Cauliflower Birthday Cake?

Personally, I would just indulge in a little bit of real cake:) birthdays only roll around once each year!

BUT this thread is actually pretty fantastic because I have a little guy turning 1 next month and have been looking for a good alternative to a regular birthday cake. He was born with his intestines outside his body and 2/3 of them died and were removed. His gastrointerologist hasn't even okayed fruity baby foods yet because of their higher natural sugar content. So thanks OP! I got a few ideas

Aww, I'm sorry about that. Hope your little one recovers as much as possible as fast as possible. :flowerforyou:

Cinnamon Cauliflower Coffee Cake

May not be 100% clean, but it's another to add to the list. LOL

INGREDIENTS:

Cake
•2 c whole spelt flour
•1/4 c arrowroot or tapioca flour
•1 tsp cinnamon*
•1 1/2 tsp baking powder
•1/2 tsp baking soda
•1/2 tsp sea salt
•1 c cauliflower puree from approx 500g [1.1 lb] florets
•2 Tbsp lemon juice
•1/2 c coconut oil, melted – divided
•1/4 c rice syrup
•1/4 c honey
•3 eggs

Filling
•1 Tbsp dark rum or bourbon* + 1 Tbsp warm water
•1/3 c sultanas [raisins]
•1/3 c walnuts, chopped
•1 tsp cinnamon
•1 Tbsp coconut sugar

METHOD:

Preheat oven to 180C [350F]. Grease and flour a 24 cm [10 inch] bundt/tube pan.

Prepare Filling:

Combine sultanas with rum and water and set aside to soak for 15 minutes. Squeeze liquid from the sultanas and reserve to drizzle over batter later.

Chop sultanas roughly, combine with remaining filling ingredients and set aside.

Prepare Cake:

Sift together dry ingredients in a large bowl and set aside.

Steam cauliflower florets 10-15 minutes until very soft and allow to cool. Puree steamed cauliflower well and measure out 1 slightly heaped cup. Set any remaining puree aside or eat it immediately, whatever.

Blend the 1 cup of puree with half the coconut oil and all the lemon juice, until very smooth and velvety like sour cream.

Add remaining oil, syrup, honey and eggs to the cauliflower mixture and whisk or blend briefly until well mixed. Fold wet ingredients into dry, stirring only until just combined.

Spoon just under half the batter into your prepared pan and smooth with the back of a spoon, being very careful not to hit the side and scrape off your flour. Sprinkle 1/2 a cup of the filling evenly around the centre of the batter*. The leftover filling will be used for your Caramel Sauce.

Top filling layer with remaining batter, making sure to scrape as much as possible out of the bowl. Smooth gently with the back of a spoon. Drizzle over 1 Tbsp of the reserved sultana soaking liquid – do not stir.

Bake for 40-45 minutes until the cake is golden and a skewer inserted in the centre comes out clean. Cool in pan for 10 minutes before turning out onto a wire rack to cool completely.

Dust with a bit of icing sugar if desired – it covers a multitude of sins and looks posh. Serve with Coffee Cake Caramel Sauce – see recipe below.

Makes 1 cake. Serves 8-12 people.

*NOTES:
•If you can get your hands on Vietnamese Cinnamon use it here. The scent and flavour is intoxicating.
•I layered the filling twice, first spooning in 1/3 of the batter topped by a handful of filling and repeating the layers, ending with the final 1/3 of the batter. However I felt that there was not quite enough batter to cover the filling well, so the above recipe simply puts it all in the middle of the cake.
•Rum or burboun can be replaced with apple juice but it’s not nearly as fun.

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Coffee Cake Caramel Sauce

Use this sweet sauce to drizzle over your Cauliflower Coffee Cake for an extra special treat. You won’t need much!

INGREDIENTS:

•leftover sultana and walnut filling from Coffee Cake
•1 Tbsp rice syrup
•1 Tbsp honey
•1/4 c water
•2 tsp dark rum or bourbon

METHOD:

Combine all ingredients in a small sauce pan. Simmer for 8 minutes until it just starts to become syrupy, sauce will thicken further as it cools.

Serve over Cauliflower Coffee Cake, ice cream, yoghourt, porridge… well you get the point.

Makes enough for one cake.

Hi all!

My birthday is in a few short weeks and I'm looking for a good cauliflower birthday cake recipe. I'd like it to have only a handful of carbs, and of course no refined flour or sugar and preferably low fat, and high fiber. I'm really trying to make it a clean birthday cake. Thanks for your help!!!

:flowerforyou:

Here ya go. And thanks for the idea. Amazing what you can find on google. I will make this cake for my son's best friend's birthday this weekend. He has celiac and this is gluten-free. Looks amazing!

http://chocolatecoveredkatie.com/2012/06/18/cauliflower-chocolate-cake/

Oops, billsica beat me to it!

Now, I do agree the cauliflower stuff is goofy but anything from chocolatecoveredkatie kicks azzzz!

What you need

For the Cake:
¾ cup all-purpose cauliflower
½ teaspoon baking cauliflower
½ teaspoon cauliflower
1 teaspoon baking cauliflower
1 cauliflower
½ cup cauliflower
¾ cup white cauliflower chips
2 cups frozen cauliflower, thawed
½ cup cauliflower
2 tablespoons cauliflower

For the Topping:
1 package instant cauliflower
2 cups cauliflower

How you make it
Preheat your oven to 350 F
Line a 8 inch brownie pan with parchment paper
In a large bowl combine cauliflower, baking cauliflower, cauliflower, baking cauliflower and cauliflower.
In a blender mix cauliflower, cauliflower chips, cauliflower, cauliflower and cauliflower until smooth.
Fold wet ingredients into dry ones until just combined
Pour batter in baking form and bake for 35 minutes
Immediately after taking it out of the oven poke holes with the end of a wooden spoon into the cake
Prepare cauliflower pudding with only 2 cups of cauliflower instead of 3 and pour (while still liquid) over cake
Place in fridge for at least 3 hours before serving

Yes!! This one is perfect! I'm going to make it for my daughter's Sweet 16th. She'll love it, right? Right?

Also, I can't decide which is more disturbing: The thought that OP really DOES want a cauliflower cake or the fact that there are actually recipes for it.

QFT. Who looks at a cauliflower and thinks "You know what, I bet I could make a cake out of that!"

Also, I can't decide which is more disturbing: The thought that OP really DOES want a cauliflower cake or the fact that there are actually recipes for it.

QFT. Who looks at a cauliflower and thinks "You know what, I bet I could make a cake out of that!"

These guys:

Ha ha!

This is the only acceptable cauliflower birthday cake.

Bump!

omg, those picture of Chocolate Covered Katie are awful. I've never seen her before, only visited her blog. Wow.