1st b-day ideas for a babe still on purees?

[lkmiscnet]

I've seen my own 1st birthday photos and there's the cake with the big #1 on it. Not sure if I was capable of eating it or if it was just for my parents and the photo ops.

That said, my LO will be 1 in a month and I want to plan ahead to do something for his birthday, but not sure what to do for a "cake".

I want something healthy, so don't want to do something with sugary icing on it. Should I go ahead with a cupcake (no frosting) and let him mash it with his fingers or are there other suggestions?

What do you do for a baby's birthday when they haven't mastered solids yet?

He vomited when he put a puff in his mouth, so I can't imagine cake would go much better.

[Boot]

There are loads of healthy cake recipes on the internet. For DS I made a sugar free carrot cake. It was sweetened with apple juice and was really yummy. I made frosting with cream cheese, agar agar and apple juice too.

If you think he'll vomit though I would just give him something he likes like apple sauce and have the cake for everyone else. Who wants to vomit at their party?

[Forthwith]

If you wanted to make something special, you could try something like this Strawberry Cream recipe. There's 1/3 cup sugar in 8 portions, so it's pretty healthy, and I can attest that it is both delicious and easy to make. I think if you cooled it in a cupcake tin it would keep its shape well enough to be a 'cake.'

[Flower of Bliss]

We gave DD1 watermelon in a cupcake wrapper topped with yogurt. It was easy, food she was already eating and enjoyed, healthy, and sufficiently messy and cake like.

[Erinz]

I went to a bday party a while back where the birthday girl had a big bowl of guacamole (really just mushed avo but really mushed) and she had a BLAST with it and I thought it was just brilliant.

[CowsRock]

My son still wasn't eating a lot at one, so for family parties I had a "cake" that was just a small hill of crumbled up muffin and a toy truck, so a truck and dirt. He enjoyed playing with it and maybe ate a few pieces. For his actual birthday at home, we stripped him down to diaper and gave him a bowl of yogurt and he loooved it. The yogurt pictures are the pictures we enjoy looking back at the most too for what that is worth.

[Carhootel]

we did muffins - grainy good stuff and I made greek yogurt "frosting" to go on top. I had friends who had good luck with the first birthday cakes from wholesomebabyfood.com