Last week we celebrated Lukas birthday and today I would like to share with you the recipe of the cake I made for him. I aimed for something sugar free of course that is suitable for a baby. I made sure to include banana in it just because Lukas loooovesss banana very much (maybe he is a minion who knows :D) and also because it adds some sweetness. The cake of course wasn’t very sweet. I would say it was a brioche sweetness level. I also thought that it is better eaten warm, but I had to cool it down unfortunately to decorate it and make it look a little bit more festive ;-). For “butter cream” I just used whipping cream, so it wasn’t sweet at all, but actually Lukas liked it very much so I guess it’s ok ;-).
BABY BIRTHDAY CAKE
(for the cake)
- 150g banana (about 1-2 bananas depending on size)
- 1 egg
- 60ml oil (I used refined olive oil, but rapeseed oil would probably be better)
- 330g plain flour
- 27g oats (I used pack of portioned porridge oats that actually comes in 27g)
- 2tsp baking powder
- 125ml milk
- 3tbsp yogurt (I used greek style yogurt, but natural yogurt would work fine too)
(for decorations)
- whipping cream, whipped till stiff (one tube of 300ml will do)
- no added sugar chocolate (there is no such thing as sugar free chocolate my friends!)
- blueberries (or any type of other berries that are sweet)
1. Whizz bananas, egg and oil in the food processor. Add all other ingredients and mix everything to combine.
2. Spoon the cake dough into small lined spring form tins (mine filled 4 tins).
3. Place the tins into preheated 180C oven and bake the cakes for 20min or so.
4. Meanwhile I made chocolate cake decorations. I must admit I got little rusty, because I have not done it for aaaaages! I melted some chocolate, poured into pouch I made out of backing paper and cut the hole in it so I could pipe the chocolate out. I lined a metal baking tin with backing paper and piped chocolate on it in the leaf shapes. Placed it in the freezer for few minutes to set. Done!
5. Next up is decorating! Sandwich the cake by spreading whipped cream in between and then spread more on top and around to ice the cake. My tip is to really wait till the cakes are cool and trim the tops off, that really helps to make the cake square and therefore easy to ice.
Once the cake is iced, decorate it by piping some more whipped cream on top, sprinkling with blueberries and arranging some chocolate decorations on top if you wish.
Hope your baby likes it too 😉
Rasa xx