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No Added Sugar Banana Coconut Cake Recipe

Baby’s 1st Birthday Cake

Baking at home gives you full control over your ingredients, so use the best quality that you can find! We choose grass-fed and pasture-raised dairy and eggs, organic everything, and fresh and local products when possible.
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Equipment

  • 2-6" Cake Pans
  • A variety of mixing bowls
  • Electric mixer (or a wooden spoon and a strong, determined arm)
  • Measuring cups and spoons
  • Strainer
  • A fork or potato masher

Ingredients
  

Cake

  • 4 Ripe bananas (the riper the bananas, the sweeter the cake)
  • 1/3 cup Grass-fed butter (softened)
  • 3 Pasture-raised eggs
  • 1/2 cup Full fat yogurt
  • 1 tsp Vanilla (I used vanilla powder, feel free to use vanilla extract)
  • 1 1/2 cup All-purpose flour
  • 1 tsp Baking powder
  • 1/2 tsp Baking soda
  • 1 Pinch of salt
  • 1/4 cup Grass-fed whole milk (half & half, 2% milk, coconut milk, or any other plant-based milks work as well)

Frosting

  • 2 cups Heavy whipping cream
  • 2 cans Solid fat, no-added sugar no-guar coconut milk  (liquid separated out)
  • 1 block Cream cheese (8 ounces)
  • 1 tsp Vanilla
  • 1/8 cup Organic maple syrup to taste (for those who don’t want a very sweet frosting, 1/4 cup for some sweetness, 1/2 cup for a sweet frosting)

Instructions
 

  • Thirty minutes or so before you begin, pull the eggs, milk, and yogurt out of the fridge. Letting these ingredients get to room temperature will help your ingredients to bond faster and easier.
  • To get a more accurate measurement of flour, do not scoop the flour out of your container/bag with your measuring cup. Instead, use the spoon & level measuring technique to prevent getting too much flour.  
  • Only open the oven to check for doneness and take out your cake. Every time you open the oven, heat escapes and changes the way your cake will bake.

Cake

  • Preheat oven to 350°F / 170°C.
  • Prepare two cake pans by coating with butter.
  • Mash bananas with a fork or potato masher  in a large mixing bowl until relatively smooth.
  • Cream the butter with an electric mixer. (If you don’t have an electric mixer, you can cream the butter by hand or melting the butter).
  • Mix mashed bananas into the butter, then add the eggs, yogurt, and vanilla.
  • In a separate bowl whisk together the dry ingredients: flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt.
  • Stir the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients until everything is evenly combined. The batter should be thick but easily pourable. If your batter is too thick, add a splash of milk.
  • Divide the batter into two prepared prepared cake pans.
  • Bake at 350 F for 25-35 minutes or until an inserted toothpick comes out clean. Let the cake cool completely.

Frosting

  • Strain the contents of your coconut milk cans so that you only have the solids (meat/fat). Try to remove as much liquid as possible.
  • In a medium sized mixing bowl, use an electric mixer to cream the coconut fat with the cream cheese until relatively smooth. Or mix it together by hand!
  • In a separate mixing bowl, beat the heavy cream. Once it starts to thicken, add in coconut/cream cheese mixture and continue to blend until smooth.
  • Once smooth, add in the desired amount of maple syrup. Incorporate with spatula.
  • After the cake has cooled, frost and decorate the cake. I like to decorate with toasted coconut chips and sliced bananas. Serve chilled and enjoy!

Notes

Sweetened with banana and organic maple syrup, this cake is an excellent way to celebrate your little one’s birthday WITHOUT undermining your goals to reduce processed sugar. Everyone in our family, including the birthday girl, LOVED this No Added Sugar Banana Coconut Cake Recipe! We hope you’ll love it too!
Keyword Banana, cake, kids cake, kids nutrition, organic
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