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Recipe Summary

Yield: Serves 12 to 15

Ingredients

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Vegetable-oil cooking spray

6 cups unbleached all-purpose flour, plus more for dusting

2 pounds carrots, finely grated

6 large eggs, room temperature

2/3 cup nonfat buttermilk

4 cups sugar

3 cups vegetable oil

2 vanilla beans, halved lengthwise, seeds scraped and reserved

1 cup golden raisins

4 teaspoons baking powder

2 teaspoons baking soda

2 teaspoons kosher salt

2 teaspoons ground cinnamon

2 teaspoons ground ginger

1/4 teaspoon ground cloves

Cream-Cheese Frosting for Bunny Carrot Cake

10 cups mini marshmallows

2 chocolate-covered espresso beans

1 pink jelly bean

1 pale-yellow licorice twist (6 inches), cut into 2-inch lengths and sliced into needle-thin pieces

2 cups loosely packed pink cotton candy

      Cook's Notes

Cake can be refrigerated up to 1 day.

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Bunny Carrot Cake

Recipe Summary

Yield: Serves 12 to 15

Bunny Carrot Cake

Bunny Carrot Cake

Bunny Carrot Cake

Recipe Summary

Yield: Serves 12 to 15

Recipe Summary

Yield: Serves 12 to 15

Yield: Serves 12 to 15

Serves 12 to 15

Ingredients

Ingredients

  • Vegetable-oil cooking spray
  • 6 cups unbleached all-purpose flour, plus more for dusting
  • 2 pounds carrots, finely grated
  • 6 large eggs, room temperature
  • 2/3 cup nonfat buttermilk
  • 4 cups sugar
  • 3 cups vegetable oil
  • 2 vanilla beans, halved lengthwise, seeds scraped and reserved
  • 1 cup golden raisins
  • 4 teaspoons baking powder
  • 2 teaspoons baking soda
  • 2 teaspoons kosher salt
  • 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
  • 2 teaspoons ground ginger
  • 1/4 teaspoon ground cloves
  • Cream-Cheese Frosting for Bunny Carrot Cake
  • 10 cups mini marshmallows
  • 2 chocolate-covered espresso beans
  • 1 pink jelly bean
  • 1 pale-yellow licorice twist (6 inches), cut into 2-inch lengths and sliced into needle-thin pieces
  • 2 cups loosely packed pink cotton candy

Directions

Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Coat an ovenproof 13-inch-diameter 6-quart bowl with cooking spray. Dust with flour, and tap out excess. Set aside.

Whisk together carrots, eggs, buttermilk, sugar, oil, vanilla seeds, and raisins in a large bowl. Whisk together flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, ginger, and cloves in a medium bowl. Stir flour mixture into carrot mixture. Transfer batter to prepared bowl.

Bake until a tester comes out clean, about 2 1/2 hours. Transfer to a wire rack; let cool in bowl 40 minutes. Unmold onto rack. Let cool completely.

Place cake, broad side down, on a cutting board. Using a serrated knife, trim 2 sides to create a slightly pointed head and body. Using 2 scraps from sides, cut out two 5-inch-long ears. (Trim bases of ears at an angle so that they will lean toward tail.) Attach with frosting. From 1 scrap, carve a ballshaped tail that has 1 flat side; attach with frosting. Refrigerate cake 20 minutes. Spread a thick layer of frosting over cake.

Cover entire cake (except for insides of ears and the tail) with marshmallows. Press in espresso beans for eyes and the jelly bean for a nose. Add 8 pieces of licorice for whiskers. Just before serving, cover ears and tail with cotton candy.

      Cook's Notes

Cake can be refrigerated up to 1 day.

Cook’s Notes

Cake can be refrigerated up to 1 day.

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