Healthy First Birthday cake

[lalibela]

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!

Cake, by definition, is Gloriously Unhealthy. It is what makes it the divine foodstuff that it is.

This is a great site - tips on replacing eggs with silken tofu/bananas/yoghurt (soya yoghurt is specified, but that's obviously for dairy-free diets so dairy yoghurt would be fine too)

Handy because it gives you the amounts to use per egg IYSWIM.

I've used bananas and tofu in place of eggs in cake recipes quite successfully (dh is vegan)

Like I said, I always use some sugar so I can't help on that score!

has no dairy but obviously looks far too cake-like and has sugar in it, in glorious excess

oh, dairy free too?
[gives up]

Baby Hab's birthday cake was this. All the babies ate the topping, adults ate cake. Win win, frankly. Will post recipe if anyone wants it.

Giggle, well I certainly won't ever dare to post on here again -- clearly the issue of cake is a very serious matter! Have no problems with sugar and am a big cake fan myself, but as we haven't got further than veg and fruit and mushed up meat puree with dd a full blown cake seemed a bit of a big step. (Perhaps everyone else just has much more advanced children then me, who are all nibbling Maison Blanc gateaux?) Will go away and make my own version of humble pie in the form of Mrs Badger's whipped cream and fruit puree thingie, which sounds yummy.

I don't understand this

does dd have allergies?

or is she just a PFB?

I remember my dd1's first birthday was dreadful - she was diagnosed with CP exactly a month before and had her first physio appointment on her birthday itself

I bought her a muffin from the shop - it probably had hydrogenated fat and arsenic in it - and stuck a candle in it and wept while she wolfed it down

she is still alive 6 years later so I do not think it killed her

would 'get over yourself' be too harsh?

Lalibella - seriously - plain cake - yoghurt mixed with pureed red fruit on top, shedloads of fruit on top of that. The babies just harvest the fruit, you eat the rest.

I still say

Not mad

Not depressing and joyless

you have no idea the fun you can have making and scoffing egg-free cakes (ok, not sugar-free in this house, but still)

Dh and dd bake loads - all vegan - and dd gets very put out if we make a cake that dad can't have

it just depends on your perspective.

I think the fruit puree/cream mousse is a nice idea.

PFB, Capp

tbh a 1yo who is still only eating fruit / veg / meat purees would concern me more than one who was eating Maison Blanc patisserie. But then dd (6mo) is happily BLWing on steak and roast chicken so I may be biased...

You are all being too hard on OP

May be PFB syndrome, but where's the harm?

tmmj it will not be minging (I am evangelical about this, can you tell?!)

And you don't need to used "processed egg substitute"

Humph. I'm having a bad day Tell me how wonderful my cake is or I'll let DD and her puking snotty face loose on MN.

lalibela PLEASE look at my link

My posts are maybe getting lost in all the

Bloody hell Hab that is fantastic!!

Can I have the recipe please? Dd is a real fruit bat and her eyes would be on stalks if I made that

Hab, it's a wonderful cake, a miracle of the patisseire's art, the veritable pinnacle of what can be achieved with, er, fruit.

[brandishes snotty BadgerCub in self-defence]

lol MrsB

my friend was delighted the other day when she was bemoaning the fact that her baby would not eat anything but a sausage in his hand

She is not a mner and did not know about BLW

we convinced each other that she was an instinctively fantastic BLW parent and that her son's sausage was the sign of inherent maternal amazingness

Mrs B, I suspect you are not entirely sincere. And I'll raise you two puky sleeping bags, 2 sets pyjamas, 1 vest, 1 pair mocassins, 2 teddys and 1 cat (stuffed) to your one snotty nose. But it was a shameless fishing expedition, so I got what I deserved.

Doggie - will go and get it. TBH, I reckon you could use any very plain, quite firm cake as a base, and then you just mix natural yoghurt with pureed fruit to get the fruit to stick on. I did another one in the shape of a parrot.

That's a lot of puke Habbibu. You make the cake sound easy but then I am not a good improviser (lack baking confidence)

I am in the huff now actually. I have stood up for OP AND posted helpful links etc and OP has ignored me.

that's the last time I leap to anyone's defence on here

Where's the cake worship, LL? And why aren't you lot on my plea for sympathy thread?

I cannot beleive there are people here trying to find recipe's for a healthy cake.

WTF?

its a cake. your child will eat 1 maybe 2 slices.
she will not become morbidly obese but you never know...she may just enjoy herself.

for heavans sake. such things in moderation are GOOD for them. they show them that such food is not evil, it wont kill them and its nice, it just shouldnt' be eaten daily.

[stunned]

I'm happy to admit to cake worshipping.

Habbibu - cake (more of a tart, I'd say) looks fab. But fruit isn't celebration food really, is it? Unless it's seriously messed about with, in which case LOs will usually reject it. My fruitbat did.

A simple cake is easier and more likely to be greeted with satisfying yums. And easier to stick a candle in.

I thnk with a one-year-old the celebration is ore for your friends and family..so i would make a fabulous cake to share - and have something which your dd enjoys to keep her happy.

Egg-free cakes are fine - have made loads - but sugar free is harder, if there is no egg.