Ingredients
9 oz. Vegetable Oil
1 ½ cup Flour
1 ½ cup Sugar
1 tsp Baking Soda
1 ¼ tsp Cinnamon
3 Eggs
½ tsp Salt
1 tsp Vanilla Extract
2 – 40 oz. jars Carrot Baby Food
Frosting Ingredients
6 oz. softened Cream Cheese
¼ cup softened Margarine
2 cups Powdered Sugar
2 tsp Vanilla
Marzipan Carrots – optional
.8 oz. Almond Paste
4 drops Green Food Coloring
3 drops Red Food Coloring
6 drops Yellow Food Coloring
❃❃Serves 8❃❃
Preparation
Preheat oven to 350. Spray an 8”x8” cake pan and line with parchment paper. Spray parchment paper with non-stick cooking spray as well.
Make Cake
Mix oil, sugar, vanilla and eggs together. Add flour, cinnamon, baking soda, salt and baby food. Mix until smooth and pour into baking pan.
Bake for 35 minutes or until toothpick comes out clean.
Allow cake to cool.
Make Frosting
Beat cream cheese and butter together with electric mixer or in a stand mixer. Slowly add powdered sugar until combined and add vanilla.
Once cake is fully cooled frost cake and top with marzipan carrots if desired.
Make Marzipan Carrots
Use plastic gloves and divide mixture in half and color one half with red and yellow and the other half with green.
Roll orange into small cylinders and shape into a cone shape. Make small lines across top side with a toothpick to look like lines on the carrot.
Take a small disc of the green and push down into a flat circle and start to form top to look like leaves with a smaller portion on the bottom where it will attach to the orange to look like a carrot.
Attach leaves to the bottom side of the orange to complete carrot. Make as many as desired and place evenly on cake.