Beautiful Bunny Cake
Fabulously moist and yummy carrot and walnut cake – a favourite with all bunnies!
Recipe by Mandy Dunn
Uploaded by Mandy Dunn
Time to make
Skill Level
Intermediate
Serves
12 people
Baking ingredients
- 200 g grated carrots
- 300 ml sunflower oil
- 300 g light brown sugar
- 100 g chopped walnuts
- 450 g self-raising flour
- 4 eggs
- 1 grated orange zest
- 3 tsp baking powder
- 3 mashed bananas (very ripe)
Decorating ingredients
- 2 lb Ready to Roll Icing (various colours)
- 1 lb rich vanilla buttercream (butter, icing sugar and vanilla extract)
Renshaw products used
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Instructions
Step 1
Combine all cake ingredients. Pour into a lined 7in circular cake tin and level top.
Step 2
Bake at 160°C/gas mark 3 for 1hr 10 mins.
Step 3
Allow to cool. Split in two and sandwich together with buttercream. Cover surface of cake with buttercream.
Step 4
If you are using a cake board, knead a roll out green icing to cover it and use additional colours of icing to decorate with carrots and flowers.
Step 5
Knead and roll out green icing in a circle that is wide enough to cover the cake, then gently lift over and smooth down. Place your covered cake onto the cake board.
Step 6
Knead and roll out chocolate flavour icing, and cut a circle for the top and centre of the cake to look like a rabbit hole. Attach to the green icing with a little water.
Step 7
Knead white icing until it is smooth and roll into one large ball for the bunny rabbit's head and two smaller balls for the front paws.
Step 8
Roll out more white icing and cut two ovals for the back paws and stick these to the front side of the cake with a little water.
Step 9
Cut two ear shapes from white icing, shape by hand and attach to the back of the head with a little water.
Step 10
Knead and roll out pink icing to use for the nose and back paw prints, and attach these with a little water. Do the same with black icing (or an alternative colour of your choice) for the eyes. Finish the head by marking in a smile and adding the head and paws to the chocolate icing on top of the cake.
Step 11
Using a darker shade of green icing, push this through a clean garlic press or a clay extruder to create grass for around the bunny. If you have time you could also roll individual blades of grass by hand, or stipple the icing with a clean brush.
Step 12
Decorate the edges of the cake with flowers in your choice of icing colours.
