Another new fad

..and then I would make the destructive, spoilt brat eat up every crumb to teach them a lesson

This is being done with 1 year olds, and their parents are choosing for them to do this. I don't agree with this but from your comment I'm assuming you've misunderstood? Because that's a very harsh way to talk about a one year old @Margs

Mom looks like she is being vindictive or something..... strange !

I have a cake maker friend and at least once every week she gets an order for a cake smashing “celebration “ people are paying between 40-100 for a cake. Such a wicked waste of food and money.

Jocarter, at those prices I’d make the cakes and sell them myself, despite the fact that I think it’s disgraceful. Oops, there go my principles again!

40-100 pounds for this nonsense? LOL They saw them coming ..as my granny would've said

Surely another fad from America, where cakes seem to be the consistency of Instant Whip, not actual cake. In American films you see someone’s face sinking effortlessly into decorated goo. It’s probably inedible, as is the lurid roll-out icing which covers children’s birthday cakes here.

Never heard of it, but it sounds appalling. How many wrong values does that teach?

Zero, because they are usually a first birthday thing (for first borns or onlies) so the kid doesn't know whats going on anyway.

I find the idea uncomfortably wasteful but probably no more than other popular party ideas

I'd heard that in the States they have cake smash parties because up to the age of 1 babies are not given any sweets and chocolates...which culminates in this ritual.

I have never heard of this - sounds so wasteful indeed-