Cake - What to Write for 10 Yr Old?

Is this for a birthday party? Why not just write happy birthday? I have never seen anything written on a birthday cake except that.

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If you're doing a circle cake, make the top of the cake a clock face with the hands at 10:00

If its a rectangle, make it look like a $10 bill, with her face/name in the middle.

I guess I'm boring, but we always just put, "Happy __th Birthday, ____!"

I would just write Happy Birthday ___ on it. Why the need to write anything more? Believe me-there is absolutely NOTHING that you or this board could come up with that would be considered cool because just the act of writing anything more on a cake is so inherently 'uncool'. My son is also turing 10 and I know that he would be mortified if Mom chose to message him on his cake.

How about "Happy 10th Birthday, Susan"?

I thought that was standard...maybe I'm uncool! LOL

Hip = the slang term for ten is dime. It's commonly used to say somebody is a 10, as in "That girls a dime" meaning she's a perfect 10. My daughter graduated in 2010 and they all had shirts that said "Class of Dimes" I would play off of that. Don't know the girls name, but

_______'s a Dime
Happy Birthday to a Real Dime
Dime Time

or screw it, just put a picture of Justin Beiber on it. :)

Just "Happy Birthday."

I wouldn't put anything. Maybe just a cute design and the candles. She probably doesn't want a cake with little roses or balloons on it anyway.

Why not skip the "cake" and do a cupcake tree?

She probably has a theme to her birthday anyway right? Why not something along those lines?

My daughter is having a camping/sleepover party and she's doing "dirt cups" and smores. No cake at all.

Well does she have to write something or can the cake just look awesome maybe with zebra stripes and a bright pink bow made of fondont? Or how about do two shaped cakes, a 1 and a zero? I guess the only thing I can come up with if she must have writing is:

“Imma Belieber!” (Justin Bieber fan??)
"cute and geeky at the same time. Its cukey!" (iCarly fan??)

I'm trying for you, LOL!!!

Two whole hands?

That is what we have always called the big 1-0!

Why write anything? I just decorate my daughter's cake - she picks the theme/design for me to make each year. She already knows it's her birthday, everyone says "happy birthday", and "Happy Birthday" is sung. Don't see the need to put it on the cake, too. LOL

Good luck!

I love the idea of making a cake that looks like a $10 bill! I am going to use that in one year for my daughter! This is sorta unrelated, but my mom would sometimes give us $1 for each year we were, she would sneak the money somewhere where we'd find it. It was a fun tradition!

I would ask the 10 year old what they want the cake to say, it's THEIR birthday. My nephew is turning 10 next month and he would want a say-so.

My 10 year old neice was happy with Happy Birthday. My other neices and nephews and son didn't care what was on the cake as long as their was cake.

Happy Birthday to the B-Day girl and relax, she is only 1 decade old. I'm wishing her many more.

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My 10 year old neice was happy with Happy Birthday. My other neices and nephews and son didn't care what was on the cake as long as their was cake.

Happy Birthday to the B-Day girl and relax, she is only 1 decade old. I'm wishing her many more.

Maybe something in text talk. Like omg, hb2u (oh my gosh, happy birthday to you). I don't know many other text-isms, but I know they're out there!

Happy B-day 2 U or ask the birthday girl for exactly what she wants.
Here is a twist on the cupcake tree. You could just make the cupcakes and supply the toppings in a creative way (use cool bowls to present the toppings, and also have smaller bowls w/sprinkles, gummies, fruit etc...-like at the frozen yogurt store- and the kids could decorate their own cupcakes. Then add a candle to the birthday girls cupcake and have her blow it out.

What the hell is hip these days anyhow? I normally don't write on cakes but just for fun, if writing were necessary, I'd go for a "hip" laugh and write:

"OMG 10? No Wai! <3"

or

"The cake is a lie!"

or

"We can haz cake nao? Plz??"

My daughter just celebrated her 10th last week. She ASKED me if she could make her own birthday cake. Just a mix out of a box, but still...

I only helped her a little (the bowl full of batter was a little heavy and awkward for her to pour into the cake pans). She frosted it with a large can/jar of store bought vanilla frosting (the cake was chocolate)... and I supplied some tubes of decorating frosting in a few colors for her to use to draw/write with. She had lots of fun and was very happy with how it turned out. Her friends were too. They didn't care that it didn't look "professional" at all. They all asked for 2nds! :)

Maybe suggest to your friend that her daughter might like to make her own and decorate it together.

Oh. And she asked ME to do the writing b/c she didn't think she would be very good at it. It just said "Happy Birthday A_____". That's all she wanted it to say.

I would put Happy 10th Birthday _______. and take a picture of it so she will always remember her tenth birthday.
When my daughter got old enough to request certain cakes she asked for ice cream cakes from Baskin-Robbins. I got her one and she was a bit disappointed that her name wasnt on it. So I made sure her name was on the cake for a few years after that. About the time she was 12, she told me she didnt really need a cake and I was shocked. I told her no daughter of mine was having a birthday without a cake and she gave in saying it was ok to get a cake, but she didnt want her name on it. Well... I got the cake, and I put some other name on it instead of hers. I loved the confused looks from her and her guests at the party when "Happy Birthday Michelle" came out with candles aglow! That was by far the most fun shed had and it went over so well, that I have continued it ever since. She is 28 now and she has had many names on her cakes. Doyle, Susan, Teresa, and some odd stuff I let the cake decorators make up. Shaniqua Bosworth Crow was a bit different when she was 26. I get such a kick seeing the decorators faces when I ask if I can get a name on the cake, and they say "yes, what name?" And I say, "oh it doesnt matter, just pick one",, and I get to tell them the whole story. I have over heard my daughter telling friends she cant wait to see who she will be for her birthday. Its a great tradition we have just for her.