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.
Clover never ceases to amaze me in what challenge she dreams up for me to do for her son's birthday cake. This year was no disappointment! The baking was the easy part for this cake! The cake was technically a 3 tiered cake that was about 9" x 10". The tiers were separated with a half inch black cake board cut down to size. The bottom was chocolate, then vanilla and then cookies and cream. All were covered in vanilla butter cream before being covered in red fondant. Thankfully Mr T's cousin Amanda was over visiting for the weekend and ended up helping me a lot with the cake. She built the handle for me using cardboard and electrical tape. She also told me that it was customary to have stickers on your toolbox so I printed off some plumber related ones and laminated them. We even got the cake done early and delivered. Woohoo! Can't wait for next year's challenge! That's a joke. P.S. Now in my Instagram and ...
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