As recent letters to Nursery World have shown, celebrations involving birthday cakes can be problematical. I once worked in a setting where parents brought in birthday cakes. Some were elaborately decorated, sometimes covered in cream (real or synthetic) and all manner of coloured bits and bobs; some were cheap 'long shelf-life' versions. Few were homemade. The practice created a range of problems, including competitiveness. Once, two cakes arrived on the same day: one was a spectacular, professionally iced affair that the children excitedly clustered round, the other a nice-looking, homemade sponge cake, which got barely a glance.
For me, that was the last straw! I quickly devised a 'birthday strategy'.
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