My sister requested this for her birthday but I know her favorite cake is carrot cake. Trying to figure out a way to have them both!
by giraffle9
36 Comments
CabbageFridge
What about it are you not sure about?
You should be able to just make a carrot cake and decorate it using coloured cream cheese.
Carrot cake does tend to me a bit more crumbly than sponge so make sure you put it in the fridge (or even the freezer) before decorating and do a crumb coat to stop any crumbs making their way into the decorative cream cheese.
Much_Difference
I can’t think of a reason you couldn’t make this exact cake but as a carrot cake. Literally just bake and decorate a carrot cake instead of baking and decorating another kind of cake. Hell, since we can’t see inside, the cake in the pic could very well be a carrot cake!
Mindless-Poem2447
add carrot
Hawaii_gal71LA4869
Favorite carrot cake mix or recipe, cream cheese/buttercream frosting. Buttercream, food dye tinted, with some Crisco included for the piping. Butter cream and Crisco (Wilton training) for the piping because it will stand up better or …. Martha Stewart style. 2 bags of piping buttercream alternating on ice. Use for a few, replace with second iced bag, repeat.
Under-frosting, tinted Lt Pink, one crumb coat and second coat, patted gently to smooth using clean paper towel. Other option, crumb coat and pink fondant.
Use repeated refrigeration in creative process.
Figurines – computer stencil under wax paper and outline in royal frosting using writing tip.
TableAvailable
The carrot cake is on the inside. If you don’t think the cream cheese will work for decorating, then use cream cheese frosting as filling and the base frosting, then do the piping with something a bit sturdier.
eatmybadussy47
bold of u to assume this isnt a carrot cake
DrawingTypical5804
Totally possible. I can’t seem to drop a picture of a carrot cake I decorated for a wedding.
Make sure to level the cake before stacking. The frosting layers can be your normal consistency of homemade frosting. Add powdered sugar to the rest of the frosting until it’s piping consistency and dirty frost the outside (thin, flat coating of frosting. Crumbs showing is okay) Refrigerate for 12-24 hours. Color your piping consistency frosting. Do a good coat of frosting around the whole cake. Start piping. If the frosting softens, put it back in the fridge for 10-15 minutes.
raeality
I would make a sturdy carrot cake recipe, fill and crumb coat it with cream cheese frosting, then add a thin layer of your favorite buttercream for decorating (AMBC or SMBC, or ganache) and go about it as I would any other cake project.
Pretty-Office7171
Like, with cartoon carrots instead of the figurines? Or carrot sponge inside?
VeryHotAndLargeBread
Put carrot in and 👍
poptartsqueeza
Obsessed 😍😍
Bdizzy2018
Carrot cake on the land side, use buttercream to finish the outside. This could be a carrot cake for all you know.
wildomen
What about ccarrot cake w a cream cheese icing to hold the cakes together when you stack them so it’s like cream cheese filled then regular decorating ?
Forsaken_Tomorrow454
I feel like this post was designed to trigger everyone in the subReddit.
Hot-Swimmer3101
You can make any cake a different type of cake inside if the decor covers up the cake anyways.
Beanicus13
Make a carrot cake. Then frost it with these colors and decorations? What’s the question?
hoffheinz
The characters are plastic pieces can add in too any cake. Pretty flower design can do with any cake, make it carrot cake recipe.
Cannot purchase carrot cake with pretty colored cream cheese unfortunately.
Uniform cream cheese color outside with store bought. It’s a cool idea and hope you complete it 💫
Normal-Product-7397
Well looks like you’ve already got the carrot top, now just do the rest.
ImpossibleEducator45
Color the cream cheese frosting
Overworked_Snood
Carrot cake was super popular in my neighborhood growing up and I hated it when I was child. You’d go to birthday parties and the cake would be so pretty on the outside, and I’d be expecting yellow cake or chocolate cake and they’d cut it open and it was carrot. I think you’ll be fine decorating a carrot cake any way you want.
BSFX
Carrot cake yeast is easy.Eat your frosting that’s the ish
Macaroon886
I’ve never tried a carrot cake before…
Dense-Transition1180
Carrot cake on the inside. The tricky part is the frosting. If you want that level of detail, you’ll either need to use a cream cheese filling on the inside and just use buttercream on the outside or you can make what’s sometimes referred to as a crusting cream cheese frosting. It’s essentially a sturdier cream cheese frosting.
I’ve used this recipe before and it worked out pretty well. Just keep in mind that it’s still not as sturdy or shelf-safe as buttercream would be.
Idk but when you figure it out, please bake one for me too
Competitive-Care8789
I have done two small wedding cakes with carrot cake.
TheWalkingDead91
Upvote for good taste in both cake flavor and theme. Remember to lather, rinse, but don’t repeat.
bustergundam4
I’m surprised people still remember Lizzie McGuire.
GeneralGringus
How do you know this one isn’t a carrot cake? 🙂
Just make a round, two tiered carrot cake. Cream cheese in the middle, then decorate the outside like this…
zrakkan
Omg lizzy, haven’t seen her for a long time lol. Cake looks great btw!
HelperMunkee
Step 1: make carrot cake
Fin
Cthulhulove13
Why is this a question? What’s inside has no effect on the outside
Poetic_Peanut
Keep this image for reference so you know what to copy. Wherever you see a flower, pipe a carrot. She is holding her hand out in the print below, put a carrot there too. Bonus points if you make it a happy carrot, to bring it all together. (It’s a joke – but honestly good luck OP and hope it turns out delicious 🙂 )
danniejordan
Why wouldn’t you be able to just make a carrot cake and decorate it like this? I feel like this post is just farming for engagement or something because this is silly.
giraffle9
It doesn’t let me edit but I should’ve been more specific. I’m not great at cake decorating and have never decorated a cake with cream cheese frosting before, so I was wondering if it’s possible and/or if there’s anything I need to do to make the cream cheese more stiff.
36 Comments
What about it are you not sure about?
You should be able to just make a carrot cake and decorate it using coloured cream cheese.
Carrot cake does tend to me a bit more crumbly than sponge so make sure you put it in the fridge (or even the freezer) before decorating and do a crumb coat to stop any crumbs making their way into the decorative cream cheese.
I can’t think of a reason you couldn’t make this exact cake but as a carrot cake. Literally just bake and decorate a carrot cake instead of baking and decorating another kind of cake. Hell, since we can’t see inside, the cake in the pic could very well be a carrot cake!
add carrot
Favorite carrot cake mix or recipe, cream cheese/buttercream frosting. Buttercream, food dye tinted, with some Crisco included for the piping. Butter cream and Crisco (Wilton training) for the piping because it will stand up better or …. Martha Stewart style. 2 bags of piping buttercream alternating on ice. Use for a few, replace with second iced bag, repeat.
Under-frosting, tinted Lt Pink, one crumb coat and second coat, patted gently to smooth using clean paper towel. Other option, crumb coat and pink fondant.
Use repeated refrigeration in creative process.
Figurines – computer stencil under wax paper and outline in royal frosting using writing tip.
The carrot cake is on the inside. If you don’t think the cream cheese will work for decorating, then use cream cheese frosting as filling and the base frosting, then do the piping with something a bit sturdier.
bold of u to assume this isnt a carrot cake
Totally possible. I can’t seem to drop a picture of a carrot cake I decorated for a wedding.
Make sure to level the cake before stacking. The frosting layers can be your normal consistency of homemade frosting. Add powdered sugar to the rest of the frosting until it’s piping consistency and dirty frost the outside (thin, flat coating of frosting. Crumbs showing is okay) Refrigerate for 12-24 hours. Color your piping consistency frosting. Do a good coat of frosting around the whole cake. Start piping. If the frosting softens, put it back in the fridge for 10-15 minutes.
I would make a sturdy carrot cake recipe, fill and crumb coat it with cream cheese frosting, then add a thin layer of your favorite buttercream for decorating (AMBC or SMBC, or ganache) and go about it as I would any other cake project.
Like, with cartoon carrots instead of the figurines? Or carrot sponge inside?
Put carrot in and 👍
Obsessed 😍😍
Carrot cake on the land side, use buttercream to finish the outside. This could be a carrot cake for all you know.
What about ccarrot cake w a cream cheese icing to hold the cakes together when you stack them so it’s like cream cheese filled then regular decorating ?
I feel like this post was designed to trigger everyone in the subReddit.
You can make any cake a different type of cake inside if the decor covers up the cake anyways.
Make a carrot cake. Then frost it with these colors and decorations? What’s the question?
The characters are plastic pieces can add in too any cake.
Pretty flower design can do with any cake, make it carrot cake recipe.
Cannot purchase carrot cake with pretty colored cream cheese unfortunately.
Uniform cream cheese color outside with store bought.
It’s a cool idea and hope you complete it 💫
Well looks like you’ve already got the carrot top, now just do the rest.
Color the cream cheese frosting
Carrot cake was super popular in my neighborhood growing up and I hated it when I was child. You’d go to birthday parties and the cake would be so pretty on the outside, and I’d be expecting yellow cake or chocolate cake and they’d cut it open and it was carrot. I think you’ll be fine decorating a carrot cake any way you want.
Carrot cake yeast is easy.Eat your frosting that’s the ish
I’ve never tried a carrot cake before…
Carrot cake on the inside. The tricky part is the frosting. If you want that level of detail, you’ll either need to use a cream cheese filling on the inside and just use buttercream on the outside or you can make what’s sometimes referred to as a crusting cream cheese frosting. It’s essentially a sturdier cream cheese frosting.
I’ve used this recipe before and it worked out pretty well. Just keep in mind that it’s still not as sturdy or shelf-safe as buttercream would be.
[Perfect Crusting Cream Cheese Frosting](https://www.bakersbrigade.com/recipe/perfect-crusting-cream-cheese-frosting/)
Idk but when you figure it out, please bake one for me too
I have done two small wedding cakes with carrot cake.
Upvote for good taste in both cake flavor and theme. Remember to lather, rinse, but don’t repeat.
I’m surprised people still remember Lizzie McGuire.
How do you know this one isn’t a carrot cake? 🙂
Just make a round, two tiered carrot cake. Cream cheese in the middle, then decorate the outside like this…
Omg lizzy, haven’t seen her for a long time lol. Cake looks great btw!
Step 1: make carrot cake
Fin
Why is this a question? What’s inside has no effect on the outside
Keep this image for reference so you know what to copy. Wherever you see a flower, pipe a carrot. She is holding her hand out in the print below, put a carrot there too. Bonus points if you make it a happy carrot, to bring it all together.
(It’s a joke – but honestly good luck OP and hope it turns out delicious 🙂 )
Why wouldn’t you be able to just make a carrot cake and decorate it like this? I feel like this post is just farming for engagement or something because this is silly.
It doesn’t let me edit but I should’ve been more specific.
I’m not great at cake decorating and have never decorated a cake with cream cheese frosting before, so I was wondering if it’s possible and/or if there’s anything I need to do to make the cream cheese more stiff.
OMFG!!!!! I love this 🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷
Cream cheese buttercream. Keep it cold/chilled as you pipe
https://cakesbymk.com/recipe/the-best-cream-cheese-frosting/#recipe