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Baby's Healthy First Birthday Cake

Serves: 8

Ingredients:

4 or 5 ripe bananas
¾ cup organic cinnamon apple sauce
1 teaspoon baking soda
1½ cups whole wheat flour
3 teaspoons vanilla extract
1 teaspoon cinnamon
¼ teaspoon nutmeg
2 egg whites, beaten

For The Frosting
1 cups (8 ounces) cream cheese (if you need to make more frosting, double the ingredients)
¼ cup (2 ounces) organic cinnamon apple sauce
1 teaspoons pure vanilla extract (******* free)

Instructions:

Mash the bananas in a medium bowl.
In a separate large bowl, mix the flour, baking soda, cinnamon, and nutmeg together.
Add the mashed bananas, applesauce, and vanilla to the flour mixture. Mix just until incorporated. Beat two egg whites until you receive a cone when pulling out the whisk, fold in carefully the beaten egg whites.
Spray your 8 or 9″round (6″ pans are perfect for this) pans with non-stick cooking spray or coat with butter and flour.
Spread the batter into the bottom of both pans.
Bake at 400° for 20 minutes.
Cool the cakes, then use an overturned 16oz glade storage round to cut out 4 small cake rounds.
Prepare the frosting, add in between each layer 2 tbsp. of your cream cheese mixture. When all layers are stacked on top of each other, cover the cake with the remaining frosting and decorate as desired.

For The Frosting
Soften the cream cheese.
Whisk the cream cheese with the apple sauce and vanilla extract until creamy.
Decorate as desired!


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