This carrot cake is adapted from Gimme Some Oven to include purple carrots which are sweeter and green cream cheese icing made to look like grass. Then you decorate with Chocolate bunnies and chocolate eggs!
Course: Dessert
Servings: 22
Author: Gimme Some Oven
Ingredients
Carrot Cake Ingredients
1 1/2Cupplus 2 Tablespoons vegetable or canola oil
1cupgranulated sugar
1cupbrown sugar
6eggs
1tablespoonvanilla bean paste
3 1/4CupBob's Red Mill Organic Unbleached All Purpose Flour
1tablespoonground cinnamon
2teaspoonbaking soda
2teaspoonsalt
1teaspoonbaking powder
1/2teaspoonground nutmeg
pinchof ground cloves
1poundfinely-grated fresh purple carrots
Cream Cheese Frosting Ingredients:
1 1/2Bricks of Cream Cheese12 oz total
1stick butterroom temperature
2Cuppowdered sugar
pinchof salt
green food coloring
Instructions
Preheat oven to 350°F
In a stand mixer (or with a hand mixer), add oil, sugar, and brown sugar and mix.
Add one egg at a time until smooth, then blend in vanilla bean paste.
In a separate bowl, whisk together your dry ingredients. Bob's Red Mill Organic Unbleached All Purpose Flour, baking soda, baking powder, cinnamon, salt, nutmeg, and ground cloves.
Slowly mix your dry ingredients into your wet mix.
Fold in purple carrots.
Spray your bundtlette pan with bakers cooking spray (cooking spray with flour in it). Then dust with finely ground bread crumbs. (you can also use flour for this, but breadcrumbs work best)
Fill the bundtlette 3/4 full.
Bake for 20 minutes.
Allow to cool on wire rake. They will slip right out of the pan.
Cream Cheese Frosting
Using the paddle attachment (or a hand mixer), blend cream cheese and butter together.
Slowly add in powdered sugar and salt.
Add green food coloring one drop at a time until you reach the desired green color.
Place into piping bag with a #1 tip and drizzle green frosting onto cooled cakes. You can also use a Ziploc bag with the corner cut off or if you have the #233 grass tip, you can make grass!
Decorate with candy eggs (chocolate or jelly beans) and chocolate bunnies.