First, a huge thank you to Kris of Buglet and Monkey's Cakes, for sharing her bunny and carrot cake with us all on Facebook. It simply is the cutest cake EVER!! I mean, cuter than the sacrificial lamb cake I grew up with (and now sacrifice/make for my own family).
Really... super cute!
I just had to ask her if she wouldn't mind if I made one myself. Was so excited when she gave the go-ahead!!
I was in even more luck when a neighbor saw my comment to Buglet and Monkey's photo and wanted me to make her TWO for Easter. :)
I happily said YES YES YES! and here they are....
I used a smaller chocolate bunny for each and made two "mini" cakes, although they are each on a 9"x 13" tray. If you can believe it, they were each longer in the beginning, but I cut the carrots down to a more proportionate size after I crumb coated them. For each cake, I baked a 9 x 13 cake, drew a carrot template, and cut two templates out of the cake. Then I filled it with buttercream and layered them. Next, I crumb coated it. The next day, I whittled away at them to get to a size I was happy with and applied the orange-colored buttercream. The leaves are an edible grass candy I found at Michaels. I cut a hole in the cake down one layer and wedged the bunny in. Using a flat tip (I don't know which one or what it's called), I piped orange buttercream to make it look like the bunny was popping out.
One cake is a vanilla cake and the other is a sprinkle cake,
using my (now favorite) recipe from Sprinkle Bakes.
I tried to recreate as much as possible what the original cake design looked like, but made a couple small changes here and there.
I loved my little bunny/carrot cakes before I had to deliver them. :)
Kris' original cake takes the carrot, though!
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2 comments:
Thanks for blogging about me! Ha ha! Your cakes came out SO adorable!!
Of course I'm going to blog about you!! Your cake was amazing!!
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