Chances are, unless you had a really horrid childhood, your parents had a go at making you a birthday cake from the Australian Women’s Weekly Children’s Birthday Cake Book. And if you were truly loved, then you got the coloured popcorn train cake or the candy castle finished with upside ice cream cones (not just the giant number nine covered in Smarties).

If you still have a copy of the 1980s cult cookbook, it’s probably covered in dog ears and tears by now, with several pages glued together with brightly coloured icing. If you haven’t outgrown the idea of an annual novelty cake and you want to keep the family tradition alive, you can now upgrade to this shiny new 40th-anniversary edition.

While the cover may have lost some of its retro charm (sorry, but it’s true), inside, you’ll find the same 50 cake recipes that made your birthday the bestest day of the year every year, including the blue jelly swimming pool, Humpty Dumpty on the wall, even that popcorn-covered duck with potato chip lips.

General Manager of Publishing for Bauer Media Sally Eagle said: “The Australian Women’s Weekly Children’s Birthday Cake Book has been a part of family birthday traditions for over four decades. We are excited to bring this special 40th-anniversary edition to life to not only celebrate the incredible imaginations behind this cookbook but also to keep the tradition alive for future generations.”

This 40th-anniversary limited edition Children’s Cake Cookbook is available to purchase from newsagents and supermarkets from August 17 and bookstores from August 18 for $19.99.