Carrot Cake with Marzipan Vegetables

Easter is not Easter at my home without carrot cake. I have made this cake before but it is so beautiful, I decided to repeat it. After all, isn’t it lovely?

 

Start with a tube of marzipan, an almond paste, and some food coloring. 

 

Put a little of the food coloring in the marzipan and mix thoroughly.

 Let your imagination run wild. With purple, you can make raddichio and eggplant

Or color it for carrots... 

 

Or a bunch of carrots. I added the ridges with a dull knife. All the veggies, need leaves.  

 

Or corn, making the kernels. 

Roll small red balls and mark with a knife, an X on the top for the tomato. 

Or roll an oblong red ball.. for watermelon. 

Carefully roll out a piece of green marzipan and cover the red.  Now you have a watermelon. Carefully cut in half. 

Next, pulse a box of Oreo cookies, for your garden dirt.

I put it in a Ziploc Bag, cutting the end, making sure not to get any on the cream cheese frosting. 

Now, you have a garden cake..... 

without any weeding!!!

I put her on a pretty cake stand, ready for Easter Dinner. 

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