Smash Cake Update

Beloved customers! Hello again! Kira here.

My daughter's birthday was in January.... she turned one. I cried. Who am I kidding? I always cry. Since becoming a mom, I think crying might literally be my new hobby. I'm an emotional mom, what can I say?

However, I'm not here to talk about crying... I'm here to talk about cake! I had in my mind a plan to make my daughter a cake that was more acceptable within my standards for her diet, since I am not your conventional kind of mom. I was not into the idea of buying a cake that was way too sweet, and full of dyes and things I wouldn't eat myself, or serve to my friends. And hey, you know, that's just me, but that's also what Sonoran Sweets is all about. We love sweets, don't get us wrong, but we want them to be basic in their ingredients. Butter, sugar, flour, good. Artificial flavors, food dye, things you can't pronounce, bad. So, I took my time researching and looking into some ways to make a nice cake that wasn't all bad. And, I have not given dairy to my daughter yet, so I needed something that could work within that restriction too!

I'm happy to say, the cake came out great! I just used fruit to sweeten it, so no added sugar beyond what she's already had before. We are talking homemade applesauce, bananas, all that good stuff. And the great news is, applesauce and bananas are really common first foods for babies, so if you have a baby you are taking it slow with (in regards to introducing new foods, especially dairy or wheat) then this can really work for you! I did, however, make my cake out of whole wheat flour. My daughter had been introduced to organic sprouted wheat before her birthday, so I knew she didn't have any negative reactions to it and I decided to try out whole wheat flour for her cake. Add some yummy spices and some eggs and you have yourself a really tasty cake. Actually, I'd really enjoy it with a cup of tea or coffee. It made a great breakfast treat because it wasn't sickly sweet. Hey that rhymed.

So, now on to the frosting - since I didn't introduce dairy to my little one before her first birthday, I wasn't interested in experimenting at her party and decided to go with a dairy free, in fact, vegan option, for frosting. This is where things got a little tricky for me. Because I didn't want to add a lot of sugar to the frosting, the frosting base, was too... hmm, greasy, I guess you could say and it was very difficult to decorate, and it wouldn't really set, so it was very easy to accidentally mess up. Like when I was trying to put it in a box that it didn't fit in.... come to find out, after I mess the cake up. This is real deal, behind the scenes of life as a baker, haha. I was able to add some natural pink coloring to it, and made a very basic layered/ruffled look to the cake and called it a day. And in the chaos of preparing for my daughter's first birthday, I forgot to get a proper picture of what the cake even looked like.

So, as of right now, some kinks are still being worked out before we will offer this as a cake to our lovely customers, but it is on the planner, it is in the works, and we are working on creating solid options for moms out there who want to do something a little different for their wee ones.

Thanks for reading!



Kira and The Sonoran Sweets Tribe