Cakes for Kids
This program is an initiative dedicated to honoring and celebrating foster children, who often face the challenges of an unstable environment.
What you’re funding
This program is an initiative dedicated to honoring and celebrating foster children, who often face the challenges of an unstable environment. Through personalized cakes for their special occasions, we aim to help these children feel valued and loved, offering a moment of joy and connection in the face of adversity.
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About Celebrate with a Cake
Celebrate with a Cake is about a very specific kind of care: a personalized cake showing up when a child in foster care or a young person with disabilities deserves to be celebrated. The work is simple to understand and hard to forget, because it centers the cake itself as the moment, not just a nice extra. If you want to support something that helps children and caregivers feel seen, this is that kind of organization.
What sets Celebrate with a Cake apart is how fully it leans into custom cakes as the celebration itself. That means cakes for children in foster care, and sensory-adapted cakes for people with disabilities, so more kids can be included in the milestones that matter.
About this work
In their own words — what they do, who it reaches, and what your dollars actually fund.
Mission
Celebrate with a Cake creates a world where everyone is celebrated, and it empowers youth and their caregivers through custom cakes that create positive memories and encouragement.
Who they serve
Children in foster care, youth with disabilities, and their caregivers.
Their impact
- 5 youth served in the Houston area
How your donation helps
- Cakes for Kids
- Sensory Celebrations
- events
- cake ingredients and supplies
Programs
Cakes for Kids
Personalized cakes for children in foster care, designed to honor special occasions and help children feel valued and loved.
Sensory Celebrations
Custom cakes for individuals with disabilities, adapted to their needs so they can be included in milestone celebrations.
Stories
Need help?
Children are served through affiliated organizations such as school systems, equine therapy centers, foster care systems, churches, and other child-serving nonprofits. Caregivers complete a questionnaire for allergies, and cakes are delivered to the agreed meeting or drop-off location.
Events
Sensory Event with Houston Moms of Autism 2024
2024A sensory event with Houston Moms of Autism.
Christmas Celebration 2024
2024A holiday celebration listed among the organization's events.
Diagnostic Intelligence Assessment Group Sensory Birthday Event
2024A sensory birthday event held at Double Dave's in Missouri City.
Ways to help
Current needs
- Sponsorships from individuals and organizations
- Volunteers who can bake and deliver cakes
Volunteer opportunities
- Join the celebration crew online and complete the Serve Safe Food Handlers certification
- Choose a cake from the task list calendar
- Bake and decorate a cake according to the guidelines
- Take photos, box the cake, and transport it to the agreed location
- Host a bake sale
Partners & funders
Full Celebrate with a Cake profile → · IRS filing (ProPublica)