mcataylor---HAPPY HAPPY Birthday !!
I've not baked my own cake recently since my birthday is between Thanksgiving & Christmas, I'm usually filling orders or family holiday requests. However, I think I will do my own cake this year, so I can experiment with flavors or techniques

Happy birthsday...

I'm a singel mom, so I make all cakes in this house... plus all cakes in my huge family.

But I love it, otherwhise I would not be a baker...

First Happy Birthday to you!!! I just had a BBQ for both my husband and myself for our birthdays this past weekend and made a seperate cake for both of us. His was a poker table and mine was pink and black. Happy Birthday!!!!!

Happy birthday mcataylor! I am from the Lansing too! This is too funny because I am just now seeing more people from little old Lansing on this site. Are you originally from Lansing? We probably know each other with Lansing being such a "big" city!

Have a wonderful birthday!

my birthday is in two weeks, and I'm planning on making my own.....AND ENJOYING eating it too!

I bake everyone's cake in my family. Two years ago I told DH that I wanted a break and did not want to make my own cake so he bought a cake from a bakery and it was terrible!! Everyone hated it, so from now on I make my own cake, like someone else said it gives me a chance to try new flavors!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU!!! My husband and I have the same birthdate so IF a cake gets made, I do it. Most of the time I don't mind, but sometimes I get rebellious and neither of us get a cake.

I'm going to start making my own birthday cakes. My MIL usually makes mine and I make the ones for everyone else in the family. I hate to tell my MIL that I don't want her to make my cake this year. Last years was nasty. Not because she doesn't know how to bake, it's because she smokes like a smoke stack. The entire cake tasted like an ashtray. I grinned and beared it, but I don't want her to make it for me this year. Am I a terrible person or what?

I always make my own cake, and anyone else's that I actually intend to eat with them. It's not that I'm a snob -- the whole reason I learned to bake and decorate in the first place was that I started developing serious food allergies, including nuts and peanuts and I stopped eating anything if I couldn't verify its ingredients. Mom always feels bad that I won't let her bake for me, but even if I checked her kitchen fully, it wouldn't taste like mine (ok, so I'm a LITTLE bit of a snob )

No, sadly you're not the only one who makes her birthday cake. I always make mine if I want one. I've even made my own baby shower cake!

Of corse I make my own BD cake. I want a good cake.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY
My hubby just asked me if I was going to make my own cake this year and I told him that I didn't want a cake. I have not ate cake in like a year. I make them and ask everyone if they are good, but I don't like to eat cake anymore. Love making them though!!!! He also asked me what I was doing for his birthday...lol Anyway Happy Birthday again hope it's a great one.

mcataylor
from one bday girl to another happy bday...
Breanna

I forgot earlier, Happy Birthday to you!!!!!

No I am not making my own cake. Its funny but I am not a big sweets fan.

I can't remember the last time I had a birthday cake. Depending on how I'm feeling, I may make mine this year.

Happy Birthday!!!

I've made my own last three birthday cakes. when i turned 17(the year i started decorating) I actually made two, one for my family party and one for a party with my friends. this year i'm going to make a rainbow brite cake and im super excited

Now that my nephew is 24, we celebrate our birthday's together since they are a week apart. I volunteered to make our cake this year for the family party. But my brother and sister-in-law insisted on providing the cake since "it wouldn't be right" for me to make my own. They bought a Wal-Mart ready made cake. You know, the ones they have in the case, you pick it out, and they write the names.

Oh, how I wished I'd the cake myself! That Wal-Mart cake tasted horrible. Next year, I'm going to insist on making my own to "save them the trouble of ordering/picking it up".

Yes I do!

I make all the cakes for my family, children and adults, everyone gets to pick what they want and then I make it, it's also part of the birthday present. Seeing no-one else in the family feels they are creative enough I do my own cake, but the party is not at my house, so I get lunch and no clean up, and I get to make what ever I want, so it's not all bad. Now that my niece is 10 though and showing interest in cooking etc, I might encourage her mum to let her have a go, after all it's the thought that counts right!

I loved the earlier post though about the effort of making a cake and then getting the pan and all the goodies as a gift, what a cool idea!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

Yes I make my own birthday cake. I also make the cakes for my colleagues birthdays, so when I last made my birthday cake for work, I charged the company for it!!