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Healthy Sugar Free Smash Cake

a nutritious, sugar free smash cake for your one year old's birthday party. Double the recipe to make a 2 layer cake

Course Dessert
Cuisine American
Keyword birthday cake, smash cake
Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 25 minutes
Total Time 50 minutes
Servings 1 6" cake

Ingredients

Cake

  • 1 1/4 cup whole wheat flour (you can sub white flour)
  • 1 tsp baking powder
  • 1/2 tsp baking soda
  • 1/4 cup cocoa powder
  • 3 very ripe bananas
  • 3 strawberries
  • 1/4 cup applesauce
  • 1/4 cup choice milk
  • 1 egg
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract

Frosting

  • 1 cup heavy whipping cream (or sub full fat coconut milk**)
  • 1/2 cup freeze dried fruit (I used beets, but sub strawberries, blueberries etc)

Instructions

Cake

  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees and grease 6" cake pan

  2. In a mixing bowl, sift together the flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt

  3. Place 2 bananas (the third banana is for the frosting), 3 strawberries and applesauce together in a blender and mix until completely pureed.

  4. In another small bowl, whisk together 1 cup of the fruit puree, the milk, egg and vanilla extract

  5. Add the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients and stir until combined

  6. Pour the batter into the prepared pan, and bake for 20-25 minutes, or until a toothpick comes out clean

  7. Allow the cake to cool for 10 minutes in the pan before removing to a wire rack to continue cooling.

Frosting

  1. For best results, place a mixing bowl and beater in the fridge for several hours before you are about to prepare the whipped cream

  2. Take the freezer dried fruit and put in either a coffee grinder or a blender until it's blended like powder

  3. Pour the whipped cream, and the 1 ripe banana into the chilled bowl, and beat on high with an electric mixer 

  4. As you're mixing the whipped cream, slowly add the freezer dried fruit until your desired color and desired consistency (it should be thick but smooth enough to frost your cake. Remember butter is simply whipped cream)

  5. Frost the bottom cake and once that's frosted, place the second cake on top and frost that. I recommend doing this no more than 3 hours before serving

Recipe Notes

  1. I made two different 6" pans - one had the 1/4 cup cocoa powder and my second cake did not, as I wanted to create a layered effects
  2. If you want to add some natural sprinkles, get a variety of freezer dried fruit (mango, blueberries, strawberries, coconut shavings etc) and roughly chop them and sprinkle it on the cake