Breast Milk Recipe: How to Make a Breast Milk Smash Cake

Here's How to Make Sure Your Liquid Gold Gets in Baby's Birthday Cake!

Reaching one year of breast milk feeding is reason enough to celebrate, mama – but celebrating your little one’s first birthday is an especially momentous occasion. Whether you decide to keep your baby’s first birthday party small, intimate, and private, or you plan to do it up big with lots of friends, family, and celebrating, watching your little one dig into their first smash cake is practically a parenthood rite of passage. As you begin to plan your baby’s very first birthday cake, be sure to consider any food allergies or known sensitivities. Some parents prefer to forego refined sugar and/or flour, while others may be planning a more traditional cake for their baby to smash their tiny fists into. A great way to use some of your stored, pumped breast milk and dig into that surplus is by utilizing your breast milk – in place of dairy or other milk – in the recipe for your baby’s cake. Though it may be a little more time-consuming to have two separate cakes – a small one for your baby and a non-breast milk one for yourself, your partner, and any guests – including breast milk in your little one’s first birthday cake is just another creative way to ensure he or she still receives your precious liquid gold.

If you’re interested in how to make a breast milk smash cake, we found a couple of great (and healthier!) recipes to share:

Breast Milk Smash Cake Recipes

Breast Milk Smash Cake
via Life as Dallas Knows It

Ingredients – Cake:

• Breast milk, 2/3 cup (or about 4 ½ ounces)
• Apple cider vinegar, ½ teaspoon
• Coconut palm sugar, 1/3 cup
• Applesauce, 1/3 cup
• Vanilla extract, 1 ½ teaspoons
• Whole wheat flour, 1 1/3 cup
• Baking powder, ¾ teaspoon
• Baking soda, ½ teaspoon
• Salt, ¼ teaspoon
• Fresh, chopped fruit of choice, ¾ cup

Ingredients – Frosting:

• Butter, 1 cup at room temperature
• Vanilla extract, 1 ½ teaspoons
• Confectioner’s sugar, 3 cups
• Breast milk, 2 – 3 ½ tablespoons

Directions:

• Combine your breast milk and the apple cider vinegar, then let it sit for about 2 – 3 minutes.
• Add sugar, applesauce, and vanilla extract and then mix everything together until smooth.
• Mix in your dry ingredients and continue beating until your batter is smooth.
• Stir in your chopped fruit of choice.
• Pour cake batter into two 6-inch round cake pans.
• Bake at 325 degrees for about 25 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the center of the cakes comes out clean.
• For your frosting, beat your room temperature butter until it is fluffy.
• Stir in sugar and vanilla extract.
• Add breast milk one tablespoon at a time, continuously beating until the frosting is smooth.

Breast Milk Smash Cake (without Added Sugars or Oils)
via Super Healthy Kids

Ingredients - Cake:

• Fruit puree, ½ cup
• Breast milk, ½ cup
• Lemon juice, 1 tablespoon
• Egg, 1
• Vanilla extract, 1 teaspoon
• Whole wheat flour, 1 cup
• Baking powder, 1 teaspoon
• Baking soda, ¼ teaspoon
• Salt, ¼ teaspoon

Ingredients – Frosting:

• Cream, 1 cup
• Maple syrup, 1 tablespoon

Directions:

• Combine breast milk and lemon juice together in a bowl and let sit for about 5 minutes to make a buttermilk alternative.
• Whisk fruit puree, egg, vanilla extract, and breast milk mixture together.
• In a separate bowl, combine your whole wheat flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt.
• Carefully pour your wet ingredients into your dry ingredients and mix everything together.
• Pour batter into a greased 6-inch round cake pan.
• Bake at 350 degrees for 20 – 30 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean.
• Combine cream and maple syrup to frost your cake.

Most importantly? Enjoy the moment and be sure to have your camera ready when it’s time for your baby to smash, taste, toss, and play with their birthday cake. Don’t forget to share the photos with us on Instagram so we can celebrate this amazing time right alongside with you! Happiest of birthdays to your sweet baby from all of us at Medela – Now the fun is really beginning!