If you’re looking for a first birthday smash cake without the processed sugar, this is the one! We have done several first birthday cakes and I would say this is the easiest and incredibly tasty. It is sweetened with banana and has a fantastic moist texture. My real achievement this time was making a solid frosting for the rainbow cake without powdered sugar or food coloring.

Read about our wild one birthday party and our healthy first birthday cake. Sugar-free and full of nuts and vegetables it is healthy, delicious, and perfect for baby-led weaning.

To answer some of the questions I get frequently about baby-led weaning I spoke with Christiana of Real Food Littles. Christiana has a background as a health-focused personal chef and Nutritional Therapy Practitioner. She recently launched a course with everything you need to know for starting solids and how to raise an adventurous eater.

One ritual we look forward to every week is Sunday waffles. This has been a tradition for some time now and one we have really looked forward to including Yitzchak in. I originally made the King Arthur Flour sourdough waffle recipe, but over time have adapted it to fit our needs (we often do not have buttermilk, I wanted mixed flours, and I don't like measuring things).

I have gotten several requests for a list of Y’s first 100-ish foods so I am sharing it here along with a separate list of spices (to the best of my recollection). I am not an expert on BLW. I am just a mom who has done some research and is trying to raise an adventurous eater.