Monday, March 28, 2011

Easter and a Carrot Cake

Let's make a real "Carrot" Cake today!


Happy Spring. Happy Easter. Happy warm weather?

Well we had nice weather. Then it turned cold with snow flurries. I still have hope that spring is on it's way. Let's stay warm inside and bake today. How about a cake? A "carrot" cake!


Get it now? What better way to celebrate Easter than a huge carrot cake right? It's fun to make. Let's get started. Step one. Bake a cake. I use a homemade carrot cake recipe but we can use a box carrot cake mix here. No judgment. It's more about how it looks anyway ;-)

Here is what I used. 2 cake pans. One oval and one 8x8. Here are some suggestions. You can use two 8x8 or one 9x13 cake pan if that is what you have. I wanted my cake to have layers so I used the two cake pans. I used an oval one because I thought it would help with my shape.



The truth is that it doesn't matter what shape cake pans you use (not round though) because we will be carving the shape of the carrot out. My tip is to try the 9x13 as long as a one layer cake is fine with you. I think the longer the better. This is what I used though so I will show you how I made it with these shapes. After my cakes cooled and I put them in the freezer for a bit, I iced the top of my bottom layer cake with cream cheese icing and stacked them.
Here is my cakes stacked and carved. Next I iced the cakes to prep them for fondant.
I used white Wilton fondant and tinted it with orange tint from Wilton. Then I rolled it out large enough to cover the cake.
As I was making my fondant I had the NCAA games on. Side note here: GO BUTLER!!! FINAL FOUR!!! Okay next I covered the cake with my orange fondant. Smooth it out nicely and cover it all the way to the bottom.

It looks like a giant finger here, I know. I used the back of a knife to make the carrot indents on the top of the cake. For the bottom trim of the cake I rolled out a long ribbon of fondant and lined the bottom of the carrot to give it a finished look. Next I made the carrot leaves. Tip here: I used a ghost cookie cutter for the leaves. The tail of the ghost made it look like the leaf stem. I used a toothpick to make the details of the leaves.

Cute! Here is another picture of the overall cake

And here is why I wanted it to be a layered cake. Yum!

My family has been loving the giant carrot in the fridge. At least we are eating healthy at my house. A carrot a day? Hmmm...

Happy Baking!!

Stacy
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15 comments:

  1. So Adorable! Looks Delicious as well!

    Warm Wishes,
    Jodie

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  2. That looks amazing! I love carrot cake anyway. Carrot-shaped carrot cake is just that much better. :-)

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  3. That is the cutest cake!! I am going to forward your directions to my daughters, they are our official cake makers. Very springy!
    Sue

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  4. Yes please do! Thank you everone. The cake was so yummy :)

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  5. That is so cute. I wish I liked to bake. Thanks for sharing this, too.

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  6. That really is wonderful! So much fun to eat! So glad you took pics! I get excited...and forget sometimes! lol ♥

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  8. Adorable!! My children would love that--but my tradition is to do a bunny cake for Easter...and I can only do one cake per holiday season!

    ~ Sarah

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  10. I found this the other day. My son's 1st bday is today and I took this design and using white cake made one for his smash cake. It turned out so cute! and with other half of cake i had; i made "carrot tops" in case we need some extra cake.

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