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Mini Carrot Cake

This is a sweet 6" carrot cake, covered in buttercream icing.  I had to double check for sure that they didn't want cream cheese icing.  It felt so wrong! :)  Carrot cake is a vessel to the cream cheese icing.  But, to each their own.  Carrot cake is so great to work with because the batter is thinner than regular cake batter.  The cake always bakes flat.  I added some fondant carrots for extra decoration.



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