Well, I got my marching orders last night! My 15 year old wants me to make her a "regular" cake.

"Just chocolate cake with chocolate icing .... from the can! Cut in triangles, not cut like a wedding cake! No borders, no flowers, just regular cake!"

I said, "But what if I can't make just a "regular" cake? And I dont' remember how to NOT cut a cake like a wedding cake!"

She said, "Oh geesh, just pretend you're a regular housewife and you've no idea how to do cakes except the REGULAR way!"



So I'm playing "regular" housewife today. Chocolate cake with canned chocolate icing, cut into triangles.

Oh geesh I just remembered I forgot to get the ice cream she wanted!

Good luck Debbie that would be a hard one for me also LOL I want to decorate EVERYTHING in BC

And Happy Birthday to the Bday girl

LOL!!

My kids still want the huge, extravagant castles and buildings. My dd has her next 3 birthday cakes picked out! (They are 7,6 and 3...just waiting for the baby to start picking hers out.)

Missy

I had a UTI on my son's last birthday. He got Walmart cake. You know, it wasn't bad either.

I made my first attempt at gum paste flowers this weekend. When my son asked me what I was doing, and I told him, his reply was, "Just don't put those things on MY cake. I want regular flowers" (buttercream).

LOL That is hilarious!!! My daughter told me for her 16th birthday next year, that she wants a "Huge" cake! lol Kids...

Maybe you can purchase one from a bakery!?

oh, Debi, you can do this!! the stuff from a can...chocalate anyways...is actually quite good (I like to eat it right out of the can). As for cutting...just pretend you are cutting a pie...I'm sure you can do that?! Seriously...that's very funny! Happy Birthday to your daughter!! Jodie

Debbie maybe you could buy the can of frosting....empty it ...put your icing in it and then voila

Ok, I just proved I CAN'T do a "regular" cake!

- A small piece of the cake broke off when I flipped it out of the pan.
- I 'fixed' it by using icing to glue the broken piece back into place after it cooled.
- When icing it, the cake attached to the knife so I had to deal with cake crumbs and trying to put the cake back into place while dealing with a sticky knife.

THen I had to argue with her that yes, she HAD to wait until after dinner to eat it. She asked "Were there any trim jobs?" I said, "Sure was!" She got a big grin and headed toward the kitchen, when I yelled, 'They're in the trash can .... but it's a new trash bag!" ( I am SO evil!!! Wha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!!). She walked back in with that "you are SO stupid" look on her face, telling me "Not funny, mom!" (Oh I don't know! *I* got a big kick out of it!)

So oh my gosh, give me a 3-tier wedding cake to do anytime! These slap-it-together cakes give me a headache!!

How do those "regular" moms deal with this!!

Debbie-Honestly, I get it. When I was in college the cafeteria always served excellent bread which was made on site. The first couple of weeks of the school year we loved it, but by Thanksgiving plain old white bread from the grocery store was what we craved. Go figure! An ordinary chocolate cake without decorations sounds good to me. Although I would draw the line at the canned frosting. I agree with her about Oreos- they are in a class by themselves.

Be happy she wanted a cake at all.
After years of making cakes for others, no one in my house will eat cake anymore. The last birthday cake I made for my son was when he was 12...he'll be 20 in December. In fact, a while back, when he came home from college for the weekend, he came in the house and yelled "What smells so good?...oh never mind, it's just cake."

Don't feel bad. My son turned 15 last month and when I asked him what kind of cake he wanted, he said "A Shakes cake." For those of you who don't have a Shakes, it is a frozen custard franchise that makes delicious ice cream! But my son would rather have had one of their ice cream cakes than a custom cake from mom. His explanation? "I get to eat your cake all the time."

I'M tired of my cakes...I can't even imagine what my dear family is going through LOL

Don't let it bother you. My kids have not wanted decorated cakes for quite some time. I was kind of glad, so much less work. This last year my youngest wanted chocolate chip cookies and my husband wanted peanut butter cookies. So that's what they got!

The first couple of times they requested undecorated cakes, they tried to apologize and said they loved my decorating, but just wanted something plain. Since it's no longer a big deal, they ask for cheesecake, cookies, pound cake, etc. It's fine by me. It their birthday, so I try to make it special for them.

Now....when they get married, I'm sure that will be a totally different story!

Michele

Of course, there's the opposite side of the coin. When my daughter was in college which was 8 hours away from home by car, I asked her what she missed most about home. She said it was having cake scraps and icing for breakfast on Sunday morning!

My family always wants "regular" cakes too. My dad always says "I don't want none of that Hard stuff on it. Us old people don't like hard frosting" He's referring to MMF.

My oldest daughter was over this afternoon and I was telling her this story. She said, 'I know JUST how she feels!" She said they want my "regular" white cake with white BC filling covered in white BC icing. Told me, "We dont' want it torted, we dont' want it to have 3 different fillings in it....we just want your good white cake with white icing."

(Big sigh!) Gosh, I envy all you folks who have family who LIKE you to practice new things on them!

My son only lets me make him cookie cakes. You know like you get at the mall........huge choc chip cookie with just a bit of trim.

Gotta love that sticky gooey canned chocolate icing though!

For birthdays, my kids still love elaborate cakes (at 14). This past weekend, my family asked for a plain ole cake--a pound cake, with no glaze, fillings, frostings,etc. Just plain pound cake, which is my DH's favorite and his choice of birthday cake every year.
This year I'm planning to make my own birthday cake and I want it big and spectacular--just to say I did it

OMG!!! Here is a post I did yesterday on another board. "My son asked me to bake his birthday cake and said he wanted a yellow box cake with . . . . CANNED chocolate frosting. Obvisously they are totally unimpressed with my cake decorating skills. So what the heck do ya do with that?

GLAD I'M NOT ALONE. Someone said he probably wanted it as "comfort food". I think they were right.

My son loves my cakes. However, he is easy to please. He'll eat anything I put his name on- or spiderman.

My husband is not a fan of cake. He is testing many of my recipes though, and he will be honest about them. For my husband's birthday, he always wants cheesecake-- plain-- no topping at all. That was also his groom's cake at our wedding.

I feel for ya... This year, my oldest son wanted a cheesecake (with cherry pie filling on top) - and my youngest son wanted a pumpkin pie.

I think maybe they're "all caked out". *sigh*

Glad to know it's not just my house. My oldest DD graduated from high school last year. We had a huge party. Her only request was NO cake . I said fine. I'm busy with all the food anyway. Well, she didn't want cake at her party, but everyone else that came through my house was expecting cake. I am still hearing about it. Even though I explained that it was her party and she didn't want any cake, people are still giving me a hard time. Kids.

OMG you guys have me cracking up! my kids are little and we have a TON of cousins and other family i'm constantly cranking out cakes for. "regular" would be a relief for me! (frosted in the pan -maybe with oreos on it!) i just had a flash of the red-haired lady from desperate housewives -is it Brie? she would not be having that kind of "regular" cake!

And I thought my kids were the only ones that didn't want cake anymore. My husband even asked for a plain old chocolate cake with chocolate frosting for his birthday. When I do make a cake to try something new or to practice I take it to work, it just will not get eaten at home. It is a good thing I work for a big company.