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Healthy First Birthday cake

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lalibela · 14/02/2008 10:36

Has anyone got a recipe for a healthy, but yummy, cake? Our dd hasn't had any sugar or eggs yet and loves fruit, but I can't find a simple cake recipe on those lines anywhere. I am not the best cook, but was thinking of baking it on Sat ready for Sun and have a great 'One' candle to stick on the top -- fancy shapes and icing are probably a bit beyond me!

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MamaG · 14/02/2008 10:39

You want a cake with no sugar and eggs? Is that right?

funnyhaha · 14/02/2008 10:40

Can't think of anything that has neither sugar or eggs... can only do no eggs
DS had a carrot cake (really does have a LOT of carrots in it )

Marne · 14/02/2008 10:41

Is'nt cake supposed to be unhealthy, thats what makes it a special treat.

wannaBe · 14/02/2008 10:43

"our dd hasn't had any sugar or eggs yet", well you have to start somewhere .

themildmanneredjanitor · 14/02/2008 10:45

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ZippiBabes · 14/02/2008 10:46

can still be healthy with eggs and sugar and it is cake after all not daily diet

you could make a lot of fairy cakes and spell her name with them and have them artfullyy stacked up and make one look like a fairy cake but actually different things you do let dd eat

Brangelina · 14/02/2008 10:46

You can do a cake without sugar (as in the granulated stuff) but you just substitute it with loads of dried fruit, or banana or whatever. I make a banana bread that uses a lot of bananas and I use molasses to replace the sugar (molasses contains iron, so not all empty calories ISWIM). I can't help you re no eggs, though. Is your dd allergic to eggs? If not, they can eat it at 1yo (I started my dd on them at that age) and the amount she'll be eating in a cake will be tiny.

bamboostalks · 14/02/2008 11:20

If she is eating food then she is eating sugar, it's in everything...huge amounts in fruit so chill out.

MrsBadger · 14/02/2008 11:24

She doesn't know birthdays are meant to have cake
stick the candle in a banana

wannaBe · 14/02/2008 11:24

actually good point. does she eat:

bread? yoghurt? because both of those contain sugar. fruit contains natural sugar.

MrsMattie · 14/02/2008 11:26

One littler fair cake with a candle in it? Not going to kill her!

MaryAnnSingleton · 14/02/2008 11:27

I made an eggless sponge for ds for evacuee day but I think birthday cake ought to be choc full of yummy stuff - it's only 1 cake !

lulu25 · 14/02/2008 11:27

my ds had profiteroles filled with cream and topped with chocolate ganache. no added sugar in any of it, although i can't help on the eggs.

Brangelina · 14/02/2008 11:28

Well my DD didn't have anything that contained added sugar (as in empty calories) until she was well over a year. I see nothing wrong with the OP wanting to avoid that for her DD. I know that fruit contains sugar, in truth all carbohydrate (including, brad, rice, pasta etc.) is broken down into glucose, but the difference is that fruit and dried fruit also contain vitamins and minerals, so are not really empty calories, such as a sweet or a fruitshoot would be. I also wanted to avoid that excessively sweet taste that came with added sugar foods, so as to avoid her developing too much of a sweet tooth.

Having said that, I did relax at around 1yo, you have to otherwise you'd never go out. DD's ist birthday cake was an ice cream hedgehog (from a proper ice cream shop, mind, not that Walls stuff).

MaryAnnSingleton · 14/02/2008 11:28

and are you putting icing on the sugarless eggless cake too ?!

castille · 14/02/2008 11:32

at sugarless eggless healthy "cake"! It is his birthday. Make something you will all enjoy, it's a celebration, surely?

castille · 14/02/2008 11:32

her birthday, sorry

MaryAnnSingleton · 14/02/2008 11:33

ds's first cake was an unhealthy sponge made by local bakers with lots of blue icing - he ate a small bit and everyone else scoffed the rest...

SauerKraut · 14/02/2008 11:36

You could compromise and make a carrot cake- Delia has a beeeyoootiful recipe with all wholemeal flour, raisins and a cream cheese frosting. It has sugar but loads of vitamins etc and is absolutely delicious.

doggiesayswoof · 14/02/2008 11:36

Em... why is it so mad to want to make a sugarless eggless cake?

comments like 'it will not kill her' are hardly helpful are they?

Egg-free is definitely easy - trying googling vegan/dairy-free/egg-free baking and you might come up with something that way

I used to have a Rose Elliott book that had loads of sugarless and eggless baking (but it's disappeared) - would recommend getting one of her books if you are going to do more baking like this. Brangelina is right, you just need to substitute molasses or fruit or something if you are not using processed sugar.

The alternative - this is what I do - is to use a recipe with a small amount of unrefined (ie brown) sugar. Not quite so processed.

Hold on and I will try and find a recipe.

MrsMattie · 14/02/2008 11:36

...or don't have cake????

themildmanneredjanitor · 14/02/2008 11:37

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MaryAnnSingleton · 14/02/2008 11:38

the eggless cake for evacuee day was actually very nice - sorry I can't find recipe though

MaryAnnSingleton · 14/02/2008 11:39

doggies - I think people just felt that an eggless, sugarless cake was rather a depressing and joyless birthday prospect

MrsBadger · 14/02/2008 11:41

well if it is only sugar and eggs you are worried about, make a spectacular mousse of whipped cream and fruit puree (set with gelatin if need be) and stick the candle in that.

Making a cakey cake without eggs, sugar or processed egg-substitute could be tricky.

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