Healthy Birthday Cake

I want to do a healthy (ok, I know it won't exactly be "healthy", but not as unhealthy as a regular cake) birthday cake for the girls. I am very picky about what they eat, so I don't want to use any sugar. I was also wondering about the icing. I definitely don't want traditional icing, but I would still like something to be on the cake (so they can be messy and make cute pics!). I was thinking of putting yogurt on their pieces as the icing, but I'm not sure. Is anyone else planning on doing a healthy cake, and if so what are you doing? Thanks!

 

Look here for some ideas:

Baby's First cake recipes

 

I am doing sugar free cakes for my girls. The grown up can eat regular cake but I dont want my girls having all that sugar. I think cake is gross!

My sister found a few recipes online for sugar free frosting. It was like cream cheese and vanilla yogurt (maybe but not positive).

We can share recipes if we find a good one!!

 

I don't how healthy these are but Pillsbury has a line of reduced sugar cakes and frostings as well.

 

Maybe some kind of Carrot cake?? Not sure if that is healthy though, I don't think I have ever had a healthy cake before :laughing:

 

QUOTE(tamaras @ Sep 30 2008, 01:35 PM) [snapback]1005234[/snapback]
Maybe some kind of Carrot cake?? Not sure if that is healthy though, I don't think I have ever had a healthy cake before :laughing:


Me either! :bow2: for making a cake at all, let alone a healthy cake! I just ordered 3 cakes today for my girls first birthday. I'm guessing they aren't really going to eat their cake anyway. Maybe if it was yogurt for frosting they would actually eat some.

 

I'm planning on carrot cake with cream cheese icing... and not much sugar in the cake.

I think wholesomebabygood has a few recipes.

 

QUOTE(Fran27 @ Sep 30 2008, 11:38 PM) [snapback]1005705[/snapback]
I'm planning on carrot cake with cream cheese icing... and not much sugar in the cake.

I think wholesomebabygood has a few recipes.



This is what I did. They didn't eat it. No surprise! They didn't eat any cake til b-day 2! Careful with cake mixes...partially hydrogenated fat! (is correlated to cancer and atherosclerosis).

 

I think there is a recipe on wholesomebabyfood.com (if I remember right). I am defintely not giving the babies sugary cake for their first birthday.

 

Hi,
I'm facing the same question. I talked to my local baker and he suggested either a applesauce cake instead of sugar or a carrot cake. He said for first birthday's he normally pushes these type becuase of food allergies.

I think i'm going to do a normal cake for the adults and 2 small applesauce cakes for the boys...since I know they are going to destroy them rather then eat them.

Good luck!

 

There's a healthy birthday cake recipe at the back of "What to Expect During the First Year" (that's the title, right?) -- that's what I did for the girls. I made them big cupcakes. Then I served everyone else real cake.