The Bite:
It's our birthday, too, yeah. Well, birthday week anyway. First up: Bake an easy homemade b-day cake from organic mix with eco-frosting and sprinkles - then have a good time.
You say it's their birthday?
03.09.2009
Submitted by alara on Sun, 03/08/2009 - 11:00pm.
The Benefits:
- Not taking a ch-cha-cha-chance on chems. The ingredients in organic baking goods (flour, sugar, cocoa powder, etc.) are grown without pesticides or synthetic fertilizers, and processed without chems.
- Rocking the good stuff. Conventional cake mixes, frostings, and candy decorations contain artificial colors and flavors; these ones are colored with fruit and veggie extracts.
- It's Fab Four your wallet. Baking an organic cake from store-bought mix with prepared frosting and sprinkles costs about a third of buying one made.
- Cake for the whole band. We've got gluten-free options for kids allergic to wheat.
Personally Speaking:
Biter Brooke Curnow of American Fork, UT, tipped us off about Dr. Oetker's chocolate lava cakes, her fam's fave. "They come out looking just like the picture - gooey goodness," she says. For the mix, they use fresh eggs from their pet chickens, Etta and Nina.
Wanna Try:
Mix
Frosting
Sprinkles
- Pamela's Chocolate Cake Mix - cake mix with organic cane sugar and cocoa powder; wheat- and gluten-free; also in vanilla; variations like chocolate pound cake here ($6).
- Arrowhead Mills Organic Cake Mix - organic cake mix in chocolate or vanilla; wheat- and gluten-free ($4).
- Dr. Oetker Organics Marble Cake Mix - chocolate-yellow cake mix; also lava cupcake mix with caramel center ($4).
Frosting
- Pamela's Confetti Frosting Mix - organic vanilla, gluten-free frosting mix with organic multicolor sprinkles; also in dark chocolate ($5).
- Dr. Oetker Organics Icing Mix - organic frosting mix in vanilla or chocolate ($4).
Sprinkles
- Let's Do...Sprinkelz - organic sprinkles in chocolate and multicolor pellets, or round nonpareils; coloring from beet, spinach, and tumeric powders ($2).
Timeout
Brooke holding Etta, the chick in charge.
Bang For The Bite
If 10,000 Mama Biters bake a cake with an organic mix instead of a regular one, we'll keep the weight of 250 electric guitars in chem-processed foods off our kids' plates.
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