Choosing the Perfect Birthday Cake
The birthday cake is, quite rightly, the star of any birthday celebration meal and nowadays we look to really capture the personality of the person celebrating the birthday in cake form. The nature of the cake is usually kept as a surprise for the recipient and great thought has been put into its design.
To ensure that you get the perfect birthday cake the first question you need to ask is how many people the birthday cake needs to feed? This of course depends on whether you are throwing a huge party for a 21st birthday or are just having a quiet family celebration for a handful of people.
Secondly, the flavour of the cake needs to be addressed. Whilst chocolate tends to be the favourite for most people, birthday cakes can also be made as vanilla sponge or fruit cakes and there is also the choice of fillings and different toppings and icings to consider.
Last, but by no means least, the birthday cake should reflect the person receiving it. Whether it be a simple design, iced in their favourite colours, having a birthday cake with their name and age on it, to having a novelty birthday cake that is as individual as the person themselves.
Very often for toddlers and small children the birthday cake will resemble a character from a favourite TV program or film, such as the ever-popular Peppa Pig or Buzz Lightyear, or perhaps a number cake depicting their new age.
For older children, tweens and teens, popular birthday cakes include electronic devices such as iPods and games consoles as well as music influenced cakes like guitars, stereos and even drum kits.
Adult birthday cakes could show the persons favourite alcoholic tipple, football club badge, handbag or favourite vintage car.
For the single man-about-town a more tongue-in-cheek, adult themed cake would be guaranteed to make them smile and create a talking point at the party.
For special birthdays such as 18th, 21st, 30th, 40th etc. the numbered birthday cakes remain ever popular, although many people are now choosing square or round birthday cakes with pictures that show the birthday girl or boys favourite pastimes. Sporting cakes, such as football shirts or rugby balls featuring the age are also popular.
The birthday cakes tend to get a little bit more traditional as a person gets older, with many choosing square or round birthday cakes with decorative icing however, hobby cakes showing a wide range of interests from Scrabble to fishing are becoming more and more popular.
Whatever you decide you can be sure that we at Leigh Cakes can design and create a perfect birthday cake for you.
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