This has been crossposted at Lisa Cooking.

If you want to send a great gift and brighten a solder’s day, then you need to use Bake Me A Wish.  Five percent of each cake they sell goes to a program they created called Operation: Birthday Cake, which sends cakes to our military serving in Iraq and Afghanistan on or close to their birthdays. Every holiday Bake Me a Wish! ships hundreds of cakes to the soldiers to add some sweetness to the holiday and offer a taste from home too.

How do they taste?  Yummy!  We tried the brownie cake and I have to admit it was very rich.  It was like no other brownie I’ve ever tried.  The topping on the brownie made it all the better!  I would definitely order another one of these again!  It will definitely take a couple of days to finish off one of these, but you’ll enjoy every single bite.

Have you heard of Bake Me A Wish! before? Bake Me A Wish! provides freshly baked occasional cakes for all seasons and celebrations. They deliver the cakes overnight in an elegant box with a personalized gift card. Now, you cannot leave their site without being hungry. I know that I wouldn’t mind a few of those cakes being sent to my house! They all look so good.  Granted, I may need to walk on a treadmill after that, but it’s all in the name of research, right?

The reason I am including them in my gift guide this year is because of what else they do.  When you order a cake from them, they send an identical cake to a soldier in Iraq for their birthday.  5% of all their orders is used to assist their efforts in sending gourmet occasion cakes to soldiers overseas.  Now, if you know someone over in Iraq who wouldn’t mind a gourmet birthday cake, make sure you forward their name to them.  I found myself tearing up just reading all the thank yous from soldiers receiving their cakes.

If you need a birthday cake, make sure you check out Bake Me A Wish! and see if you can help send a soldier a cake!