Arcadia’s first birthday

It’s hard to believe a whole year has passed since Arcadia was born.  For Arcadia’s birthday, we celebrated with cake.  Because Arcadia likes to eat everything put in front of her, I knew that I needed to make a healthy cake for her consumption.  A while back I stumbled upon a recipe for a Harvest Cake with Goat Cheese frosting, so this is what I made for her.  I split the recipe to make 12 mini-cupcakes and the remaining cake batter was baked in our 10-inch hexagon pan.  The only changes to the recipe I made were using half whole wheat and half unbleached all-purpose flour and I substituted applesauce for the oil.  As indicated in the comments on the recipe post, I too had trouble with the frosting not solidifying.  Although, Tysen wasn’t a big fan of the taste of the icing, so maybe next time I’ll just make cream cheese frosting for the cake.  The cake turned out yummy.  Arcadia ate 2 mini-cupcakes at daycare and proceeded to eat more cake after dinner tonight.  Here’s some shots of her enjoying the cake.