Second Birthday

November 2010. Toby 24 months.

At his first birthday we had a nice roast and potatoes, because it would be a nice meal for us with some things for Toby to pick at. But since his year had been filled with introductions to a bajillion more foods I wanted to make something he would actually love.
He will eat mostly anything, but there are still things he's less fond of. Beef and Chicken, for example, he likes the taste of but sometimes finds hard to chew.
What he will always eat though, no matter the mood, is rice, tofu stir-fry, and sushi.
How many other two-year-olds can say they had that for their birthday dinner??

Over the summer we has experimented a lot with different sushi fillings and had come up with two amazing rolls.
#1: Shredded carrot, cucumber, basil leaves, chives
#2: Sauteed mushrooms, red pepper, green beans

So good.

So for Toby's second birthday we had sushi and a tofu stir-fry consisting of PC herbed tofu, baby carrots, peas, baby corn and black olives.

And then to top it all off, a tractor cake.

The cake recipe I used is from The Gluten Free Gourmet and is as follows:

Fruit Cocktail Torte

1 cup gluten free flour mix

1 cup sugar (I used brown sugar, or half a cup of honey instead)

1 teaspoon salt

1 teaspoon baking soda

2 eggs (I used egg replacer)

One 17oz can of fruit cocktail

1 teaspoon vanilla

Preheat oven to 325F

In large mixing bowl, sift together flour, sugar, salt and baking soda (If replacing sugar with honey, DON'T add it here. Mix with egg before adding)
Add the beaten eggs, fruit cocktail (juice included), and vanilla.
Stir well until blended. Pour batter into greased 9x9 pan.

Bake 1 hour.
(I had to cover with tin foil about 3/4 of the way through to keep top from burning, but it takes the full hour for the middle to cook)

For the tractor cake I made a 'grass' icing with icing sugar, lactose-free margerine, vanilla and green food colouring. For 'snow' I used shredded coconut. For the number 2 I used crumbled gingerbread cookies that I had saved in the freezer form a few months before.

Owwwwm nom nom nom

Happy Eating!!