Who's ready for another giveaway! ME! Good. This one is open to all readers - yes if you live in the far flung corners of the world I will post to you. So good luck to each and every one of you.
The prize pack consists of:
The Australian Women's Weekly Children's Birthday Cake Book - Vintage Edition. The is Australia's most famous cake book. It was first published in 1980 and is an icon here in Australia. Many of you will remember the thrill of choosing your own birthday cake from this book.
Donna Hay's Annual Kids Magazine 2011. Donna is a our answer to Martha and Amy combined. You will love this mag, the styling is to die for and the ideas inspirational.
Set of 12 mini glass bottles. All us Aussie party girls use them and I get so many emails from overseas about them. So I'm offering a set to you!
Thank you for sharing your great ideas for inspirations and found some many beautiful items. I am saving money to collect your cake stands. Please keep them coming. xoxo
ReplyDeleteI used to have this book but it seems to have disappeared. Perhaps I lent it to someone years ago? I would love to be in your giveaway, I love the milk bottles. Thank you! ;-)
ReplyDeleteOne year my mom made me a caterpillar "cake" using the Hostess snowballs (I think that's what they were/are called). Red shoelace licorice was used for the legs and antenna and gumdrops for the feet and end of the antenna. It was awesome!
ReplyDeleteI love, love, love this giveaway!! My favorite birthday cake memory was my Muppets birthday and my mom made the cake with decorations. Love her for doing that!
ReplyDeleteMy memory is the first cake I helped my mum bake - the number 8 made into a racetrack from the Womens Weekly Cake book :)
ReplyDeleteMy mum always made fabulous cakes for all my birthdays but my all time favourite childhood memory was a Barbie pool party cake! It was a round double sponge cake with a top layer of green "Aeroplane" Jelly and classic chocolate bullets around the base! Bikini clad Barbie and her friends looked ever so glamourous sitting on lilo's! I'm certain it was from a Women's Weekly Kids Birthday Cake book too!
ReplyDeleteMy mum was never very good with baking when we were kiddies, so we never had the beautiful homemade cakes all the other kids had, we were always very jealous of them. So I made a promise to myself that I would always make the birthday cakes for my children, so far so good.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the giveaway.
My Mum always went all out with my Parties as a kid. It was never as Fancy as the ones you see Today but Us kids had a ball. My Favourite memory was she Always did a Peanut Treasure Hunt. The Prize being peanuts lol I hated Peanuts but loved the thrill of Finding them all was just like Easter hunting for the eggs
ReplyDeleteMy mother made me a beautiful cake every year. Wasn't I lucky. She had the Womens Weekly cake cookbook and the one I think I loved the best was the pink cat. Complete with coconut fur and black whiskers She is such a great lady as she is still making lovely birthday cakes for my kids.
ReplyDeleteoooh goodies ! First of all love you blog !! i get lots of inspirations and ideas from your blog...thank youuuuu ! And when i was little my family was poor so i didn't have any birthday at all until when i was 19 i got a big one but didn't have any cake ! that's y now i make my kids cakes on their birthday even the cakes doesn't look good but still i'm very pround of my self !! :D
ReplyDeleteoh and Thanks for the give away !!!
My nanna let me choose a cake from the Women's Weekly book every year and I was always so excited. My favourite was a stage with ballerinas dancing. I still have the dolls! Wonderful memories.
ReplyDeleteFor my fifth birthday my mum and I baked a mini mouse cake with a lovely pink bow and because she worked at a preschool we got to have the party in the school playground. She decorated the table with a long pink paper runner and lots of pink and white balloons and she made me a very cool birthday crown which i got to decorate with glitter and all sorts and i can still remember wearing it a week later:)
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ReplyDeleteI have 3 sisters and 2 brothers. And every time it was one of our birthdays, we were able to go through the Women's Weekly Children's Birthday Book and choose which cake we wanted! My mum is AMAZING! She has done most of the cakes in the book :) My favourite is a vintage "Dolly Pardon"!
ReplyDeleteMy favorite childhood birthday cake memory is of a friends birthday cake
ReplyDelete(goodness dont tell my other who spent HOURS in a sugar filled kitchen baking and decorating just for me!!) Anyway on the diningroom table of this childs house was an ENORMOUS Ocean LIner ( think the LOVE BOAT) all white and blue and made of ICECREAM - I can still remember the taste, the magic ness of it all - wow ee wow ee !! Probably spoilt me for every other party from then on. Anyway I do love to bake so fingers crossed in this great giveaway !!
Mum made me chocolate cake every birthday. She'd decorate with 100s and 1000s, Smarties, choc flakes. It was choc heaven
ReplyDeleteMy thirteenth birthday fell on a Friday the 13th, so my Mum dressed as a witch and made me a spider web cake with a big spider and little flies 'stuck' in the web. She hated it (she's very pink and flowery) but it looked amazing! Thanks, Mum! :)
ReplyDeleteI can't remember which birthday it was but my Mum made me a princess cake, complete with the barbie in the middle and the cake as her skirt, all pink and glittery I remember thinking she was the most beautiful thing in the world and that my Mum was AMAZING. I didn't get to make a cake for my little one's first birthday as it fell during a heatwave last new year and our oven went caput but this memory spurs me on to make a cake for his second birthday so that he can have birthday cake memores and think I am AMAZING too!
ReplyDeleteI had the dolly varden cake, but my nanna knitted her a dress that covered her top half and came down onto the top of the cake. Would love those milk bottles for my daughters party.. thanks you and fingers crossed X
ReplyDeleteI honestly can not remember any of my birthday cakes. I think I might suffer from long term memory loss. hehe. However, for my daughters 3rd birthday this year she had a Princess (Cinderella) Party and my two best friends and I worked on a Princess Castle Cake for 3hrs (just the decorating). It was amazing. We had snow covered waffle ice cream cones as the pointy bits, ribbon, smarties, blue icing, white icing, a birthday banner and some very gorgeous Cinderella and Carriage cut outs. I hope missy remembers it - if she doesn't we have the photos to remind her :-)
ReplyDeleteMy favourite birthday cake memory from your childhood was princess castlle cake. I've still remember how special i felt.
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Tatiana Moreira - tatianamoreira@yahoo.com.br
My mum made me the house (+surrounds) from the Hansel and Gretel story. I was about 7. The sad thing was that I didn't want to eat it! She put so much work into it! It was beautiful!
ReplyDeleteMy sister made me a massive tweetie bird cake, it was so yummy and I felt like the luckiest girl!
ReplyDeleteGreat giveaway, thanks!
I have talked to lots of my friends from my era (kid in the late 70s abd early 80s) and we all remember that we had icecream cakes for our birthdays. If you ever had one you would remember them - they came in a round foam container and had the creamiest pink and green roses on them. They were the best icecream cakes ever.
ReplyDeleteMy Mum always made a cake I picked out of the Women's Weekly Birthday Cakes book (I remember her numbers ones the most, and I think a princess castle?), but I think my favourite was actually the sponge cake with cream and strawberries that she made for my 8th birthday party which had a "tea party" theme. I still love a good sponge today (but am finding it hard to master myself, which means I have to practice a lot!).
ReplyDeleteMy parents were always busy so i never got a homemade cake. Instead i got a store bought sponge cake but it was great! Mum put cream and strawberries on top to jazz it up but the momory is still precious!
ReplyDeleteWW Birthday cake book was the best thing about our birthdays growing up!! My earliest memory was from my 3rd Birthday - I had the swimming pool cake, with green jelly & little dolls in lolly rings, floating in the pool!
ReplyDeleteMy memory is not too fond my mum made me a log cake, all my friends were having barbie ice cream cakes and I got a log with spearmint leaves
ReplyDeleteI think I have been scarred for life and as a result always set out to make my girls what ever cake they want
This weekend we are having Hannah Montana for Matildas 5th birthday Nothing beats a womans weekly cook book and Donna Hay is amazing !!!
My nan always made me such beautiful cakes when I was little. I remember I think for about my 4th birthday she made me a cute red lady bug (for the girls) and a brown turtle (for the boys)
ReplyDeleteI don't remember much about fancy birthday cakes although my mum always went out of her way to make the day special for us. I do remember her making two layered sponge cakes with jam & cream for my dad to take to work & apparently everyone loved her for it which has inspired me to send my hubby with goodies to share lately (namely jaffa cheesecake - yum!!)
ReplyDeleteAnother fabulous giveaway!
ReplyDeleteI think it was my 13th birthday and Mum had baked me one of those packet crazy cakes. You know the ones that were all green cake with pink icing? Well we had it waiting on a table outside while we watched a video on TV inside and when it was time to cut the cake, it was missing! We searched everywhere for it but there wasn't a crumb left in sight. Years later my best friend confessed that she had witnessed my dog eat the whole thing in one go and didn't have the heart to tell me at the time. Bloody dog! :)
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Awesome giveaway, Sharnel! My Mum still has the WW b'day cake book. My favourite cake Mum made from that book was the lolly shop!! Too cute.
ReplyDelete~ Clare x
ALL my cakes were out of the Women's Weekly book and since Mum still has it, I've now used it for my own daughters! My favourite would have to be the dolly (barbie) cakes!
ReplyDeletemy absolute favourite birthday cake came on my 5th birthday. it was one of those barbie doll cakes with the doll standing upright and her skirt (made of cake) al around her. it was pale pink with lots of smarties and glitter and i honestly couldn't get enough of it!
ReplyDeletethank you for giving us the opportunity xx
The caterpillar cake was always a hit in my household growing up. But what I loved the most was the little tupperwares filled with leftover coloured buttercream!!
ReplyDeleteYay, a great giveaway! Every year I would pour through Mum's WW birthday cake book. No matter what cake I chose Mum would always be able to pull it off spectacularly!
ReplyDeleteMy mum also had the original Women's Day Cake cook book. From my 2nd birthday to when I was 12 my mum made me a cake from that book on my birthday. My absolute favourite was a pink castle complete with draw bridge and moat. Now being a first time mum (my son is 4 months) - I can't wait to keep the tradition going. I am a new follower/fan and just wanted to say how amazing your ideas are - Beck
ReplyDeleteThe one cake that stands out from my childhood was when my mum made me a hockey ground for my 5th birthday (it may have been from the Aust.WW actually..?) I played hockey at the time and was so proud of that cake! (it was actually my first party with all my friends as i had just started primary school!
ReplyDeleteMy Mum was the world's best sponge cake baker so my favourite Birthday Cake was sponge cake decorated with cream, fresh strawberries and flowers. Second favourite was Dolly Varden Ice Cream Cake....
ReplyDeleteMy Mum has the original Women's Weekly book and it was so exciting to get to choose a cake from it when my birthday came around. My favourite cake memory was when mum made me the typewriter. She also made me the stove from the same book but I was too young to remember!
ReplyDeleteThank you for being so generous.
ReplyDeleteMy favourite birthday cake moment from my childhood is: my grandma baking an pear crumble (my favourite) in a large version for the guests and family and a smaller version all for me. Nobody was ever allowed to have a piece, even though there were at least 8 pieces of cake in the small version. It made me feel special, having a cake all for myself :)
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My mum always baked our birthday cakes from scratch and the most memorable one was the plastic doll in the cake one. Now as my mum was a feminist I wasn't allowed the 'Barbie' version, but I didn't know at the time that was an option. Now that I have my own girls that timeless classic has even been attempted by me! I don't think that I'm anywhere near the expert my mum was, but I think that our trying is enough. My son just the other day was reminiscing over the cake I made for his 7th birthday. It was a bowling-pin cake for a bowling birthday. What great memories cakes make!
ReplyDeleteWhat a brilliant prize! I love the mini glass bottles as would my daughter
ReplyDeleteMy mum baked my sister and myself a cake for every birthday, in fact she still does! Can't wait for next weeks one!
One of my earliest cake memories was a barbie cake, the cake made her balldress and barbie herself was the head and body, i loved it! not wanting to eat it but play with it of course. My fondest cake memory was a muppets cake bed, with Miss Piggy sat in the centre of huge sleepover! so much fun! xx
Oh, it is so nice.
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My favourite birthday memory was of the cake my Nanna made me from that Women's Weekly book for my 9th birthday, the piano. I remember each year we used to flick thorugh the book to choose our cake for the year. Would love to own a copy of it myself x
ReplyDeleteMy favourite birthday cake memory was a women's weekly cake - the pool cake, with jelly for water and green coconut for grass - little dolls "swimming" in the water. I loved all my birthdays and now am loving passing that onto my own children each and every birthday :)
ReplyDeleteMy Mum still has her original book but it is now VERY loved. I remember every birthday my 3 sisters and I would spend hours going through the book marking pages with little ripped up bits of paper. Then Mum would pick one of the cakes and make it as a surprise for our birthday.
ReplyDeleteWe always wanted the pool cake but we never got it :( but I think over the years we must have had nearly every other cake.
Thanks for the great giveaway :)
My mum always made me the best cakes for my birthday. All homemade and she had great natural talent. My favourite cake was her neapolitan cake!
ReplyDeleteMy absolute favourite birthday cake memory is of a cake my Mum actually made herself, she wasn't really into baking but one year she made one, it didn't rise properly, it was lopsided, and she ended up droping it, but that was the most delicious cake I've ever had!
ReplyDeleteJamie Hendle
My favourite birthday cake memory is of my 16th and my grandmother make a heart cake which had a lid and it was filled with chocolates. Delicious!!
ReplyDeleteI remember the year that my mum and nan made me the green jelly swimming pool! That is still my favourite cake of all time!! Every year i would ask for it and then finally they gave in and did it for me!! Loved it
ReplyDeleteMy fave cake was the first ever Choc ripple cake I tried... YUMM!!
ReplyDeleteI just HAD to have one for my 18th birthday cake I loved them so much!
My 10th birthday cake! Mum made the butterfly from AWW Children Birthday Cake book (which she's now passed on to me!) and I remember I felt so special because I got to help her put smarties and lollies on!
ReplyDeleteMy favourite birthday memory, my mum made me a smurfette cake it was awesome. She also made the teddy in the armchair cake and apparently i loved it so much no one was allowed to eat it!
ReplyDeleteMy two sisters and I have picked so many birthday cakes out of this book! My most memorable would be the piano cake and Minnie Mouse, that one being a surprise cake at a very special birthday dinner at Black Stump with my Aunty & Uncle. That was over 20 years ago now :)
ReplyDeleteAbout a month leading up to my birthday, my Mother would pull out a collection of Birthday Cakes (from Women's Weekly) and I would select my favourite. One memorable one was for my eighth birthday when I had a special party. I chose the Dolly cake, with a beautiful Barbie in the middle. It had gorgeous pink buttercream icing, ribbon and flowers.I thought it was the best idea ever, as I got to keep the doll and eat yummy marble cake too!
ReplyDeleteThe AWW Birthday Cake book was a favourite in our house as well. My best memory is the year I picked the Humpty Dumpty cake (I think I was about four years old). My mum did a brilliant job on the cake but had nothing to dress Humpty in as I only had Barbie dolls and no Kens. But she had a moment of inspiration and used my brother's Michael Jackson doll for the outfit. So there are pictures of me sitting in front of a Humpty Dumpty cake with Humpty wearing teeny tiny black leather pants and a very cool red leather jacket, just like as extra out of Thriller. Awesome!
ReplyDeleteMy favourite birthday memory was the WW cookbook and spending hours deciding which cake I would have. I chose the monster cake and after what seemed like days, my mum had finished it. I had photos taken with it and my mum was so proud of her achievement. I was on my way to Kindy and everyone was going to share the cake - I had talked it up a bit. Mum put the cake in the car and got ready to put me in my car seat. Our dog loved going for drives and jumped in the backseat whenever she got the chance. This was her chance - straight onto the monster cake. She was covered with bright blue icing, my mum was so angry and I was in tears. My grandmother came to the rescue and delivered a thoughtful ice-cream dolly cake just in time for morning tea. My photos with that Cake are still some of my favourites :)
ReplyDeleteOf course, my most fondest memory of birthday cake was the one my mother made me. The cake with a barbie doll stuck down the middle of the cake (we didn't have the proper cake tin back then). But the cake was pretty even if my Barbie doll was used, clothes and all.
ReplyDeleteA lovely memory although not thinking about the number of years ago this was!!
My mum made us a cake every year. My favorite was a triple layer chocolate cake width piped icing outside and cream in the middle. Yum
ReplyDeleteUndoubtedly my favourite cake made by my wonderful mum was the "sweet shop" from the AWWeekly cake book - she did a fantastic job...but I must admit my sister's and I always asked for that cake so that she would buy those gorgeous mini boiled sweets in the little bottles from Darryl Lea ;-)
ReplyDeleteI have to say my favorite cake my mum made me was for my 5th birthday it was the best cake it was the Teddy from the womans weekly cake book she made it pink though. Apparently it toke her all night to make but I was worth it :)
ReplyDeleteHi i think it is amazing that you offer these giveaways. My favourite birthday cake memory would be the classic Dolly Varden cakes, my Mum was a cake decorator and used to make amazing cakes.
ReplyDeleteMy favourite birthday cake memory wasn't for me, but for my brother for some reason. My mum made my brother a figure-8 race car track cake for his eighth birthday. It was probably from the WW book. I just remember being absolutely amazed that my mum had been clever enough to make it! It was chocolate cake with chocolate icing, matchbox cars, licorice sticks for the racetrack curb, and smarties were on there for some reason too. No idea why this memory is so vivid, but it makes me smile.
ReplyDeleteI remember helping my Mum create the ice-cream swimming pool from the Children's Birthday book and it ended up looking algae infested because there is no blue jelly in Australia. It was so fun making it though.
ReplyDeleteMy mum usually made us 'clock' cakes... round chocolate cakes with smarties and cachous telling the time (our age). It was great because you could easily tell what birthday it was in the photos. I remember that when I turned 12 I had a big party so she made a whole grandfather clock so there would be enough cake! I also remember a Dolly Varden cake when I turned 6 and we lived in England. It was a really pretty doll, but the cake tasted like sand. My favourite cake is a pumpkin fruit cake with lemon icing, and Mum made me that for my 18th and 21st. She's a good Mum!
ReplyDeleteI loved the panda bear cake my Mom made. It was sitting up and 3 dimensional. Now that I think about it...that cake must have been tricky to cut and serve!
ReplyDeleteThanks for putting on such a great giveaway!
ReplyDeleteFor one of my birthdays I asked for the yellow butterfly and I remember Mum and Dad up for hours rolling out the licorice.
It's actually my 30th in a few weeks and I've asked Mum to make that very cake again - however I'll be helping with the licorice this time.
The little glass bottles would make a perfect addition to my party.... I hope I win, fingers crossed XX
I think mum made us number cakes most years and that was about as creative as it got! Although I do remember my brothers little army men being used on one of his cakes! (PS. after trying to make a train cake last year for Mr 2, I can understand why she stuck with the basics!)
ReplyDeleteI love reading your blog and this is such a cute giveaway. I loved seeing William's party and am excited to see your daughter's party too. This giveaway is so cute - thank you!
ReplyDeleteI love to make birthday cakes and other special party food for my kids as I want them to remember that from their childhood in the same way that I do.
When we were kids we weren't allowed to eat many lollies, so the cake with the most lollies was what my brother and I tried to choose. Before our birthdays, we would spend weeks looking through the WW Cake book, debating which would be the best choice. I can see us lying there on the lounge room floor looking at the book.
I remember that better than the cakes, but I know we had a 3D cat, the sweet shop, a monster and a ship with jelly sea.
My favorite cake would definately have to be the rainbow cake my mum made me for my 8th birthday! It was incrediable! Everyone at my party And myself were so amazed with it! It was like a magic trick! We had no idea how she could do it! Pink, purple, blue, green and yellow! Something I'll never forget!
ReplyDeleteI come from a vietnamese immigrant family and was always jealous of all the other girls birthday parties i went to as a little school girl. But I knew we couldn't afford one of our own so never dared to hope that I would ever have a fabulous birthday party as a girl.
ReplyDeleteI settled for making myself a piece of fairy bread as a 'celebratory treat'.
But on my 8th birthday in the middle of our music class, my mum appears at the doorway to our classroom with hands LOADED with shopping bags of goodies and treats.
I had a surprise birthday party with my class mates. And even though it was just supermarket bought cake, I will never forget it.
Bless my mum :)
Every year the 4 of us kids chose our cakes from the WW cake book and it was so exciting to enjoy all the cakes even if it wasn't our birthday, but my favourite cake was definately the castle from that book. I hope I can make it for my daughter one year.
ReplyDeleteOh boy did I have a favourite birthday cake. Such a favourite that I asked for it every year from 8 -13. It was the most delightfully delicate sponge in the shape of a chinese fan, with sprays of pastel coloured cream roses and "lace-like" patterns.
ReplyDeleteEach year I asked for it in different colours. It was a small mum and dad style bakery that made it, and they still exist here in our regional town 40 years on. Shame my little boy isn't into pretty fans :(
My mum made me the cat out of that very cookbook when I was 8! I loved it and thought it was beautiful. My cousin however, thought the licorice looked delicious, and ate the tail and whiskers off it before the party guests got to see it! lol.
ReplyDeletei was one of those pink princess barbie girls. mom made me a 3-d princess barbie cake with a huge cake-filled poofy skirt around the doll.
ReplyDeletei still have pictures of me grinning from ear to ear looking so very pleased!!
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I remember one year that I had an ice cream cake. They were a relatively new thing back then. Who would have thought, a cake made out of ice cream! YUM! The only problem was, my birthday is in winter...
ReplyDeleteWhat a beautiful giveaway. Thank you so much for the opportunity. My favourite cake was a Haunted House my Auntie made. She thought it was revolting, but all us kids absolutely loved it.
ReplyDeleteMy mum wasn't much into baking so we'd usually get a store bought sponge with that piped icing... I however love baking and have been wanting to get 'the weekly's' cake book for ages but couldn't find it! Would love to win it! Thanks for the comp!
ReplyDeleteNot an actual memory, but a photograph. My family was super poor when I was a kid, so there are very few photos of me as a baby. There is, however, one priceless one of me all cake-faced on my first birthday. Love those milk bottles-would be great for my Christmas cookie swap party I'll be hosting. Crossing all crossables. =)
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ReplyDeleteMy most memorable cake was from my 5th birthday at my Grandmas house in Brisbane, it was the most beautiful dolly varden cake, I thought she was even more pretty than the dolly toilet roll holder in Grandmas bathroom (remember those!!). Thanks for creating this wonderful competition based on childhood memories, I wonder what cake in 30 years time my children will choose??
I had one of the figure 8 swimming pool cakes, with little plastic babies crawling on it. Man, I thought I was so cool with that cake! My birthday is in January so I got to have a pool party every year.
ReplyDeleteThank you for this generous giveaway. My favourite memory of a birthday cake isn't actually the finished cake at all. It is the memory of it being my turn to get out the birthday cake AWW 'bible' and trying to chose which one this time.
ReplyDeleteWhen I was 8, my mom baked a delicate white cake with white frosting, the perfect scenario for the most beautiful real porcelain doll I had ever seen. It was a tiny girl wearing a white dress, holding in her hands a white cake with a gold number 8 on top. I still have it!! Regards from Argentina!
ReplyDeleteAndrea Varela
We never had a cake for birthdays. Indian village homes are not equipped with ovens. Instead we had rice pudding or tapioca pudding for birthday celebrations. After coming to America I made 5 tier cake with hand made flowers for my In-laws 50th anniversary. Cake decorating became my hobby since then. You can pick up a hobby any time.
ReplyDeleteMy favourite cake memory is of the strawberry shortcake girl cake my mum made for my 3rd birthday. it looked great but i remember the red icing tasting horrible!
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ReplyDeleteMy Favourite Birthday Cake was for my 7th Birthday.... my Mother had made a vanilla cake with chocolate icing cake in the shape of a gingerbread house. It had chocolate freckles as the shingles on the roof and musk lifesavers for the windows and door, it had musk sticks for the path. It still is my all time favourite cake she ever made.... I had a pretty girly party that day and is filled with wonderful memories!
MY SIL mother passed away this year...she was the perfect second grandma any girl could want - I was very lucky! When my SIL went through her things she found the original WW Children's Birthday Cake Book, which turned up in the post just as I was musing about buying the re-released version! Now I always wanted the Dolly Varden ice-cream cake and heck in three weeks for my 41st birthday I might just make it! Because ice-cream cakes were always my favourites...
ReplyDeleteMy most treasured birthday memory is Mum getting down the "CAKE BOOK". I was allowed to pick any cake I wanted, and I would spend hours pouring over the pages, trying to decide on just one! Even now, remembering all the cakes brings a smile to my face. I can almost smell the cake cooking in the oven ...
ReplyDeleteI think it was my sixth birthday. My mom made me a Holly Hobbie cake. It looked just like the Holly Hobbie lunchbox I carried to school everyday. I was so obsessed with Holly! The chocolate cake was pretty delicious too and I felt so grown up having a birthday party with my neighborhood friends. Would love to win this giveaway!
ReplyDeleteMy mum has made me tons of awesome birthday cakes over the years, but my favorite would have to be a spice girl cake that was a normal choc cake with a small stage made out of a small box and five small dolls made out of wool and felt and syrofoam to look like each of them! It was sooo good :)
ReplyDeleteI think my fav cake was a barbie doll stuck in the middle of the cake wearing the cake as a 'dress'!
ReplyDeleteMy Dad use to make our birthday cakes! My sister and I would flick through the oases of the WW Birthday Cake Cookbook and chose what we wanted. I loved the castle cake for my 4th birthday and the swimming pool cake filled with jelly for my 7th birthday. I remember my Dad slaving away painting cool mints with food coloring for the beach balls. It was the best!!!
ReplyDeleteMy favourite cake memory is a actually one of my brother's birthday cakes. It was the number eight car race track from the 'Women's Weekly Birthday Cakes' book. My sister made it but the best part was, it was for his FOURTH birthday!!! He was obsessed with the number eight as a toddler! Great giveaway!
ReplyDeleteI loved the not-quite-as-popular little "oven cake" with breakfast sizzling away on top - as a five year old I adored the minature eggs (white marshmallows halved with a yellow smarties), sausages (bullets) and tomatoes (jaffas) cooking away. Would be perfect to finish off a modernised breakfast or camping style party theme. So cute!!
ReplyDeleteAs a little girl I loved going to the neighborhood bakery to pick out my cake "style".
ReplyDeleteThere were so many choices in design, and colors to choose. I adored the roses they decorated with...petals of thin wafer with a candy bead center. Haven't thought about those in many years!
Thanks for the opportunity to enter, this is a very sweet idea. We could never go past a gorgeously rich butter cake, iced with butter cream and a generous amount of smarties covering the whole lot. Naturally, most of the smarties ended up in our tummies before they even got to the cake, but that was part of the fun. x
ReplyDeleteMy Aunty made all our birthday cakes from scratch & my favourite had to be the Farm House she did me with lots of edible little animals which I kept for months & would not let anyone eat..Lol
ReplyDeleteI would love to win a set of your Milk Bottles, they remind me of when we got milk in bottles at school,which I have one still & its about 38 yrs old !
Thanks for the opportunity to enter. My favourite Memory is of my mum making the "Train" cake from the AWW for my 5th Birthday. I loved all the little lollies in the carriages :)
ReplyDeletemy mum made me a piano cake (I am sure it was from women's weekly or something), but it was awesome, so well done.. Licorice for the black keys and all.. so much detail and creativity - wish that creativity had been passed on... love all your stuff..
ReplyDeleteKim Featherstone
My parents never had heaps of money, but they did what they could. I dont really remember which gifts I recieved as a child, but oddly, I have vivid memories of the cakes mum used to bake for us each year. I can still remember the thrill of being presented with a Minnie Mouse cake for my 6th birthday party.
ReplyDeleteEach year, for each of her 4 children, she would spend hours and hours perfecting a special cake for us .... a tradition I have happily carried on for my own kids :)
Thanks for the opportunity to enter!
Karen D
tkday @ tkday . net
I would love to enter your competition, love your page as equally as the milk bottles....
ReplyDeleteEach year as a child I would peruse the pages of that birthday cookbook and my ULTIMATE request was always the train cake on the front cover but my mum working full time with four kids would always say it was too hard and I had to pick something else...One year as a huge surprise my parents got someone to make it for me....still remember the massive box it came it....fantastic
Thanks for creating this competition
ReplyDeleteMy favourite b'day memory is the year my parents gave me the train cake on the front of the b'day cake book. It was a tradition to peruse the cake book before the big day and mum would make whatever you asked for...each year I asked for the train but a full time working mother of four kids always told me it was too hard and to pick something else....one year she got someone to make it for me as a surprise....Tasted fantastic...soo cool....Hope my kids have as good memories when they grow up.
My favorite birthday cake was any that my Mum made for me.
ReplyDeleteThere is just something special when it is made with love no matter what it looks like!!!
My absolute favourite cake memory was the Princess Jasmine cake my Mum made for my 8th? birthday. Think pink and white, with the big marshmallows in pink and silver cachous, it was stunning. I'd love to recreate it one day for my little girl, it was everything I wanted and for a little girl who generally wasn't *girly* but wanted to be just once, it was perfect!
ReplyDeleteI never had any birthday cakes growing up....but hey when my nephews came along and then my kids i had to make all their cakes. At the time there was only 2 ww birthday cake books .I loved them...
ReplyDeleteI don't remember many of my cakes but my daughters first birthday cake is my favorite. It was a rubber duck that took forever but it was so worth it!
ReplyDeleteWell, I vividly remember a "bacon and egg" birthday cake mum made me one year. all sweet and of cake and icing of course! Just very memorable! Love your work!
ReplyDeleteWhat a wonderful prize! My favourite birthday cake memory was going to get my dolly/barbie cake and the dress bit was an ice cream cake!! It was so exciting going to wherever we had to go to get the ice cream dress bit!!I think my parents were game considering my birthday is in December!!
ReplyDeleteA traditional cake in Belgium 20 years ago for a First communion was an ice cream cake in the shape of a little lamb. I still remember having to cut the lamb's head off as a 6-year old. It wasn't as cruel as it sounds and this beautiful raspberry coulis would come running out.
ReplyDeletewhat an awesome giveaway! I know the AWW birthday book well - all the cousins were allowed to choose their cake each year from this book and my darling Gran would bake and decorate. My favourite memory is my Dolly Varden cake which was so glorious and decorated in a way that was every little girls dream. However, as I pulled out the doll which huge excitement it was like a horror show! The doll was missing not only its legs but everything from the waste down - I was traumatised! I have since made one for my daughter, but I left the legs in :-)
ReplyDeleteI used to love looking through the Women's Weekly kids cake book as a kid. Mum made me the swimming pool one year - I was stoked!
ReplyDeleteMy mum and I share our birthday, she has cooked the same chocolate cake with sour cream chocolate icing every birthday! Now I'm an adult with my own kids I've started making it for them too.
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My Mum threw the best Halloween birthday party for me and, now i look back it must have been a busy year as my birthday is in August...The details were amazing! Cath from Lunch Boxes With Love x
ReplyDeleteMy favourite Birthday Cake memory was in Malawi, Africa when my dear Mum slaved away in the kitchen making me a beautiful pink Dolly cake. I loved it sooo much!
ReplyDeleteOhh!!...what a nice giveaway!!
ReplyDeleteI remember the birthday cake My mother took to the kindergarden ...it was a wonderful turtle!!
My sibilings and I (all 6 of them!!!) would spend hours flipping through this book in the lead up to the big day, even if it was 2 months in advance! Without a doubt, the clear winner was the "swimming pool cake," with jelly in the centre... my poor mother!
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ReplyDeleteMy fav cake memory was when I was 12 and going through a 'Teenage mutant ninja turtle' phase and had a Raphael cake done! hehe not girly at all but at the time I loved it and I always remember that cake!!