The “Better for You” Carrot Cake

My son just turned 2 a few months ago. For those of you who have been following my blog, you know that I haven’t introduced my son to sugar or any of its forms yet. In fact, his first birthday cake was quite a task since I made it with only the few ingredients he was introduced to before he turned 1! If you haven’t already seen the recipe for that cake, you can check it out here.

Now that he was going to turn 2, I wanted to bake a different cake for him, but without the refined flour or white sugar. Thats why I decided on carrot cake and used as little honey as I could to sweeten the cake. I must say, what I ended up with was melt in the mouth delicious! Here’s how my cake turned out:

A quick and easy way to bake with kids

My son’s preschool has this system where they conduct activities within the class on a different theme every month. For example. in August, the theme was “music” and one activity during every school day was centered around this theme. In September, the theme chosen was “food” and for one of the activities under this theme, I was asked to visit the school and conduct a “cake baking class” with the kids.

Cooking with kids can be a lot of fun. But when you’re talking of 10 kids in the age group of 1.5 to 3.5 years of age, it can be quite a task. Kids in this age group have a super short attention span, lack the dexterity and skill that older kids have and are also typically more interested in running around and playing than sitting in one place and doing something. And baking. in general, requires the absolute opposite of all these traits. So, how was I going to pull this off?