Is it ok to give cake with brandy to kids? Help!?!


Question: I just bought a strawberry short cake. I didn't know it was yellow cake soaked in light brandy syrup!!! I read the description in the take home menu when I got home. It is for my little cousins birthday! She is 6 yrs old. Would this be harmful to kids in any way? I know it is my fault, I should have read the menu first!
If it is harmful, I in no way will serve it to them. I will just have to run and get something else! But not sure what I will do with the cake!


Answers: I just bought a strawberry short cake. I didn't know it was yellow cake soaked in light brandy syrup!!! I read the description in the take home menu when I got home. It is for my little cousins birthday! She is 6 yrs old. Would this be harmful to kids in any way? I know it is my fault, I should have read the menu first!
If it is harmful, I in no way will serve it to them. I will just have to run and get something else! But not sure what I will do with the cake!

Call the place where you bought the cake. It all depends on whether the brandy was cooked at all. If the brandy was cooked when being made into a syrup, it's ok. Also, if the brandy was baked along with the cake, it's OK. If the brandy wasn't cooked when making the syrup or in baking the cake, then you shouldn't serve it to kids.

It's probably just brandy flavored and if it had brandy in it, it would have cooked out so I think you are ok, but a brandy cake may not be very appetizing to young children. You might want to go get something else, why not buy some cupcakes and ice cream.

eat it yourself. or with other adults. save it for another ocassion. WHEN THERES NO KIDS!

It will not harm any child unless a child has some odd allergy to liquor. But I don't think kid's taste buds will enjoy it...sorry. I ate peaches soaked in wine as a child....never had a drinking problem or got ill. In your case, another cake is in order.

if the brandy was baked in that would be a different story because the alcohol cooks out. Being that it was soaked after baking, I wouldn't do it. I don't think it would be harmful and the children may get a little inebriated but I wouldn't do it.

if you are the parent of the kids u r referring to just use your own discretion...usually when people use liquor to bake and cook things the potency of the liquor goes down.....if that makes sense.

Yes, when an item contians alcohol it 's usually cooked off in the baking process, only leaving behind the flavor. Vanilla extract has an alcohol in it and that is used in almost every baked item.

Call the place that made it.... if it is a cooked brandy it is fine... if it isn't.....then it could kill the kids.....or at the least get them drunk...

But if you can't find out right away..... make something else or buy an ice cream cake from Culvers or Dairy Queen.





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