If your child wanted cake but you wanted to feed them something healthy?

At that age I made Sophie "biscotti," from a loaf of fruit bread (usually it was banana or blueberry) that I made with whole wheat flour and sweetened lightly with honey or real maple syrup. I baked it normally, then sliced it up into sticks and rebaked it. :) She LOVED them! I also made banana cookies with no sugar and whole wheat flour.

For her first birthday I made a real cake, but chose to do a mini carrot one with tons of raisins and pineapple in it. I frosted it with cream cheese icing I made with much less sugar in it. I wanted a treat for her special day, but still healthier than a normal cake. It was delicious; I turned the rest of the batter into cupcakes for the adults!

Sophie is now 2.5 and hates junk food. She begs for fresh fruits, and even tosses out candy if I offer it to her (on special occasions like Halloween or Easter). It's awesome!! :)

I've learned my way around this by cooking "desserts". They look like desserts, they taste like desserts, but we leave out high sugar and add in veggies and my 2 yr old (and my husband) never know the difference.

They have blueberry/lemon muffins that have a puree of veggie in it. A "brownie" that's way low in sugar but has a puree in it, somtimes two.

I bought the Deceptively Delicious cookbook and honestly, it works wonders. It's the only way to trick my little man into eating healthy desserts. LOL.

i don't enable my daughter devour rapid nutrients very often and often purely on events like those. If she is going to a occasion and junk nutrients is served then i'll enable her have an extremely small element and then make up for it something of the day with healthful meals. She loves end result, vegetables, and finished grains on account that's what she is used to eating on a each and on a daily basis foundation. the two cases that my daughter has eaten at McDonalds I ordered her a grilled fowl snack wrap that's a flour tortilla with grilled fowl, lettuce, tomato, grated cheese, and Ranch dressing with milk to drink. this is in all hazard the healthiest merchandise on the menu and that i often make my own version for her at abode different than i exploit an entire grain tortilla and bypass away off the Ranch dressing. you additionally can feed her lunch in the previous the party so she should not be hungry on the party.

You can make "banana splits" that is a sliced banana covered with low-fat vanilla yogurt, a few chocolate sprinkles and a maraschino cherry on top.

Even just mixing plain yogurt with pureed fruit is sweet enough to pass for dessert

if you make dessert youself try the recipes that use applesauce in place of sugars and oils. or try fruit with whipped topping, sure it's adding sugar but if it gets the fruit down its a good compromise

skinny cow brand brownies or icecream

fruit with topping ( 1:1 marshmallow fluff&creamcheese)*delicious*

banna n pb sandwich

fruit salad wit topping

bananna pudding

yogurt w fruit or granola

granola bar

jello with fruit

icecream with cut up banannas

make ur own freezer pops ( use juicy juice, and wooden sticks )

good luck

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sometimes it is fun just to let him have the cake...take some pictures and enjoy them for years.

substitutes. um....thinking......um....I gotta tell you..the other day I got a craving for chocolate cake.....nothing else would suffice.

I am going to make a awesome grandmother some day..cake fr breakfast every day in my house! LOL

Diced up strawberries, graham crackers, yogurt, frozen yogurt, popsicles made from juice, diced up apples with low fat caramel dip, peanut butter and jelly sandwich, or cereal.

ice cream, yogurt, strawberries and cream, soya deserts, mashed banana with custard.

Most deserts have a bit of sugar in them to make them sweet though.

Banana and custard, fruit and yogurt, fruit purées and hot cross bun slices for dipping, Baked egg custard tart.