Things Bakers Know: The King Arthur Baking Podcast
All About Birthday Cake, featuring Cheryl Day and Bronwen Wyatt
05 May 2025
Why are birthday cakes so special?
And yet the older I get, the more my birthday cakes look like something you would serve at a funeral.
From King Arthur Baking Company, this is Things Bakers Know. I'm Jessica Batalana, staff editor at King Arthur Baking.
And I'm David Tamarkin, King Arthur's editorial director.
And today we're talking about a very important topic, birthday cake.
Never had one. Wouldn't that be sad?
That would be so sad. I'd head over to your house immediately to make you one. I feel like the world is divided into two kinds of people, pie people and cake people. And I think, you know, which camp you fall in says a lot about you. I'm not gonna tell you what I think it says about you, but I think it says a lot about you. I am definitely a cake person.
I love cake for all occasions, but certainly for birthdays. Like a birthday to me is not a birthday unless you've got...
cake birthday pie is kind of sad yeah yeah cake is what makes the party a party i think and i was fortunate that when i was growing up my mother made scratch cakes for all of our birthdays you know she didn't do elaborate decorations anything like that but she made a solid scratch cake for each of her three children on their birthdays did anyone make her a cake who can recall i'm sorry mom
With the exception of going to other kids' birthday parties, all of the cakes that we ate as kids were scratch cakes. And then, you know, we'd go to other kids' parties and they would have store-bought cakes or box cakes.
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