I LOVE Carrot cake, we both love it. I also personally have a slight obsession with Peeps, so when I saw these colors & with Easter coming up I KNEW it was a must make!
Isnt it just ADORABLE?!
With this we also did a Homemade Cream Cheese Whipped Cream Frosting, which I added a couple teaspoons of vanilla pudding to make it extra creamy!
Before we went a little crazy with the pastel colored Hershey eggs 🙂
Bunny PEEP Carrot Cake
Ingredients
FOR THE DECORATIONS;
- Multiple packages of different colored Peeps
- Pastel colored Hersheys eggs
- Colored sugars
- orange/green frosting if you want to make the carrots
FOR THE CARROT CAKE (you can use a store bought if you prefer)
- 1 3/4 cups powdered sugar
- 3/4 cup vegetable oil
- 2 cups finely grated carrots
- 1 8-ounce can crushed pineapple, completely drained
- 1/2 cup buttermilk
- 3 teaspoons vanilla
- 2 cups all purpose flour
- 2 teaspoons baking soda
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 2 1/2 teaspoons cinnamon
- 3 eggs
- 1 3 ounce can flaked coconut
- 1 cup walnuts chopped
FOR THE FROSTING:
- 8 ounce package of cream cheese
- 1 cup powdered sugar
- 1/8 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 1/2 cups of heavy whipping cream
- 2 teaspoons instant vanilla pudding dry
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 F.
- Grease two round 9 inch cake pans, set aside.
- Mix all cake ingredients except for the carrot,pineapple, coconut & nuts.
- Fold in the 4 ingredients above.
- Pour batter into the greased cake pans.
- Bake for 25 minutes or until a toothpick in center comes out clean.
INSTRUCTIONS FOR FROSTING:
- In a small bowl beat whipping cream until stiff peaks form then set aside.
- In a large bowl combine all frosting ingredients and beat until smooth then fold in whipping cream.
- Allow to fully cool before frosting the cake.
- Once cooled, spread frosting between layers and on sides/top, then decorate!
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Comments & Reviews
Holly says
This is one of the cutest cakes I’ve ever seen! I am going to make this for Easter!!
danielle says
omg i am in love