Chocolate Cake, with hidden fruit
1/4 Cup Butter1/2 Cup coco
1 Cup boiling water
-Mix until butter is melted.
-In a separate bowl:
1/4 Cup banana
1/4 Cup Apple sauce
1/4 cup Avacado (yes it's a fruit)
-Mash until smooth.
-Then add
1/2 cup yogurt, vanilla, full fat
1 egg
-Beat fruits unto wet until incorporated.
-Add
2 Cups flour, Bob's red mill
1 tsp gar Gum
1 tsp baking soda
2 tsp Baking powder
-Beat until smooth
Pour into greased bunt pan. Let lest while you preheat the oven.
Bake at 350 for 50 min.
Let cool before inverting, and removing from pan. Keep in airtight container at room temp.
I might be the first to admit that I am not the best mother. I try my best, but it's not always what I hoped it would be. Especially when it comes to Squeaker, and his eating habits.
He had to be induced early, and he never learned to nurse, was failure to thrive, and aspirated often. Put simply, His eating has been an issue since the moment he was born. He is now three and a half, and basically on a food strike, refusing everything. And I mean everything, was crying in a restaurant because I offered to get him ice-cream. He wants "noting"
So if I can get food into him, I try to make it calorically dense. Nutrient dense is a bonus.
I had read that you could use avocado instead of butter, and I thought, well butter has it's benefits as well, so what if I use both in this cake. And because there is some protein with bean flour, vitamins in apple sauce, and banana. I think it worked. It tasted like chocolate cake.
And it's not like I hid it. He helped me make the cake, mashed the avocado with the banana, measured the apple sauce. So he knew it was in there.
He ate two slices the first day, and one more the next day; then he lost interest.