Have your cake and eat smash it

I won’t lie, the first time someone described a cake smash to me, I thought they’d lost their minds. You’re going to give a cake…to a baby? And just…let it make a massive mess that you have to clean up afterwards? On purpose? While it may seem counterintuitive to actually encourage a child to make an unholy mess, you can’t argue with the visual results. They absolutely love it. 

Cake smashes in my Farnham (near Aldershot) studio are pretty simple:  after family & sibling images, we strip baby to the nappy (you don’t want them clothed, trust me), pop a cake (provided by but not baked by me) in front of them and watch ‘em go. It’s a brilliantly, messy, joyous thing to watch a one-year-old go to town on a Victoria sponge.

All followed by a splash in the mini bath to wash off all the mess! 

 CAKE SMASH AND SPLASH SESSION