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16 Best Smash Cakes to Celebrate Baby’s First Birthday

Our moms marked our first birthdays with supermarket sheet cakes loaded with frosting that made us bounce for days. Now you can bump it up a notch — but keep the sweet buzz — with smash cakes. These mini cakes are meant for tots to smash with their bare hands, caveman style, and eat until they’re good and messy. Click through our slideshow and get inspired.

Pink animal cake
Ella got two cakes for her first birthday. Fidanzo's of Aurora, Oregon created these two smash cakes, which each feature pink buttercream frosting.

“Like” this story if you created a smash cake for your kiddo’s first birthday and then tell us below which cake in our slideshow is your favorite. 

— Erin Lem

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