For our little guy’s second birthday, I wanted to make him another healthy birthday cake, but this time, since he was older, I could go with one that was a little sweeter than the nearly unsweetened version I had made last year by Betty at Oh Everything Handmade. (Great first birthday smash cake recipe, by the way. Highly recommend.)
In my quest for a new recipe, I stumbled across the fantastic Honey Oat Cake recipe by Amy at Yummy Toddler Food.
Sadly, I wasn’t able to find oat flour and also didn’t have time to grind some up in time for all the festivities, so I changed things up and used coconut flour with a bit of rice flour (to help stabilize the coconut flour) instead. Below is my modified recipe based on Amy’s original recipe. Note that the portions in my cake recipe are a bit more than in her recipe, as I needed to make a larger cake for daycare.
Ingredients (serves about 8-10 people):
- Cake:
- 1-1/4 cup of coconut flour
- 3/4 cup of rice flour
- 1 tablespoons of coconut palm sugar
- 1/3 teaspoon of salt
- 1-1/3 teaspoon of baking soda
- 6 eggs
- 2 cups of milk
- 1/2 cup melted butter, slightly cooled
- 3/4 cup honey
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- Frosting:
- 1 500g tub of plain Liberté Greek Yoghurt
- (Optional) 1 block of plain cream cheese
- (Optional) Food colouring