Another new fad

Nothing more than mindless 'amusement' for the brain dead in society.
Hey! Let's do it for granny's 70th.
Great idea mum, can I be the one to push her head in?

What happened to the days when a one year old happily jumped on a sandcastle or a mud pie at the end of the day? Or everyone got excited if they managed to blow out the single candle on the cake.

Celebrating "smashing" a birthday cake, whether home made or expensively purchased, is just insane. What values about the world does that demonstrate to a child, the family and friends who witness such a crass event and see the ghastly photos?

After setting the standard and arranging a "cake smash" for a toddler's first birthday what do you do for subsequent birthdays? Trash your room parties for 6 year olds followed by wreck the house extravaganzas for teens? And for adult parties what about a good old riot and street rampage? It's all just a bit of fun!!!! ????

Hopefully it's just a localised fad that will die a natural death when everyone realises just how stupid it is. ???

Should say 1st birthday

It’s normally for a child’s birthday...
They do the cake smash it’s photographed and a bath is then had and that is photographed special tutus or pants are worn ... professional ones can cost upwards of £800 ?
Shocking

Just crazy!

These cake smashes seem really popular with local photographers based in & around our county town on the Welsh borders. I think it's crazy but DDIL is a cake maker & is regularly asked to make them. She's not that keen on doing them but she needs to earn money and, as they're a good income source, she doesn't often turn them down.

I despair of some of the new generations' habits and what they find amusing.
Two of my grandchildren spent 20 minutes on Skype informing me of their preferred eating places and the menus. No mentioned was made of family meals at home!

My friend's daughter spent £130 on one of these cakes for her daughter's 2nd birthday. The cake was beautiful, looked like Cinderella, and must have taken many hours to make. When it was smashed it was hollow and filled with sweets. Most of it ended up on the floor trodden into the carpet. The doting mother put the photos on social media. My friend and I were horrified at the price and what happened to the cake. Utterly disgusting, wasteful and senseless!

In a word - "pathetic"

I look around me and the world has gone mad!

MissA All the world is mad but me and thee and I think I had better not finish the quotation

Its so contrived.
I really dislike anything like this.
I look around me and the world has gone mad!

The cakes can cost £100 as well!

I agree, a total waste of good food. I went to a photo shoot last year where my friend had booked a cake smash theme for her one-year old daughter. First, baby was given a wooden spoon, and encouraged to tuck in. She obviously didn't think it looked like food plus it was quite hard, so she was reluctant. She was then encouraged to smash with her hands, but she was totally confused and didn't want to play with it so started to cry. The photos turned out lovely though and at least mum got to take the giant cupcake home to eat normally.

If you follow the link to the article about 'wedding dress trashing' you can see that one poor woman was killed following this distasteful trend - went into a river, her (presumably) already heavy gown got soaked and she was swept away

Yes I am in England and this sort of destruction is creeping in everywhere. What happened to love and thanks!!

I don't think so!
Piñatas have been around for centuries, they're not a new fad.

Hitting a toy paper donkey (panata) with sticks to make toys come out once it has disintegrated is also a vile fashion. Don't the stupid parents realise it just teaches children that it's ok to hit animals?

What a waste.make sure its clear that there will be NO cake smash.you are in charge not your child

Hideous idea. Any parent encourages this must be pretty thick and stupid. Whet an awful message to give to children.

It’s such a horrible idea and so wasteful.

All this stuff makes me feel physically sick.

Never heard of this. Utterly appalling.

I guess someone's baby grabbed their 1st birthday cake and dived in. Everyone laughed, the photo/video went on Facebook and got lots of Likes. Those unable to think for themselves copied it and photographers and cake makers saw an opportunity to cash in. And so it became 'a thing'. How sad and pointless.
That photo of the mother (?) shoving her baby's face into a cake that the unaware little one was possibly admiring is horrible. I have an unworthy urge to shove the woman's face into something.

Mankind (and I make no apologies for making it gender specific) is rapidly going down the pan, indeed, we're 2/3rds there.

Not heard of it, I think its absolutely disgusting, nobody did badly after blowing out candles I dont think, but hey it might happen.