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.
For this "cake" I made two dozen vanilla cupcakes and arranged them on the cake board in the shape of the rainbow and clouds. To make sure the cupcakes didn't move I added a dab of icing on the bottom of each cupcake. It's not that often that I get to dye icing, or six different colours at once. You can get a really good bicep workout, Miss E was kind enough to lend her figurines as models for the picture. The clouds piped out perfectly. The rainbow was a little more difficult. Next time I would put a base coat on the cupcakes to help keep the top coat more level and easier to pipe over.
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