Thursday, June 08, 2006
Have your cake and eat it too!
Today was one of my best mommy days yet.
Chloe's first birthday is rapidly approaching. I have spent a lot of time over the past couple of months searching for a safe cake recipe for her to eat on her birthday. We are getting a separate cake for everyone else, but wanted to put a candle in something for her.
With her allergies, food introductions have been slow, and the major ingredients in baking - milk, eggs, soy, wheat, vanilla, chocolate, and oats are out. Honestly, I had pretty much lost hope. I even got teary eyed at a recent party when the baby blew out her candle, and I was sad that Chloe won't get her chance.
Today I tried a recipe for a banana muffin, and it worked! I used rice flour, made my own rice milk and used it as a substitute for the soy milk, and used applesauce instead of banana. The muffins are not only frostable, but also edible! They taste like apple shortbread. Chloe ate half of a muffin, and she would have eaten more except that I didn't think she needed all that sugar (her first taste of ANYTHING with sugar in it).
I am excited on so many levels!
First, I can use the recipe to make a small cake so that we can get the obligatory cake smashing pics at her first birthday.
Second, I don't want Chloe to ever feel different or deprived because of her allergies. Finding a cake for her first birthday gives me hope that if I work hard enough, Chloe can have the same experiences as other kids despite her allergies.
Finally, it felt so sweet to bite into a muffin, and then to feed her some of the same. It's the first time I have been able to let her eat anything I was eating. She has so few foods she can eat. And even when we are eating something that is safe for her, it's usually mixed with things she hasn't tried yet. We have to be so careful with food introductions that we can't just give her a first taste of something on a whim. But today, she smiled, reached for my muffin, grabbed a piece and gobbled it down. I felt so happy!
Chloe's first birthday is rapidly approaching. I have spent a lot of time over the past couple of months searching for a safe cake recipe for her to eat on her birthday. We are getting a separate cake for everyone else, but wanted to put a candle in something for her.
With her allergies, food introductions have been slow, and the major ingredients in baking - milk, eggs, soy, wheat, vanilla, chocolate, and oats are out. Honestly, I had pretty much lost hope. I even got teary eyed at a recent party when the baby blew out her candle, and I was sad that Chloe won't get her chance.
Today I tried a recipe for a banana muffin, and it worked! I used rice flour, made my own rice milk and used it as a substitute for the soy milk, and used applesauce instead of banana. The muffins are not only frostable, but also edible! They taste like apple shortbread. Chloe ate half of a muffin, and she would have eaten more except that I didn't think she needed all that sugar (her first taste of ANYTHING with sugar in it).
I am excited on so many levels!
First, I can use the recipe to make a small cake so that we can get the obligatory cake smashing pics at her first birthday.
Second, I don't want Chloe to ever feel different or deprived because of her allergies. Finding a cake for her first birthday gives me hope that if I work hard enough, Chloe can have the same experiences as other kids despite her allergies.
Finally, it felt so sweet to bite into a muffin, and then to feed her some of the same. It's the first time I have been able to let her eat anything I was eating. She has so few foods she can eat. And even when we are eating something that is safe for her, it's usually mixed with things she hasn't tried yet. We have to be so careful with food introductions that we can't just give her a first taste of something on a whim. But today, she smiled, reached for my muffin, grabbed a piece and gobbled it down. I felt so happy!
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I'm so glad you found a "cake" recipe for Chloe's big day! I've been wondering what you would come up with, though I had no doubt that you'd find something sweet for your sweetie that she could gobble down.
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