Crazy Striped Veggie Cake for Kids
I love tricking my children into eating more vegetables. I also love experimenting with recipes and taste testing things, which may be apparent by my chubby cheeks.
Anyway, here’s how to make a tasty pretty striped cake with vegetables in it. I’m not making the cake from scratch this time, so use two vanilla cake mixes. Mix those both up according to the directions. (Usually add an egg, a cup of water and/or milk etc.) Then cook a small beet or half a big one until its tender, blend it up and add some of that to one third of the two completed white cake mixes. Add enough so that you will get a pretty pink color. Do the same thing with a carrot to another third of the mix. Last but not least, measure about an eighth of a cup of peas, blend them up and add them to the last third. You can use your imagination here and use what you happen to have on hand. Green beans would work and so would spinach or zucchini.
Grease a large cake pan and carefully place one layer on top of the other, trying not to mix them together too much. Bake according to directions, which will probably be about 35 to 40 minutes or until the cake bounces back when you touch it in the middle. After it cools and you cut it, you have your triple striped vegetable cake.
I like cream cheese icing but it’s not necessary. In case you like it too, here’s the recipe:
- 1 8oz. package of cream cheese
- 1 cup of icing sugar
- 1/4 cup of butter
- 1 tsp. vanilla
Cream the cheese and butter before adding the sugar and vanilla. Yum!
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