Birthday Cake Question

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DS is having his party next week. I haven't ordered a cake yet (slacker mom of the year award).

Have you heard of donut cakes? What do you think of them?

DS doesn't like cake and someone suggested doing one today.

The other option was to get a carvel cake but he only likes green icecream (doesn't matter the flavor as long as it is green)

[doctordonna]

Cake made of donuts?


Yes, please.

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Never heard of them, but sure why not? However, Carvel ice cream cakes were a huge part of my childhood and I always vote for those :-)

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1) How does your son not like cake? What the hell are you doing to those kids, septimus?
2) What doctordonna said. Donuts = good! Cake = good! Cake made out of donuts = gooder!
3) Ice cream cake is also delicious. Mint chocolate chip would satisfy the green requirement and has the bonus of being awesome.
4) Now I want cake. And donuts. And ice cream. DAMMIT, SEPTIMUS!

[doctordonna]

I vote for donut cake with green ice cream on the side. Best of all worlds.

[emmybean]

A donut isn't a donut unless it's cake. Hth

[statlerwaldorf]

What about one of those giant decorated cookies? I went to a birthday party last month that served whoopie pies instead of cake. Although if he doesn't like cake, he might not like whoopie pies either.

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Aug 18, 2012 13:27:16 GMT -5 @soudesafinado said:

I'm stuck on the kid not liking cake part. Just make him a salad and get a cake for the rest of the kids. LOL!

He doesn't like salad either.

He only really likes garlic bread and roasted chicken.

[penguingrrl]

I think a donut cake sounds awesome! My kids aren't big cake fans either. They're not generally picky eaters, but cake doesn't do it for them.

[EloiseWeenie]

I'm making an ice cream cake tonight with green ice cream (Breyer's mint fudge brownie)

Something fun might be a cookie and buttercream bar, where they can ice their cookie of choice, or make cookie sandwiches. You can also have sprinkles and crushed candies to garnish.

[batsteph]

I need to know more about donut cakes. I Googled and found nothing definitive.

Is it a big roughly cake-shaped pile of donuts? Or is it a single giant donut?

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Aug 18, 2012 15:09:18 GMT -5 batsteph said:

I need to know more about donut cakes. I Googled and found nothing definitive.

Is it a big roughly cake-shaped pile of donuts? Or is it a single giant donut?

I was thinking a pile of donuts.

[batsteph]

Aug 18, 2012 16:21:06 GMT -5 @soudesafinado said:

OK, he gets a pass for the garlic bread. Somehow I envision a donut cake looking like a croquembouche.

That would be awesome. You know, you could probably make some kind of garlicky croquembouche... Well, maybe not. Spun sugar + garlic = +o(

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Aug 18, 2012 16:26:59 GMT -5 batsteph said:

Aug 18, 2012 16:21:06 GMT -5 @soudesafinado said:

OK, he gets a pass for the garlic bread. Somehow I envision a donut cake looking like a croquembouche.

That would be awesome. You know, you could probably make some kind of garlicky croquembouche... Well, maybe not. Spun sugar + garlic =

I like the idea of a croquembouche. No need to change a classic :-)

[Michelle]

I don't know what a croquembouche is but this is what I envision for a donut cake (but you could make it cooler) (pics from Pinterest):



And I also found these:

[Michelle]

I don't know what a croquembouche is but this is what I envision for a donut cake (but you could make it cooler) (pics from Pinterest):



And I also found these:

[redheadbaker]

Aug 18, 2012 20:51:49 GMT -5 Michelle said:

I don't know what a croquembouche is

A traditional French cake -- it's cone-shaped, and it's basically cream puffs held together with spun sugar.

ETA:

[redheadbaker]

I vote pile o' donuts.

[Deleted]

My DS would love a donut cake. I didn't even know that existed.

[Deleted]

Donut cake, donut cake!!! what is better than a donut? a whole pile of them!!

[ringstrue]

DD doesn't like cake either. Nor does my half sister. Must be some weird recessive gene.

[darnkatz]

We didn't do a cake this year. We did an ice cream sundae bar. It was a huge hit.

[Deleted]

Very rarely do I enjoy cake - its just never that good. Too much shitty icing is especially heinous.

I could eat an entire pie in one sitting, though. And donuts!!! Mmmmmmmm

[meshaliuknits]

Yum, donut cake!

If that doesn't pan out, may I recommend a cinnamon roll cake? Because, YUM.

[aw]

I once went to a wedding that had a doughnut cake. It was a laid back beach wedding and the bride loved Krispy Creme. It was way more delicious than any wedding cake I have every had!

I say go for it.