Dehydrator free birthday cake?

[RawkinOnSunshine]

Hey guys! My birthday is coming up next week (turning 20) and I'd like to make a cake that SAD eaters will enjoy as much as the evil counterpart. I've found a few yummy recipes but most are incredibly time consuming (working full time, plus school, plus caring for 13 animals and house cleaning leaves me little extra time) AND require a dehydrator.

Ideally something without hard to find ingredients that would be suitable for kids as well. Also, I'm not sure how possible this is but recipes without large quantities of nuts would be appreciated. I find they make me sick (makes it reeeally hard to get enough calories). But, if anything I could just have a very small sliver.

Thanks in advance :)

[JEN]

This one is an icecream pie/cake. Its easy to make just takes some time to freeze. Kids love it. Cheesecake is always a hit too.

http://www.therawtable.com/recipecoll/neopie.htm

[Conscious Midwife]

Consider 3 layers of RP's Brownies with strawberries and banana ice cream in between.

banana search for Rp's brownie recipe it's a cinche

[Anastazia]

Here's some ideas...the last one has some GEORGOUS, YUMMY-LOOKIN' pictures!!!
Happy birthday! My daughter just made a watermelon cake for my b-day, it was scrumptious! She used the first picture (link) for inspiration! She even shows HOW she made it!!!
(Scroll down to Feb. 24th....)
~Anastazia~

http://livingfruity.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2009-03-04T05%3A15%3A00-05%3A00&max-results=7

http://www.classbrain.com/artfamily/publish/watermelon_birthday_cake.shtml

http://www.grouprecipes.com/59902/raw-birthday-cake.html

http://http://www.goddessofthegarden.com/2008/07/watermelon-cakes/

http://http://rawgoddessheathy.blogspot.com/2008/08/birthday-bash-weekend.html

[Baby Bird]

A coworker once made me a raw cake that had a base of dried figs (soaked to rehydrate), almonds (I think), and carob. She frosted it with whipped avocado sweetened with honey and flavored with carob (better than it might sound). Sorry, all I know is that she found the recipe by googling for it. IT was so delicious (and thoughtful) and I know that all she had in the way of equipment was a food processor. Oh, and everybody else at work was of the opinion that actually, this is really good!

[circle]

why not just have a fruit dish? like a beautiful watermelon platter?

http://www.cookin4u.biz/images/gallery/dish4.jpg

or cut a shape of a cake out of watermelon and decorate it with other fruits.

http://www.lakescakes.com/watermelon.jpg

http://www.icingprincess.com/images/watermelon1.jpg

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aEs3yPzSFX0/RuZRa6XJFUI/AAAAAAAAAFw/OwEGFFhv23g/s400/water+melon+for+blog.jpg

http://www.classbrain.com/artfamily/uploads/watermelon-bday-cake2.jpg

[spicyfull]

What RAWonderful Pictures........Who knew?

[Revvell]

Alissa has great ones in her book... the best being a Cherry Chocolate something or other.

[Shona]

This one is an icecream pie/cake. Its easy to make just takes some time to freeze. Kids love it. Cheesecake is always a hit too.

http://www.therawtable.com/recipecoll/neopie.htm

Yum ... that cake is so gorgeous! I might make it for my birthday. :)

[Irish_Vegan_Girl]

This will be ready in no time at all: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7r4CNuj-o8

Or you could try ordering one that is already made. But its more fun making urself!

Good luck!

Happy birthday!:) x

[Veganforlife]

Alissa has great ones in her book... the best being a Cherry Chocolate something or other.

Took the words out of my mouth. Simple. Basic. Done.

[qnjnean]

jenny cornbleet has a good one in raw food made easy for 1 or 2. just a food processor. oh, it's on her website, too.

http://www.learnrawfood.com/guiltfreedesserts.htm

[glamazon]

that watermelon cake is very cool

[RawkinOnSunshine]

Thanks so much guys, this is great! There are so many beautiful recipes here that I want to try =D The ice cream cake looks amazing and simple.

I think I've decided which one I'm making, though I can't recall if I got it from this thread or from my other searching. In case anyone is interested and it ISN'T from this thread, it looks absolutely divine. The recipe can be found here:

http://bonzaiaphrodite.com/?p=1185