffee cake that my nana baked me when i was younger much younger!!

Kimberlee J. - My mom always purchased my cakes. I think Cookie Monster with a real chocolate chip cookie in his mouth was my most memorable.

Jill - My favorite cake was a bunny rabbit cake made by carving two 8 inch cakes into a face and ears, covered with coconut, with licorice whiskers and jelly bean decorations!

el - that is the CUTEST necklace! I would give it to my Mom if I won it, she loved the rainbow cake I made for her birthday. Crazy you are asking about favorite cakes because I was just talking about mine. Not sure what birthday maybe 12 but it was an ice cream cake and it was adorned with waffle cones filled with frosting; frosting cones! best cake ever, the frosting cones were my favorite part. I always tell my mom how grateful I am for that awesome cake I will never forget!

Valerie - i would soooo keep that necklace for myself. and if i won, i would actually finally attempt to make the real thing! 🙂
my favorite b-day cake might have to be the old-fashioned chocolate sheet cake. the type all the church ladies know how to rock. yum, yum!

Sarah @ Dream In Domestic - Oh my goodness! This has got to be the best giveaway I’ve ever seen – what an amazing shop!
Okay, so the cake I would choose isn’t a birthday cake, but it sure felt like my birthday when I ate it! My boyfriend went to Le Cordon Bleu Culinary school for an Associate’s Degree as a Pastry Chef. In his cake class, they had to create a cake based on some kind of theme. He picked a dream theme and made a layered cake (white cake and devil’s food every other layer) and made a homemade chocolate mocha filling to join the layers. He used a white buttercream frosting on the outside, topped it with chocolate shavings, and then baked some almond macaroons that he stuck to the side. It looked like fluffy clouds with chocolate on top! It was the best cake I have ever had! I hope that counts!

Trena - I can’t remember how old I was…probably 10, because I remember where we lived and we lived there when I was in Grade 4. I ALWAYS wanted a cake with money in it but my mom always said NO!…but one year she actually put money in…wrapped in waxed paper…quarters and dimes! I thought it was THE coolest!! She thought it was THE dumbest because all the money went to the bottom!

Juli - When I turned seven, my mother made me a birthday cake with my Madame Alexander doll carefully inserted into the middle of it. The cake was a half-sphere in shape, so it made the doll look like she was wearing a very full hoop skirt. Mom completed the illusion by piping intricate frosting designs on the cake and forming a frosting “bodice” for the doll, who wore a bonnet to complete the Southern Belle look. Fabulous!

Rachel - P.S. Have you seen this?!
http://blog.koldcast.tv/2010/koldcast-news/20-most-inventive-cupcakes-known-to-man/

Aimee - Mine was a minnie mouse and mickey mouse cake.. Just all the memories that go along with that cake made it my favorite..

Amy B. - In eighth grade, three friends threw me a surprise party and went all out to make a hamburger-shaped cake. I thought that was the coolest! Good memories!
Thanks for the giveaway!

Micah - Mine was when I was 11. It was my first double layer round cake from the bakery – with lots and lots of roses on top. I thought it looked like a mini wedding cake 🙂

adrienne - all of my b-day cakes were homemade and not decorated (believe me when i say that i was never disappointed… they were ALWAYS yummy!) but… at easter, mom would pick up a pink or yellow coconut decorated bunny cake with sugar candy ears and face. it was always my favorite and right around the corner from my b-day 😉

Amber - For as long as I remember I have LOVED antique jewelry. So for my 10th birthday my Auntie Diane made me a cake shaped like a girl. She was wearing a pink and yellow dress made of frosting of course and around her neck was my grandmothers antique pink pearl necklace GASP!! and I got to keep it!

June P - my favorite birthday cake was a chocolate fudge cake with chocolate frosting and sprinkles – for my 22nd birthday. 😀 adult enough to appreciate the chocolate, and young enough to not worry about the poundage.
thanks for the opportunity to win!

linnie - My most memorable birthday cake was when I was 3 or 4 and my mum made me a kitty cake. For my daughters 3rd birthday I made her the same cake but modernised the icing colours a bit.

shelly - I think my fav cake was a strawberry shortcake one when I had an awesome pool party in first grade–so maybe it was the party, but the cake was tasty too 🙂
Love that necklace!

amy - As a grown up, my mom always makes me german chocolate cake…but my farvorite cake was the one my boys made me this year. They are 4 and 7 y/o and they made a halloween cake for me (my bday is in december). It was absolutely adorable.

Valley + Madiga - We never had birthday cakes growing up! When I met my now ex husband (all sounds pathetic…LOL) his mom would make him a special cake on his birthday it was called a wacky cake….hmmmm I wonder being an ex mother in law and all if I could get that from her!!
So wacky cake it is!!!
Boy I may have to try that rainbow cake everyone is talking about!!
That charm would look nice on my neck!!!
hehehehehe

kat - My mother-in-law bakes the best chocolate cake ever!!! It is a family tradition now and we all request her chocolate cake for every birthday. After every little bite I breathe a sigh of delight. It’s heavenly.

emily - it wasn’t my cake, but my little brother had a full blown castle cake for his birthday one year… a few years later he wanted it again but when mom tried to make it again, it just fell apart. he took one look at it & said “its okay mom, this one is the castle ruins!”

Art Cant Hurt - i’ve heard the story of my 2nd birthday cake so many times that it’s my favorite – even though i don’t remember it!
my grandmother made a cake in a pan shaped like a clown face & iced it using bright blue icing for the body & bright yellow icing for the hair and they say i enjoyed A LOT of it.
the next day my babysitter called my mother at work frantic with worry – apparently my AHEM….’output’ for that day was bright turquoise and she was afraid something was wrong with me! haha!

Bethany - My birthday is in June and so most of the time my cakes seemed to be topped with strawberries growing up. Very seasonal. Because they all seemed to be slight variations of one another, none really stands out… until a couple of years ago. My sister made me a bundt cake. I was secretly disappointed at first because a bundt cake without frosting sounded dreadfully dry. (I’ve never been a fan.) And then I tasted it… it was so moist, so chocolaty, and so full of liquor. What a wonderful surprise!

Emily - It’s sad, but I can’t remember any of my birthday cakes. Sad. Hope I win this one though!

Megan McCulloch - My birthday is always around Thanksgiving, and one year when I was about 10 it was on Thanksgiving, so for dessert we had a GORGEOUS pumpkin shaped cake. It was beautiful and totally went with the food. :]

Maria Quackenbush - My Mom made me a unicorn cake when i was six. I loved that cake. by the way. i made your rainbow cake for my three year old on her birthday and she has been talking about it for 6 months…. it is so cute. This necklace would be so perfect for her!!!

Cathy - I honestly don’t remember any of my birthday cakes. It’s horrible. I do remember the cake I made for my nephew a few years ago. R2D2. It was a masterpiece. And that necklace is a masterpiece as well. Love it.

Melanie - I use to love ice cream cakes. Is that boring?

Tracy - I have a picture of my favorite cake – my 10th bithday just a regular chocolate cake with homemade frosting with a big #10 on the top that my mom made. Why was it my favorite…I was always very chunky and that year I lost a lot of weight and was really proud of myself (and my belts were huge!!) 🙂

Rosemary Gustin - The only birthday cake that was significant enough to remember were these really bright, colorful cupcakes that had clown heads on them. Looking back now, I think those seem pretty disturbing! LOL!
My favorite cake ever was our wedding cake. We did tiers of cupcakes for our wedding guests. Half of the cupcakes were white cake, and half were chocolate. The frosting colors were super bright. We had hot pink, bright blue, bright yellow, bright green. It was such a fun thing to do. Plus we got married at the zoo, so it wasn’t exactly what you’d call a traditional wedding!
I’d love to win that adorable little necklace! And if I won, I’d have to hope I could hang onto it after my little girl saw it! 🙂

Missy - Oooh, it had to be the pink princess castle with the ice cream cones for where the princess was kept from the dragon. I loved that cake!

Lynette - My favorite cake was my 16th birthday cake. My mom made a 2 layer round cake, frosted it, and then found tons of different kinds of candy and put them all over the cake for my “sweet 16”. We got to eat the left over candy for weeks after my birthday.

Megan - My favorite was for my 16th birthday… my aunt made a rich and creamy vanilla with vanilla frosting, decorated very elegantly, and topped with reall yellow and purple flowers!

Bobbie (Clumsy Crafter) - My mom made cupcakes in ice cream cones and decorated the tops to look like ice cream. She was cool before cupcakes were cool.

Mandi - My favorite birthday cake I get every year–a simple cookie cake from Great American Cookie Company. And my birthday is 2 weeks away, so I will be getting one soon!!

Sara - I don’t remember it, but the pictures of my carrot cake for my 1st birthday always make me smile.

Anja - I hope my favorite birthday cake will be the one I will make for my grandma and grandpa’s 80th birthdays in three weeks. I have been planning and trying things out for weeks (and settled for chocolate and rasberry) and I am determined to make it the best birthday cake in our family ever. I have tough competition, though since my grandma usually makes the greatest cakes!

pambuller - my favorite would be the cake my girl alex made for me the night we got home from africa. i can hardly remember it because i was so tired but they took pictures! and then we ate it all so she made another the next day so i could REMEMBER the taste. 🙂

beth buller - my momma made a horse birthday cake with a licorice bridle, frosting mane, frosting eyes and lifesavers to connect the bridle.
it was pretty but i wasn’t hungry that night and i never ate any of it.

april - last year my husband bought me a hello kitty cake…it was great!!!!

Tanya B - Such a cute necklace! My favorite cake was my 8th birthday — a purple Unicorn. Can you guess it was the 80’s? 🙂

Michele Raven - I still remember watching my mom frost what was to be my most favorite birthday cake ever. It was similiar to your rainbow one except it was all chocolate cake layers with different colored frosting. I thought it was the neatest cake ever!

Jodi - Ha! That’s easy. I do not like chocolate (I know, I know…I am not normal). Anyhow, my favorite memory (and it’s not a good one) is when my mom accidentally came home with chocolate cake for my birthday. I was devastated, probably because I was a bit of a drama queen. I will never forget that. My feelings were so hurt. LOL. Good thing I am over it! Such a cute necklace, my 3 y.o. will LOVE it. Great giveaway!

Heidi Jo the Artist - Awesome necklace! Lilac colored frosting with Easter M & M’s all over it! Birthday is always around Easter!

Julie - I celebrated my 18th Birthday on a cruise to the Bahamas and the night of my Birthday they served Baked Alaska cakes to each table. It was a wonderful Birthday!

Christy - Cute Necklace! My daughter turned 1 last year and I got a giant cupcake cake made it was awesome. Now I have to top that this year.
I also remember when I was little I had the round cake with the barbie in the middle and the cake part was her dress. I think every girl probably had one. I thought that was cool

Melissa Morrill - When I turned 19 my mom took me to Europe for my birthday and on the actual day she gave me a piece of cheesecake with a candle in it. We ate it at the base of one of Europes most famous castle Neswanstein.

Mitzi - I LOVE a good cake! 🙂 Yellow cake with chocolate icing is ALWAYS a winner…. and cupcakes, even better! I’ve had a Tweety Bird cake, and my sister and I shared a Cookie Monster cake when we were younger (our birthday are a week apart).

Kit - I don’t remember a favorite birthday cake, but I do remember my 7th birthday as being special, with a party and dress up games and fancy lunch out on the porch. Only in Arizona can you count on being able to have an outdoor lunch in November!
LOVE the rainbow cake necklace…I made that cake for my son’s 7th birthday last summer, thanks to you!

Suzanne D - My aunt made me a Holly Hobbie cake. It looked just like Holly Hobbie down to the dress. She was amazing with cakes!

Dawn - A checkerboard cake that my grandma made me! Loved seeing that pattern when she cut into it!
The rainbow cake has become a favorite at our house on many occasions!
Thanks for the great giveaway! 🙂

Nicole Q. - I’ve always remembered a Holly Hobby shaped cake that I had when I was probably preschool age. I went through a Baskin Robbins Ice cream cake stage too. Oh that sounds good right now!

Meredith - When I was in first grade my mother took me and a friend to see a shadow play of Charlotte’s Web. She also had a friend make me a Charlotte’s Web birthday cake it was amazing and I can still remember how special I felt!

virginia - wow! that is a sweet necklace! i would wear it on happy days. my most memorable b-day cake would have to be the 101 dalmatians cake that my mom made me for my 6th birthday. my big b-day surprise was going to the movie theater to watch that movie too!

Stephanie Carroll - I had a troll cake with troll dolls all over it- crossing a bridge and stuff. I think I still have the trolls 15 years later

Denissa - That is adorable!! My fav cake was probably when I was 22 and had a suprise party w/ a delish fancy chocolate cake.

michelle - when I was a little girl, Strawberry Shortcake, complete with a necklace for me!!

Kathrina - When I was 26, my husband came home from work and baked me a cake for my birthday. Nothing special, just a mix cake — he didn’t even use any frosting. But he did put the candles into the cake while the cake was still warm. When we ate it, there 26 big blobs of melted wax inside the cake. He hasn’t baked a cake since!

Summer - My parent always did a impressive job making memorable birthday cakes. My top would have to be the ‘Strawberry Shortcake’ cake when I was about.

Val - I don’t remember any special b day cake of my own, but… the coolest cake I made for one of my kids was……………. a rainbow cake! My youngest son’s last birthday (his 6th) I made him your rainbow cake. He loved it, and so did everyone else!

Michelle - My most memorable birthday cake was from the first year my husband and I were dating. He tried to make me an angel food cake with strawberries….and it turned out pretty bad. 🙂 I was impressed anyway.

Messy@Bungalow'56 - I remember a cake that my mom had hid money in. It was sooo exciting to eat. Luckily no on choked (the coins were wrapped in saran wrap)
Dana

Jessica Reed - Funny you should ask, my most favorite birthday cake was a rainbow birthday cake. I had a wizard of Oz themed party, and the cake looked just like that necklace. 🙂

Ashley - the year i turned 14, my mom was 9 months preggers. my littlest brother was born ten days after my birthday. i didn’t get a party or anything fancy(obviously:), so my wonderful friend Mattie threw me a surprise party. she lined little flower pots with foil, put ice cream in them, stuck a candy stick in it, and a cupcake on top. they looked like little flowers, so cute!! and so sweet!

sherry - Third grade–my Lovely Ladylocks cake. It’s actually rather creepy now…a girl with critters in her hair. 🙂
Fav now? red velvet or angel food…a bit of a contrast I know

Sarah@Clover Lane - Geez oh Petes! My mom just made a cake! Just a cake! Sometimes she put jelly beans in the frosting if she had some laying around. Sometimes she just let us pick the color of the frosting. Sometimes she said, “Would you like angel food cake, or just plain cake?” Sometimes she didn’t even ask! No fancy stuff…we had very simple birthdays growing up…and they were the BEST ever. I love her for giving me the LOVE of simple things. Like just plain CAKE!

Cara Kapp - Can’t really remember the best one – but the one that still stuck in my head is the plastic doll in the middle of the cake full of pink icing 🙂 with those silver balls all over and “yellow” hair. My mom wasn’t really a “Baker”!!

lisa - Not a cake. Last year my boyfriend made me an apple pie. I will never forget the shock and joy I felt when I opened the door after work to see him with an apron on, rolling out dough!

Natalie - We never had fancy cakes for our birthdays. Just sheet cakes but we always got to pick the flavor. I’ll never forget my last birthday though because even though I’m 25, my mom made me a red velvet cake just like I wanted and then as she was eating hers, dropped it on my white carpet. That stain will never let me forget!

Kara - Ugh, I actually can’t remember any birthday cakes – but mom had 5 kids so I’ll cut her some slack!!!! Love the necklace – will be making the cake with my 3 year old 🙂

sara jane - i must say. I LOVE CAKE. so pretty much every birthday and every reason for cake is my favorite 🙂

Milena - My most memorable birthday cake was for my 7th birthday. My mum made a cake looking like a house. It was hollow in the middle (like those one makes for Christmas). It was covered with cream and enormous amounts of small chocolates, candy, gummy bears and so on. Inside (after all the kids stripped the house totally – I have a picture where all off us have cream up to our elbows) there was a chocolate cake!!! Amazing! And so much fun!

Laura Dyson - My favorite birthday cake is a cake that I didn’t like as a little girl. I come from a big family, so when my birthday rolled around my mom got me a cake that she thought I really liked. I was 13 and my mom bought me a carrot cake! You know 13 year old girls — at the time I was so disppointed. But now I look back on it and laugh everytime. I will never forget that day and now I am a mother and completely understand how you can make mistakes 🙂 And with age I have grown to LOVE carrot cake.

Molly Pearce - When I was little my daddy would take me to pick out my cake each year! One year he surprised me with a mermaid cake! The icing was blue and green to look like the sea and it had little mermaids all over it. After my party was over I took all the mermaids out and washed them to play with them. Sadly they got lost when my daddy moved about 10 years ago. But I still remember his face when he brought me the cake with candles and saw how excited I was. Wish I was still 10 again with no cares in the world!
~Molly P

Tiffany - The cake I remember most was for my 10th birthday. It had elephants on it and said Happy Double Digit Day!
I was so proud to finally be in the double digits.

Ruth H. - THAT is an awesome necklace. So perfect for you!
My most memorable birthday cake wasn’t a cake. It was a pie. My mom bakes the best pies, so sometimes we requested pies for our birthdays. My husband was aware of this quirky tradition. Before my 30th birthday, he had a friend who baked teach him how to make pie. He made 6 pies, and threw a big surprise party for me with all of our friends. It was so fun to eat the yummy peach pie my husband made for me!

BriBedell - It was my seventh birthday (in April usually around Easter) and my mom made me two Bunny Rabbit Cakes! They were awesome they had licorice whiskers and jelly bean eyes! My birthday party was at a roller staking rink! All my little friends thought my mom was the coolest..well she still is 🙂 LOL

katie - When I was 6, I had an Angel Food cake with blueberries in it with blue icing. I always had angel food cake and blueberries were my favorite and, well, the icing HAD to be blue to match. There was a lot of blue and everyone found themselves dyed blue after eating the cake. It was hilarious and wonderful as a 6 year old. That has always been my favorite birthday cake.

Christy - My favorite b-day was #30. My DH & my sister threw my a surprise party, well they tried. 🙂 I found out about it, but it was still a blast. Lots of friends celebrating at a local pub & I didn’t find out till a week later I was pregnant with my son, after many years of waiting. Best b-day EVER!

Tracy - Are you going to share the recipe for the mint chocolate chip cheesecake????
My mom always made me cakes with money baked inside. I don’t think parents were as aware of choking hazzards as we are today :). She cleaned it at my dad’s dental office and mixed it into the batter. I miss that!

Amanda C. - My favorite birthday cake was when I was turning 14, I believe. It was in the heat of my NSYNC love and my mom got a cake that had their faces on it! You know, when photos are superimposed on cakes? That’s what it was. I remember asking for Justin’s face. Best cake ever. 🙂

amy d - ha ha ha…my favorite birthday cake was also a roller skate, with the cake donuts as wheels!!! i begged for that cake because cake donuts were (are) my favorite. mine was the “jogger” type roller skate…blue and yellow. next in line would have to be the bert & ernie cake though, because my mom cursed the whole way through it 🙂

emily - my 4th birthday . . . a strawberry shortcake cake!!!

Lori - My Gram baked me a train birthday cake for my third birthday. She had baked one for my dad too when he was little. I just found the pics the other day when I was going through some of his old pictures.

`Kelly - I love that necklace! I’ve made that cake so many times for different parties! I just made it two weekends ago for my niece’s Over The Rainbow party!
My favorite cake…I don’t remember any specifically. I do remember my sister getting one that looked like a cheeseburger. It was very cool!

Beth K. - My mom made all of my cakes until high school. Being an October birthday I had a lot of Halloween theme cakes – witches, etc. I had a pac man cake, Care Bear cake, a little house cake (my made this three times for us girls – crazy!), but I would have to say my favorite was a double layer cake with the best frosting on it. It had Charms suckers around it with their sticks wrapped in green paper and mint leaves at the bottom so it looked like flowers all around the cake.

Rebecca - that reminds me of the plastic charm bracelets and necklaces my sister and i used to wear and collect…how i wish i still had those for my little girl…favorite cake memory is actually for my son’s 5th birthday…it was a red and white circus tent and weighed so much that i could barely carry it in the house!! good times!!

Blanca - I wish I had one. Don’t ever remember ever having a cake for my birthday. Maybe that is why I make sure my kids never go without a cake on their birthdays. I take that back my niece bought me a mini cake about 2 or 3 years ago for my birthday.

amy jupin - shut up! you have your own jewelry line now??!!
this is so lame. my best birthday cake was a marble cake when i was maybe 8 or 9. i had never seen anyone make a cake like that before and i loved chocolate & vanilla swirl so it was perfect. i know, i’m so easily pleased.

Chris - Hummingbird cake – so delicious.

Molly - For my 12th birthday my mom made me this HUGE alligator cake. It was 3 feet long! It had this amazing bright green icing, red string licorice for the lips, candy corn for the teeth and different color and sizes of gummy candy for the eyes and toes. It was amazing! I LOVE to bake so many years later I decided I would try to make it. It took 4 hours to make and decorate this cake. I was so thankful that my mom took that much time to make me a cake so amazing!

crush. - mine wasn’t birthday cake but a first communion one – three tiers covered in pink and white frosting roses – I felt like a princess. 🙂

Jennifer - My dad used to be a cake decorator and one year he made me an awesome barbie cake, I was really young okay? lol Hopefully one day he’ll be able to make me my wedding cake.

Mindy Harris - my mom always let us request the kind of birthday cake we wanted. i chose chocolate pudding poke cake several years in a row. the cold pudding…yum!

Tracy - I always had a professional cake since my aunt made cakes…they were all wondeful and very pretty. But, one that sticks out was one my mom actually made for my friend party and it was a popcorn cake. It was so good!!! Now I make it for my kids…not for their birthdays but just because….and they love it!!!

Joni Lane - the best birthday cake was for my 16th surprise birthday party. my best friend made me a giant chocolate chip cookie and decorated it as a pizza. it was amazing…and DELICIOUS!

Sheila - A three tiered white cake with coconut flavored icing and tons of coconut! Probably sounds gross to some, either you are a coconut lover or you are not. I definitely am!

Anna Marie - It was a train with a load of sugar gum drops as cargo. It was so detailed! My great aunt made it.
How fun would her necklaces and earrings be to wear if you owned a little bakery?!? So stinkin’ cute!

Ariel - Once I was deemed “old enough” (my sweet 16) I received a Mocha Cake (only reserved for adults!) from the BEST bakery in town, The Village Baking Company! I felt like such a grown-up, such a woman eating my Mocha cake and knowing I would soon be going out for a drive with my Mom!

Lisa - I don’t know if this cake was the most memorable or just the only one that I remember 🙂
On my 8th birthday, which occurred on August 8th, and was my lucky birthday, I had a strawberry cake with strawberry icing that had little, dark pink flecks in it. I can almost
still taste it.

Kristen - My most memorable birthday cake was the first one my MIL made for me. Chocolate with vanilla frosting…my favorite, and so thoughtful of her 🙂

Megan - We always had ice cream cakes. I LOVE THEM to this day.

ckiser@chem-castltd.com - never had a cake, never had a birthday party; but if I would have, i would have wanted it to be a cake just like the necklace. that would have been amazing. i must do that for my daughter. what an awesome memory for her.

angela - I had a Brown Stone Front Cake every year on my birthday….with the caramel icing. Oh MY!!!

Katie - A multi-tiered confetti cake!

Brittney - My most memorable was not necessarily the best!
The best was the grasshopper (choc cake, mint buttercream) I had from a new local bakery last year.
But the most memorable was when I was about 12 and my mom surprised me with one of those photo cakes with a picture of my little brother and me on it. I was so mortified that he was on there, but I don’t think I ever told my mom that! As long as it tasted good it wasn’t soo bad!

Ayelet - my mom worked as a pastry chef for most of my childhood and for my 16th birthday she made me something that looked like it was out of a wedding magazine! it was white chocolate with strawberry swiss meringue filling and white chocolate frosting. sugar and gum paste flowers all over it…it was amazing! and it tasted sooo good too! it was perfect for the girly sweet 16 party I had 🙂

Ana - My most memorable birthday cake was prepared for my 8th birthday by my godmother, who was a professional baker. (I think that’s the only thing she ever did for me because I just never saw the woman!). Anyway, this cake had three tiers and on top sat a doll. Actually, the upper body of the doll was embedded in the cake to give the illusion that the cake was her dress, get it? Too bad nobody took a picture (we didn’t own a camera…), but it must have been memorable because I still remember that cake after 30 years!

Holly - That is just too cute! I never had a store bought cake, mine were always just ones my mom made and put swoopy swirls of frosting on them. I have made all my five kids cakes. Does that count. My favorite was a horse head and I used licorice for the reins.

miss lynn - total barbie cake.
the barbie was
stuck in the
middle and the
cake was a
beautiful gown.
i LOVED that
cake.
happy!

Shairee - When I turned 36 my in laws came to visit on my birthday (a 4 hr drive)! and my mother in law plopped a store brand yellow cake mix, store brand jello box, and store bought frosting on my counter. THEY WERE ALL PAST THE DATE OF SELL BY at lease 5 YEARS!!!! When I pointed them out to my husband and said please don’t let her make that…he called a friend of ours & got her recipe for a white cake with raspberry frosting. THEN HE MADE IT! (I think he’s cooked once in our 16 years of marriage). It was fabulous, tasty, and beautiful!

Elizabeth McDonald - My favorite cake was a monkey cake…my mom spent all day making it…and while she was picking up my grandmother…the dog ATE it..he was sick for a week!

Marley - Very cute necklace! My favorite birthday cake was one my mom made for me when I was 7 years old. It was a Barbie cake. My mom made a normal bundt cake but put a Barbie doll in the middle and made the cake part look like it was her dress! Very cool

Lacy Brauner - wow. om the first comment!! woohoo! hmmm…my favorit birthday cake?
my dad made me cupcakes for school one year. It was so sweet. My mom worked nights and things were rocky growin’ up, so dad did it:] he didnt want to wait between batches for the cupcake pan, so…..he put liners all along a cake pan. they were flat and misshaped, but I had cupcakes for everyone for my birthday. He knew my heart wouldve been broken if i didnt have them, so he tried!

Seattlemom - So sorry I missed the bid deadline. He is so cute! God bless you and all the girls on your trip. May you be a blessing to all you come across. I found your blog recently and it’s a blessing to me. Thanks!

Annie - Hi! I just found your blog & I love it and your home. PS – I also love your daughter’s name 🙂

Chalk Inscriptions - How can someone take a picture of eggs and it looks great! You are an amazing photographer – love it!

purejoy - ohmystars, so cute!! love love love this! if only all my $$ wasn’t going to the DR for my son’s mission trip to work with haitian refugees.

Staci Danford - That is the cutest thing.. I wanted to reach right in a run my fingers down his little face..
Staci

Kait - $55. We’re working on adopting a little boy from Ethiopia and this would be the most perfect doll for our son.

Annie - OK – I don’t know you – just found your blog from a friend, but I heart you. I heart your blog & all it’s colorful glory so much! Thanks for inspiring me today 🙂
~Annie

Amy Petz - 37

jeana - $35 Oh wow! I’m in love.

Heidi Jo the Artist - $25 AWESOME!

Micah - $15