• FOOD
  • HOME
  • SELF
  • HEALTH
  • FAMILY

Natural New Age Mum

Happy. Healthy. Holistic.

  • Home
  • Recipes
  • Shop
  • About
    • Privacy Policy and Terms and Conditions

Six Healthy Birthday Cakes

March 4, 2013 · 56 Comments

Six Healthy Birthday Cakes

The cake is always the star of a birthday party, especially for kids!

Making a home-made cake means you can control what’s in it, it won’t cost you an arm and a leg and has the special ingredient – mum love! ♥

Check out these six fabulous ideas for healthier birthday cakes. I personally think they are yummier than the sweet, sickly rich cakes.

If you want a bigger cake, double the recipe and stack two on top of each other or bake in a large rectangular pan.

I also have some healthy icing and decoration options for you.

 

Healthy Chocolate Birthday Cake  (aka Sonia’s Chocolate Yoghurt Cake)

 

Easy Healthy Cake by Georgia at Well Nourished

 

Strawberry Cake by Tash at Fur Kids and Food.

 

Chocolate and Beetroot Birthday Cake by Jude Blereau at Whole Food Cooking

 

 

Gluten-Free Thyme and Lemon Cake with Vanilla Bean Frosting by Kelly Gibney

 

Grain, dairy and refined sugar free birthday cake by Urban Poser

 

Fresh Fruit Watermelon Cake by Apron Strings

 

You might also like to try my Rich Chocolate Cake, Banana Breads,  Coconut Hummingbird Cake or the Crio Bru Chocolate Fruit Cake.

Can you tell I love cake?

♥ Healthier Icing

Icing or frosting usually is a heap of icing sugar! Tasty but not so healthy! Here are some other options that still taste great but are a bit healthier.

Gooey Chocolate Icing

Raw Chocolate Glaze

Coconut Cream Whip

Paleo Chocolate Frosting

Chocolate Avocado Mousse

Cream cheese with honey

Fresh organic cream

Marscapone cheese mixed with pureed berries and honey to taste

Avoid food colouring if you can – that’s where all the nasty additives hide.  Source some natural food colourings like Hoppers just make your own natural food colourings.

To make an easy chocolate icing, add a couple of spoons of raw cacao,  Superfoods for Kidz Berry Choc Chunk powder or melted dark chocolate and mix with cream, cream cheese or whipped coconut cream.

   

♥ Healthier Cake Decorations

Fresh fruit is always a winner. Use cookie cutters to make fun shapes.

Hoppers make a range of natural sprinkles that are free from artificial colours and flavours

Chopped nuts

Fresh flowers

Bliss balls

Natural Confectionery Company lollies (still sugar but there is no artifical stuff)

Organic Times Gems (a healthier Smartie)

You can also decorate with non-edible items like toys (just take them off before you eat!). A couple of my kid’s favourite cakes have been a dolly varden, a cake with Bob the Builder toy and bulldozer and a cake with a Steve Irwin doll, plastic trees and a few Natural Confectionery Company crocodiles!

Sparklers are not so great as the metal flakes they give off are not safe to ingest. If you want to use birthday candles, beeswax are the safest option.

I would love to hear your ideas and tips for making a healthier birthday cake.  You can upload your photos to my Facebook Page, Natural New Age Mum.

 

Pin Me!

 

Related

Sharing is caring!

1.5K shares
  • Share722
  • Tweet
   

Filed In: FOOD / Tagged: cake, chocolate, chocolate cake, fruit cake, healthy birthday cake, healthy cake, icing, kids, party

Comments

  1. Kristin from Mamacino says

    March 4, 2013 at 1:22 pm

    I am totally drooling and now starving for a piece of cake…can’t wait until Sunday…I might just indulge in one of these x

    Reply
    • Kelly says

      March 4, 2013 at 3:07 pm

      Yes I agree with Kirstin – cake cake cake!!! MMmmmm.
      I wanted to ask what the deal is with rapadura sugar and how that compares to white sugar?

      Reply
      • Natural New Age Mum says

        March 4, 2013 at 5:00 pm

        rapadura is dehydrated sugar cane juice, it hasn’t had all the heavy processing of white sugar and had goodness stripped out of it… it’s a much better way to eat sugar… take a look at this video….http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezHj8QnYbbA

        Reply
        • Alison says

          March 6, 2013 at 8:13 am

          Just wondering – can you replace the sugar (and a bit of the liquid) with some apple puree instead??
          I have a choc brownie recipe that uses apple puree and not sugar, and its sweet enough

        • Natural New Age Mum says

          March 6, 2013 at 8:21 am

          It depends on the recipe. I love using apple puree, but sometimes it’s too wet to do a straight swap in recipes 🙂

    • Natural New Age Mum says

      March 4, 2013 at 5:01 pm

      you can do it! x

      Reply
  2. Alisha lynch says

    March 4, 2013 at 3:12 pm

    Oh my god Sonia, you are amazing! Thanks for this share, with a first bday coming up in this house, will make one of these cakes and proudly take a photo for you!! X

    Reply
    • Natural New Age Mum says

      March 4, 2013 at 4:55 pm

      I am sure little fella will love it!

      Reply
  3. Rebecca Mugridge says

    March 4, 2013 at 5:26 pm

    What a lovely post.
    I never thought about the candles!

    Reply
    • Natural New Age Mum says

      March 4, 2013 at 5:29 pm

      thanks Rebbeca… I didn’t either until I started thinking more about it!!! eeeek!

      Reply
  4. Alexx says

    March 4, 2013 at 8:56 pm

    Am now contemplating making cake at 10pm. What a fabulous collation!
    Sharing x

    Reply
    • Natural New Age Mum says

      March 4, 2013 at 8:57 pm

      thanks Alexx – they are all fabulous!

      Reply
  5. Jo (down to earth mother) says

    March 4, 2013 at 9:07 pm

    Perfect timing! I have to make a cake for Mr Three to take to play school and I was feeling the pressure to make something highly coloured and cut into a ridiculously difficult shape. I’m inspired now to stick to my guns. Your coconut hummingbird cake is the bomb and that is what I’ll be making this week. Thanks Sonia!

    Reply
    • Natural New Age Mum says

      March 4, 2013 at 9:13 pm

      Jo, don’t succumb!! In fact I have a terrific quote from another blogger about this coming up about expectations. Do your own thing and be proud. Would love to see a piccy! 🙂

      Reply
  6. Deb @ Home life simplified says

    March 5, 2013 at 10:32 pm

    they all look so delicious and man those figs on top of Kristin’s cake look amazing

    Reply
    • Natural New Age Mum says

      March 6, 2013 at 7:22 am

      Don’t they? Her food styling is amazing – she should be working for a magazine!

      Reply
  7. Alison says

    March 6, 2013 at 8:11 am

    Another shape you can make for a boy thats quite easy to do is a race track!
    I did this a few years ago for the boys, and I made 1 square cake, and 1 round cake.
    The square cake went in the middle, and the round cake went in half, one piece at each end to make an oval.
    (actually, this can also be a base for any oval cake – ice skating rink anyone??? Footy field????, Sports track????)

    For the racetrack, although it wasnt all natural, this is what I did:
    Whole thing iced in choc icing, then:
    Note – The track went in an oval around the outside, wide enough for the 2 cars I had (car shaped candles).
    Green sprinkles for the grass in the middle, where I put the podium and a trophy.
    I also made some home-made choc racing cars from a mold, that I stuck all around the side of the cake.
    From memory, I also piped white icing along the race track to make ‘lanes’

    As long as my kids don’t do the “awe mum that looks rubbish!” I’ll still keep baking and decorating the kids cakes myself LOL
    Dinosaur last year, knights and dragons castle the year before, and Batman cakes the year before that

    Reply
    • Natural New Age Mum says

      March 6, 2013 at 8:20 am

      you are a superwoman! you can make healthy icing and green coconut works a treat too 🙂

      Reply
      • Alison says

        March 6, 2013 at 1:48 pm

        I knew you’d have a healthy option from the green sprinkles LOL!

        Reply
        • Natural New Age Mum says

          March 6, 2013 at 1:49 pm

          you know it!! 😉

  8. Brigitte says

    March 11, 2013 at 7:00 pm

    Hi, just came across your blog and love it! My nearly 4 yr old has her birthday coming up this weekend and I wanted to try out Sonia’s chocolate cake. Do you think I can freeze it? I can only do it today or tomorrow and the party is on Sunday…
    Thanks for the great recipes!

    Reply
    • Natural New Age Mum says

      March 11, 2013 at 7:44 pm

      Yes Brigitte – this is the cake I do all the time and it is always frozen in advance! It defrosts beautifully. Come back and let me know how you go!!! 🙂

      Reply
  9. Rebekah says

    June 9, 2013 at 7:52 am

    I love it, such good ideas! I love (personally) making and eating Sugar Free icings & frostings.
    The easiest icing I make
    1 avocado
    1/3 cup agave syrup
    1 tblsp raw organic cacao powder
    1 tblsp coconut oil
    vanilla

    You can leave out the cacao powder if you don’t want it chocolate (it will be a green color from the avocado). If you want a different color swap out the avocado for strawberries (for a pink color).

    YUM! I’m going to go make cake!

    Reply
    • Natural New Age Mum says

      June 9, 2013 at 10:41 am

      Yay! Thanks Rebekah – fab idea 🙂

      Reply
  10. kidsrecipedandorganisedchaos says

    July 9, 2013 at 11:55 pm

    So, it’s nearly midnight and I just found this post, and now I’m hungry!!

    Reply
    • Natural New Age Mum says

      July 10, 2013 at 9:20 am

      uh oh!!

      Reply
  11. Serina says

    July 20, 2013 at 4:36 pm

    Do you know much about Dextrose as a substitute for sugar? I’m wondering if it is ok for the kiddies, especially ones with a artificial sugar free diet.

    Reply
    • Natural New Age Mum says

      July 20, 2013 at 4:52 pm

      I don’t Serina, sorry! If it’s heavily processed, I tend to give things like that a miss.

      Reply
    • Steph says

      July 20, 2013 at 10:57 pm

      Dextrose is simply ALL glucose molecules. It’s not quite as sweet tasting as table sugar (sucrose) which is a glucose molecule and a fructose molecule stuck together.
      For kids with fructose malabsorption the women’s and children’s hospital actually recommends dextrose as the “sugar” of choice and to actually “spike” recipes with dextrose to help even out the fructose/glucose ratio as glucose helps the body to deal with fructose (which is metabolically hard work and a bit nasty.)

      Reply
  12. Clare Nisbet says

    July 22, 2013 at 12:27 am

    Just made the Chocolate yoghurt cake – it’s my first baking exercise using healthy ingredients…. It was absolutely beautiful. I am on an absolute high and can’t wait to do more healthy lunchbox baking for my kids and rest and relax knowing they are eating well at school. Can’t wait to explore more recipes :))

    Reply
    • Natural New Age Mum says

      July 22, 2013 at 9:08 am

      Clare! Sohappy !!! This cake is one of our family’s all time faves !! So glad you liked it. Healthy eating definitely doesn’t mean no yumminess!

      Reply
  13. Zena says

    July 31, 2013 at 3:57 pm

    I made a soccer field birthday cake for my son’s 6th birthday party. My usual cake baked ingrediants are almond meal, rapadura sugar, dark chocolate and fruit. On this occassion I made him a themed cake with a butter cake recipe without artificial colours, preservatives and additives. I can’t wait to try the yoghurt cake and I like the idea of natural beeswax candles. Thanks for all the tips.

    Reply
    • Natural New Age Mum says

      July 31, 2013 at 4:00 pm

      thanks for stopping by Zena – great tips 🙂

      Reply
  14. Jimena says

    September 8, 2013 at 7:46 am

    Such a fun,easy recipe!! Thnx for sharing,I was looking for healthy birthday ideas cuz my mom’s bday is next week 🙂
    Definiteley gonna try this for her!!
    Thank you sooooo much.
    Blessings xo

    Reply
    • Natural New Age Mum says

      September 9, 2013 at 10:29 am

      Let me know how you go Jimena xxx

      Reply
  15. Yana Ginzburg says

    March 13, 2014 at 6:23 pm

    Thank you so much NNAM 🙂
    I made your choc yoghurt cake for my little one’s 2 nd bday.
    Kids loved it! ! Had no idea it was a “healthy” cake. I topped it with the avocado choc icing. Scoffed every crumb! Hubby and I enjoyed it a lot too. Thank you very much. Enjoying your posts and healthier eating ideas! Keep those great recipes coming. Looking forward to doing your carrot cake/slice next. .

    Reply
    • Natural New Age Mum says

      March 13, 2014 at 7:13 pm

      Thanks Yana!! woohoo… the kids never know it’s healthy… he he!! 🙂

      Reply
  16. Tamryn says

    August 8, 2014 at 7:32 pm

    hi

    how is the texture of the yogurt cake? I’m looking for a 1st birthday cake to use for a smash the cake shoot, so it will need to be easily smashed by little hands and taste yummy which it certainly looks like it does!

    Reply
    • Natural New Age Mum says

      August 9, 2014 at 9:40 am

      It’s probably a bit dense for that Tamryn. There are some other ideas on this post. The choc banana cake is probably the best texture for a light and fluffy cake. https://naturalnewagemum.com/six-healthy-birthday-cakes/

      Reply
  17. Lindsay says

    August 17, 2015 at 3:03 am

    Hi, did you end up making that strawberry cake? I see the directions are to use a thermomix. Does that translate easily to an oven?

    Reply
    • Natural New Age Mum says

      August 17, 2015 at 8:58 am

      Hiya Lindsay, the thermomix is only to mix, both ways you can cook in the oven. You simply just mix all the ingredients together in a bowl and whack into the oven – so easy! I actually made it this weekend! Yum 🙂

      Reply
  18. Jan says

    November 12, 2016 at 7:22 am

    Wondering if you’ve tried doubling the proportions of the chocolate yoghurt cake and if so, how did it go?

    Reply
    • Natural New Age Mum says

      November 12, 2016 at 8:30 pm

      Hi Jan, yes! It doubles really easily!

      Reply
  19. jennifer says

    March 21, 2017 at 10:12 am

    Hi there! This may be a silly question, but how does one line a round cake tin with paper (do you mean parchment paper? I don’t know what baking paper is). Thanks!! I’m not a baker but my kiddo is turning 2.

    Reply
    • Natural New Age Mum says

      March 22, 2017 at 9:46 pm

      Hi Jennifer… yes, I guess parchment paper is another word for it! It’s so the cake doesn’t stick. x

      Reply
  20. Anna says

    August 14, 2017 at 10:27 am

    Hi,
    My six year old daughter made your chocolate yoghurt cake on the weekend and it turn out lovely. I wanted to ask, have you tried this with just vanilla and without cocoa? Just trying to think of other variations.

    Reply
    • Natural New Age Mum says

      August 14, 2017 at 1:56 pm

      HI Anna, No I haven’t but I think if you just increased the flour to cover the cocoa it would work okay. So glad you liked it. 🙂

      Reply

Trackbacks

  1. Tips for a Stress-Free Kid’s Party | Natural New Age Mum says:
    March 5, 2013 at 12:44 pm

    […] (it will be lost on a three year old anyway!). See how to make a simple, healthy birthday cake here. More food ideas in tomorrow’s blog […]

    Reply
  2. Healthy Kid’s Party Food | Natural New Age Mum says:
    March 6, 2013 at 10:40 pm

    […] We talked cake the other day. Check out my six healthy birthday cake recipes here. […]

    Reply
  3. Birthday Celebrations! Featuring Lots of Recipes!! | naughtynaturopathmum's Blog says:
    March 18, 2013 at 3:57 pm

    […] Six Healthy B’day Cakes […]

    Reply
  4. Healthy Lunchbox Ideas | Natural New Age Mum says:
    April 27, 2013 at 1:12 pm

    […] What about choc-hazel bliss balls, carrot, pineapple and zucchini muffins or healthy cake? […]

    Reply
  5. Bumper Picnic Inspiration Post – 100 ideas and recipes! says:
    May 10, 2013 at 2:31 pm

    […] 6 healthy, wholefood cakes that taste delicious  https://naturalnewagemum.com/six-healthy-birthday-cakes/ […]

    Reply
  6. Rich Chocolate Cake | Natural New Age Mum says:
    August 21, 2013 at 10:27 am

    […] My clever girl used a tub of cream cheese (don’t get the low fat ones, they have yucky fillers), honey and cacao powder. In quantities ’till it tasted good’ she tells me! Check out my other healthy icing ideas. […]

    Reply
  7. Five Favourite Things – August | Natural New Age Mum says:
    August 30, 2013 at 12:10 pm

    […] am loving it so much. Tania is the brains behind that amazing almond and chia bread recipe and the chocolate chia cake. The recipes are quick and easy and they taste sensational. I am such a fan! You can get the book […]

    Reply
  8. The Icing on the Cake: 11 Real Food Icing Recipes | Brenda Janschek says:
    October 14, 2014 at 9:28 pm

    […] New Age Mum tops her ‘go-to’ Chocolate Yoghurt Cake with cream and strawberries. I wonder if anyone would protest if you mixed a little raw honey or […]

    Reply
  9. 13 Best Ever Chocolate Cake Recipes | Brenda Janschek says:
    July 25, 2015 at 9:34 pm

    […] Chocolate Yoghurt Cake  by Natural New Age Mum […]

    Reply

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

I’M A VIRTUAL ASSISTANT

PEOPLE I RECOMMEND

 

Search

Categories

  • FAMILY
  • FOOD
  • HEALTH
  • HOME
  • SELF

PRAISE

Archives

Copyright © Natural New Age Mum | Branding + Site by Robyn Birkin