[Jill0905]

How did/will you make your dc 1st birthday cake? the time is just around the corner

and need to start planning. I will have a "regular" cake for everyone else (sugar and more sugar) but i want ds to have something different.

 

[TortelliniMama]

I made this cake for ds's 1st bday. I made a little one for him, and also used it for the top layer of the cake for everyone else. I either replaced the dates with chopped raisins or left them out altogether (can't remember).

http://www.pcrm.org/health/recipes/recipe040414.html

I used the cream cheese frosting recipe from the bottom of this page to frost the little cake. (There are a number of other cake recipes on this page, too.)

http://www.wholesomebabyfood.com/tipFirstBDay.htm

Have fun!

 

[tsfairy]

We had a "regular" grocery store cake for everyone else, and I made the "eggless sugarless carrot cake" from the Whole Foods for the Whole Family LLL cookbook. Instead of dates (only because I was out of them) I used a tropical dried fruit mix I had (which worked out really well b/c we had a Luau theme for DS's party.) It did have a little bit of sugar, but not much when all was said and done. I frosted it with plain old whipped heavy cream. DS had already been eating some dairy for a while so the frosting wasn't a big deal, I just didn't want him on the major sugar high that regular cake would give him! (He did have a couple of teeeeeeny bites of my cake though, while he was eating his own cake.) The LLL cake was a hit b/c we had 2 diabetics and a lo-carber who couldn't/didn't want to eat the regular cake.

 

[OHmidwife]

My son turned one in July, and with all the lovely fruits in season, I made him a "cake" out of a pile of fruit (cherries, blueberries, strawberries) and stuck a candle in a strawberry. He loved it! There is a picture of it on this page: http://my.stratos.net/~midwife/vacation2006.html
My theory is to not give him sugar till he's old enough to ask for it. So far, so good...

 

[Robin926]

i made ds the carrot cake and cream cheese icing from the wholesomebabyfood link up the page. it's all sweetened w/ apple juice, no sugar! it was a hit w/ the adults too.

 

[ellacy]

I put a plop of yogurt in a dessert cup, slid 4 little graham cracker rectangles along the sides, sprinkled a few strawberry slices w/ a whole strawberry in the middle. A candle was in the whole strawberry. DD loved it!

 

[Mama Poot]

We had cake for everyone else and a pumpkin pie for DS. He LOVED it, and he didn't get all the refined sugar and junk he'd get if he ate the cake.

 

[EmilyS]

When we were little my mom would make a corn bread "pie" in a cast iron skillet and stick candles in that. It was festive but with a minimum of sugar. We had this for our first 3 birthdays or something like that. I wasn't even allowed to have a cookei until I was like 8 and I had one at a Christmas party for the first time. We did have carob brownies whenw e were little but ti was made with applesauce to sweeten it and i remember it wasn't really very sweet. Anyway...

 

[guestmama9911]

Subbing - my son's first birthday is in a month.