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June 2011 Moms
great icing debate
On my lunch hour today, I was making icing for DD party this weekend. My husband is very much against icing on DD's smash cake. Has anyone used yogurt as icing? Or just had a naked cake for their LO?
Husband thinks the icing is too much sweet stuff for a one year old. I say it is all in good fun.
Husband thinks the icing is too much sweet stuff for a one year old. I say it is all in good fun.
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Re: great icing debate
I feel bad for the poor babies that don't get some ooey-gooey sugar-high inducing icing on their cakes....
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I know you're being silly, but really? I don't feel bad for babies who eat healthy any more than I feel bad for babies who get sugary, colored frosting. I'm sure they're all having fun either way! It's not like they're getting kale instead of cake
We're doing a strawberry shortcake. I'm sure my LO will love it; I know I do!
We try to abide by the 90/10 rule around here. 90% of her diet is pretty strictly controlled, good stuff. Her birthday cake is going to fall into that 10%. I don't see her eating more than a few bites. Even if she ate the entire cake it's not going to give her diabetes or tooth decay.
Strawberry shortcake is yummy...so I don't feel bad for your LO
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Agreed.
I understand feeding LO healthy stuff, but once every year? Really, your hesitant to give them sugar just once? Whatever, I don't understand it but have you considered Cool-whip maybe? You could even use Cool-whip lite if you'd like I guess
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I'm in the everything in moderation camp. I'm making my own icing and cake, and feeling better that I'm doing that.
the straweberry shortcake sounds amazing!!! my favorite!
bahahahaha.
The best part of the smash cake pics is the icing covered baby! I make my oen icing since I don't care for the canned stuff. Tastes way too sweet. I make a cream cheese icing that gets raves
1 stick of butter(take it out of the fridge for 15 minutes or so. It's needs to soften up a bit)
1 8oz block of cream cheese
vanilla
4 cups of powdered sugar
milk
Using an electric mixer, cream the sugar. Then add the cream cheese and vanilla and beat until smooth. Add in the powedered sugar, 1 cup at a time. Add a splash of milk to thin the icing out as needed.
You could very easily use less sugar. This is a a very yummy icing that doesn't taste overly sweet.
We do real icing over here, and I don't think twice about it at all. They ingest some, but obviously not an entire smash cake.
To each their own, but my train of thought runs something like:
You're in control of what they eat all the time at this age. If you don't give it to them, they don't get it. It's not like they're sneaking into the freezer at night eating bowls of ice cream. So if you choose to do something like a very unhealthy cake/ice cream, like pp said, you feed them their regularly healthy stuff the next day. To me, it's more harmless doing it now than on, say, their fifth birthday when they're trading food/eating snacks at other kids' houses, and you're not completely in control of what they eat. Even if they love the smash cake, they won't be able to tell you or demand that that's all they eat from now on.
haha! Cute!
I admit I was originally thinking about making it healthy, but my DH brought me back to my senses by reminding me that it's her 1st birthday- she only gets one first birthday, ever! It's definitely an occasion for real cake.
I will say my DD ate a LOT of her cake. It was a 6" round, 2 -tier cake and she ate about a quarter of it before I took it away (she cried). And yes, she did have a sugar high, which led to some interesting laughing spells, followed by a crash into sleep. But she loved it. For us, it ended up being more fun having her experience real sugar for the first time than if I had tried to make it all healthy.
Cool Whip is NOT healthy. Sorry, I really don't mean to pick on you in particular, but it makes me crazy when people want to replace real food with things like artificial sweetener or the nasty chemicals in Cool Whip for the sake of health. Low fat/low sugar/low calorie does not equal healthy, especially not for babies!
Ok, deep breaths, I really don't mean this just about you and your comment. It's a rant that's been building in me, so please forgive my responding to you with it!
At this age, I wouldn't even consider giving LO icing out of a can, but would have no problem giving her homemade frosting that I knew was just butter and sugar. For her birthday, we're doing whipped cream- just cream and a little bit of sugar. In my mind, real, whole ingredients are a million times healthier than most diet food out there. Again, especially for our LOs.
This is where we disagree, because I see no difference. It would be just one day and just a little coke. It's not like I'd be filling a sippy with coke every day for him. It would be a birthday treat, just like the cake. Sugar is sugar after all.
Uh, yea no worries ladies I was just being a tad bit snarky.
DD got the real thing. So much butter it melted within minutes
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Yummmmmm!
How could I forget vanilla? That is going in our whipped cream, of course. Real vanilla!
You ladies are killing me with the butter talk! I am seriously drooling over here. I probably shouldn't get up to make myself a midnight frosting snack, right?
...have you ever had a bit of butter smeared on a Saltine?!
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I don't get why people think LO's should get sugar as a special treat for their birthdays.
For starters, they are not going to have any memory of this "special treat" so what's the purpose of giving them a sugar high-for my own amusement? No thanks.
And since he's never had much sugar and he's still learning new foods, he won't associate sugar with being a special treat anyway. DS thinks a piece of bread or plain waffle is the greatest thing on earth, so why should I give him a ton of sugar when he'd be just as happy without it?
I'm going with a happy medium for LO's bday--cake & low-sugar frosting that I'll make from scratch.
I posted this in my other thread, but here's the frosting recipe for anyone interested:
One cup of Greek yogurt
One teaspoon of vanilla extract
One-half cup of powdered sugar
Sift powdered sugar into a mixing bowl. Add yogurt and vanilla extract. Blend until your mixture becomes smooth and thick. Refrigerate for at least a half hour to allow it to thicken further. This recipe will frost twenty-four cupcakes.