124. How To Be Awesome At Birthday Smash Cakes
How To Be Awesome At Everything
Lindsay Dickhout
4.6 • 621 Ratings
🗓️ 22 January 2021
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
This episode is all about smash cakes!!
Lindsay sets up a little photo shoot for each kid on or around their birthday with a smash cake. It makes for the best memories and cutest photos!
Here are some of the topics she covers:
🎂 Pick a theme that they like
🎂 Have cake made or make it yourself
🎂 Set-up a backdrop for it
🎂 Plan to shoot it or hire someone to do it
If you are local! Contact Greg Loza- my photographer!
greg@belleamiestudios.com
🎂 Lighting is key
🎂 You can start anytime- don't have to start from birth!
🎂 Save the rest of the cake for the family singing at night - repurpose!
🎂 It's so fun to see what they do at each age- dig in or cautious etc!
🎂 Make it fun! Have surprise elements
🎂 Get your essentials in first
🎂 Bribery works!
🎂 Consider involving the family in the pictures
🎂 Don't show the actual cake until the moment of
🎂 Let it happen naturally!!
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | One of my favorite traditions I do with my kids is have a smash cake for them on or around their birthday and make a little photo shoot out of it. |
| 0:08.6 | I absolutely love having the photos as memories and capturing that moment in time of what each kid is like at each age, what they like to wear, what type of cake they want, the way they smile, just all of it. In this episode, |
| 0:23.3 | we're talking all about smash cakes, how to do it and make it fun. Let's go. You're listening to |
| 0:29.5 | the How to Be Awesome at Everything podcast, where we're obsessed with life hacks that make |
| 0:35.1 | your life more awesome. Your host, Lindsay Dick Hout, is an entrepreneur and business owner, a mom and wife, and someone |
| 0:42.6 | who wants to do things over the top at all times. |
| 0:45.9 | This concept started as a collection of things Lindsay has learned that she was documenting |
| 0:50.2 | to get to her kids one day, and now it's a podcast. |
| 0:53.5 | Join us on this journey where we talk about how to be awesome at everything we do. |
| 0:58.1 | Here's Lindsay. |
| 1:04.9 | Today's episode is a fun one. |
| 1:07.5 | It is all about smash cakes. |
| 1:09.4 | I wanted to do a fun Friday podcast that was just something |
| 1:13.9 | like exciting and celebratory. If you are listening to this podcast real time at the beginning of |
| 1:20.1 | 2021 here, a lot of things are canceled and parties are canceled, but I'm telling you I'm really |
| 1:26.4 | trying to focus on celebrations, |
| 1:28.9 | celebrating little things, celebrating big things, celebrating accomplishments, celebrating birthdays |
| 1:33.2 | in the ways that we can. I love a birthday smash cake. It's one of my favorite traditions we do |
| 1:41.1 | in our house. So I thought I would do a whole podcast on it. |
| 1:47.5 | You have to make sure that you hop over to my Instagram and I'll make sure if you're not listening to this real time, I'll save it in the highlights in my Instagram stories, but I'll post |
| 1:51.7 | a bunch of smash cakes that I've done with my kids to give you ideas and sort of give a visual |
| 1:56.8 | to everything that I'm describing today. First up with traditions. Traditions can be a lot of |
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