OT - Great birthday cake alternative

[Guest guest]

Just a quick suggestion for those of you who can't give your kid

baked goodies ...

For 2 years now I have made my boy a paper cake, a round cake made

up of 12 paper boxes shaped like slices. You can decorate these and

put candles on top and party favors for guests inside. My 5 y.o. son

doesn't recall ever " eating cake " , but he loves the decorations and

blowing out the candles, and the cake is a big hit with him. I think

it also might be a better solution for peer birthday parties than an

alt-flour recipe that doesn't taste like the kind of cake they're

accustomed to.

These cakes are HARD to find on the internet, it took me a lot of

work to dig up some sites that sell them, so I'm posting links to

these sites here. I'm not endorsing these vendors, but I do want

moms to know there are birthday options!

Here's what I found:

http://www.bayleysboxes.com/cake%20slice%20box.html

This is a big impressive site with cakes with lots of different

colors and textures and prints.

http://www.keepsakefavors.com/favors/product.php?productid=171

This is a small outfit that custom-makes paper cakes for wedding

showers and things like that. The cake they sell is from white

textured floral paper, but you can decorate over it with stickers or

paint and you wouldn't notice the texture. Last year, I ordered

late, and the lady made the cake over the weekend and shipped it

early so Tom would get it on time, and she's sent extra color-themed

ribbon and a few extras. Very sweet of her.

http://www.justjenndesigns.com/gifts/papercakedeco.htm

This place does very fancy customized bridal designs, a bit more

expensive and they don't work Fridays, so I didn't get very far with

them. They didn't seem able to accomodate rush jobs.

Hope this helps someone!

Suzanne

[Guest guest]

What a great find, Suzanne! Thanks for sharing.

mom to -12

SCd 4/23/04

[Guest guest]

What a lovely idea! Thanks for the links too

To: pecanbread

From: szmidford@...

Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 00:37:42 +0000

Subject: OT - Great birthday cake alternative

Just a quick suggestion for those of you who can't give your kid

baked goodies ...

For 2 years now I have made my boy a paper cake, a round cake made

up of 12 paper boxes shaped like slices.

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