The First Years Home Made Bday Cake Ideas

 

She is turning one year very soon! And I have been thinking of how much effort I been putting towards her nutrition. Making sure she is well nourished with organic food and home made meals of carrots, apples and you all know the rest. Then comes the first Birth Day cake and it all goes down hill with all the sugar and preservatives from store cakes to home made box cakes filled with not very organic nourishing ingredients. And I know.. What ever! It’s their first Birthday Cake nothing happened to us.  But for me is making sense to make the effort to make a very tasty not so unhealthy sweet home made cake. So I Been researching on how and what are the possibilities here are some I found and wanted to share with you all. 


Use applesauce instead of oil ia a very simple one.

Make a Pumpkin Vegan cake or muffins wit the following

2 1/4 cups flour

1 cup brown sugar

1 tbsp baking powder

1 tsp cinnamon

1/4 tsp salt

1/2 tsp baking soda

1/4 tsp nutmeg

1/8 tsp ground ginger

1 1/4 cups pumpkin puree (10 ounces)

1/2 cups soy milk

Egg replacer for 2 eggs

1/3 cup vegan margarine

http://vegetarian.about.com/od/breakfastrecipe1/r/pumpkinmuffins.htm

I made this muffins a few months I only used organic ingredients and whole-wheat organic flour and I loved them!

The frostings make it with whipped cream cheese or organic cream and a bit of natural sugar

A based organic carrot cake would be another good idea

http://vegetarian.about.com/od/desertrecipes/r/vegancarrotcake.htm

•              2 cups organic grated carrots

•              1 1/2 cups organic raisins

•              2 cups water

•              1 1/2 tsp organic cinnamon

•              1 1/2 tsp organic allspice

•              1/2 tsp organic cloves

•              1 cup sugar

•              1/2 tsp salt

•              3 cups whole-wheat organic flour

1 1/2 tsp organic baking soda

Another idea for the frosting is Mix 1 tub of cool whip with 1 small package of instant pudding (any flavor & you can even use sugar free). Frost the cake then refrigerate (in the refrigerator the icing will thicken to regular butter cream consistency). The only drawback is that you can't use it as decorating icing (it's not firm enough to make flowers with).

I hope the ideas are helpful for some moms out there.

Much Love,

Anny.