I love making my own cake!! It's exactly the flavor I want and the design I want. Plus, if I want to try a new flavor or a new technique it's a great opportunity. Once a few years ago my sisters thought they'd "save me the hassle" and told me not to make a cake. They bought on at Safeway!!!

Have a great time making your cake. Have a Happy Birthday!!!

I am making mine this year! I don't think of it as being sad but as getting to do any design, colors I want to do! YAY!!

I will be 30 this year too (eek!)
But luckily, my sister is as good of a baker as I am, and she usually makes my birthday cakes. If she didn't, I would absolutely do it myself! I won't eat store-bought cakes anymore. I think you made a good choice!
Have a nice birthday!

No not at all. It means you have control issues like me Hahahaha If I actually could handle having a birthday party I would probably end up alienating everyone & throwing it for myself. I am so bad, it HAS to be my way.

I think when we make ourselves things we figure "why don't we deserve the love, time & effort that everyone else gets on their special day" if we don't do it who will.

Nothing wrong with it! I would, but every year since I was like, 8 (I'll be 26 V-Day) I've gotten a Cathys strawberry rum cake, each year. I gotta be honest. I LOVE my cakes, and know I can have exactly what I want.. But theres no way I can make something that could be in comparison to a Cathys strawberry rum! YUMMY

I know you busters aren't concerned over a 30th birthday. 30's the new 20

When I first started decorating cakes DH bought me an undecorated cake - just iced - from the store for me to "play" with for my birthday. I loved it! I rarely eat cake anymore so it was perfect. He normally gets me a piece of carrot cake from the Cheesecake Factory but I think I will skip that this year because they started skimping on the icing - yum.

I wish I would have gotten into cake decorating sooner because I turned 21 last year and I looked everywhere for the perfect cake but nothing seemed right. My parents were not going to spend a fortune on my cake so I settled for a grocery store cake that looked like a monster. I asked for it pink but I had no idea it would be hot pink. They put so much coloring in it that we could not eat it. It tasted terrible. My birthday is in June and I am already thinking about what I am going to do for my 22nd birthday cake!

last year was my 50th bithday, so my work partner contacted my cake partner and they planned a birthday party . my cake partner usually only bakes and makes the icing (which she does fabulously)....this cake put her out of her comfort zone, but it was great for somone else to do the cake for this big day....if i can't have my cakes, i want a Cold Stone Creamery birthday ice cream cake....yum sweet cream ice cream.

A couple years ago I made the grapevine wreath cake in my gallery for my birthday. Coconut cake with chocolate bc icing. I took it with me when we went to visit my daughter and her boyfriend. They ooed and aahed over it and took pictures of it with their camera phones so they could show others and then she put it in the refrig. (I thought it was so the dogs wouldn't get into it while we visited) We never did get served any of the cake. I guess she assumed I'd made it just for them. Guess next time I'll have to come right out and say this is for all of us to eat tonight and you can keep what's left. The kicker was that I found out later the boyfriend doesn't really care for coconut.

I never bake my own cake, if i was having a big party i would, i just dont ever have a big party so DH and our DDs make me a little cake. This year i got real lucky, my dad made me a cake and brought it over, my mom made me a cake and brought it over, and my hubby and girls made me a cake. Yes, i was totally sick of cake but appreciated each one. Another reason i never make my cake is B/C my Bday is the same as my moms, so she makes me a cake and i make her a cake. Sweet, right? Happy Birthday. Sweetlayers your story was great!

Wonderful b'day cakes--and no, it's not sad! But I think if we bake our own b'day cakes, we should put "Happy Birthday to ME!" on it!

My birthday is coming up, and I am SO making my own cake! It's not sad...I'm excited to be able to do something creative for ME!

I'm in the "make my own" club, too. If I didn't make it, my mom would bake me a cake straight from the box, with canned icing, and serve it all in the 9x13 pan she baked it in. She's a sweet person, but I want a good cake, not the kind she bakes. She knows this, too. Plus, my husband feels like he's off the hook in the cake department. If I make my own cake, everyone is happy.

i always make my own.....no one ever even try's to purchase one for me.

I WISH I could make my own, my DH would be insulted and wants to treat me to a grocery store cake. He means well, so I don't have the heart to tell him I'd prefer otherwise . Maybe this year I can get the kids to tell him they really want to help decorate a cake with me for my bday, they really do love playing around with fondant and it would be special if they designed it. I, of course, would have to bake it so the flavor and quality will be exactly what I want (my DH can only boil water or place meat on the grill).

Here is my cake:

http://www.cakecentral.com/modules.php?name=gallery&file=displayimage&pid=1307373&done=1

Pretty good for an afternoon's worth of work! Happy Birthday to ME!!

Cute cake. Bet it was the best tasting b'day cake you've ever had!!!!

What did you use to paint the gold on the lipstick with? Looks great.

It's gold sparkle dust (from Global Sugar Art). I just added a little bit of vodka, and painted it on. I used some silver sparkle dust on the pearls too.

I haven't eaten it yet, but I will be tonight and I can't wait! Yummers!

The pearls look great, too!

Bakerbear, Happy Birthday!
I do cake for a local town restaurant. they called me and ordered a cake the same day as my birthday. My husband told me to turn cakes down because he wanted to take me out.Needless to say i made the cake and delivered it to them. To find out about 3 hours later that is where my husband took me for dinner. It was a suprise party at the same restaurant. Yes the cake i made was for me! they all laugh and said no other cake would have satisfied me...

When I hand over my sponge cake with fresh fruit and real whipped cream I am always thinking...why can't I get a cake like that for my Birthday??! I am making a stand-to make my own cake!

I don't have to wait for my B Day do I?

I always make my own cakes! Its a way for me to practice something I have wanted to try and get the flavor I want!!! Heck, I am do any day and just made my own shower cake and cookies! Cuz I got what I wanted!

Nothing sad about it.

tripleD, what would hubby have done if you HAD turned it down?

[quote="lindambc"]I always make my own cakes! Its a way for me to practice something I have wanted to try and get the flavor I want!!! Heck, I am do any day and just made my own shower cake and cookies! Cuz I got what I wanted!

What is your favorite cake to make for yourself?

i have never made my own birthday cake. thats because i didnt know how to decorate till now . this year i am looking forward to making my own cake after all when i get to pick my own presents and even my own bday cards on behalf of my parents and my hubby (now thats sad ) i should make my own cake !!!

No, what is really sad is that I won't even make my own cake. Who wants to clean up the mess on your own special day? And I am such a cake snob (don't care for anything but my own), I won't let hubby buy one from the grocery store, but he sometimes does it anyway because the kids would be disappointed if I didn't have one...

Oh well, maybe I will make my own cake this year. We'll see about the mess! LOL.

My birthday is New Year's Day, and every year I cook all day for a traditional southern New Years feast (pork & black beans = health  collards = money   rice=fertility) and I ALWAYS make my own cake.  This takes more than a day,usually. We have an open house and feed 20-25 people each year & I enjoy pretty much every minute of it, until it's time to clean up, and then I solicit help. If anyone were insensitive & silly enough to say "oh you poor thing" I'd tell them I do it because no one else could make the cake I want!  Last year it was a Hungarian Nut Torte with Whipped Cream & Caramel filling, year before I decorated a bigger cake to share with another birthday girl, this one with one tier of my all time favorite Amaretto Cake with Raspberry Mousse & Cream Cheese Icing.  My friends know I am very choosy about food, and understand that if they eat with me, the food they eat will be made with love.  Beside, who really likes grocery store cakes? YUCK!