It's a Jungle Out There!

And all of a sudden it's been months since I posted anything....  Hmmm, my New Year's Resolution was good for 4 months, maybe I can redeem myself for the last half of the year?

I made this cake back in April for a neighbor's friend's baby shower - are you keeping up with this?  The cake is carrot cake, filled with real cream cheese frosting, real as in not Neufchatel or fat free but real, honest to goodness you can't count the calories REAL cream cheese.  Well, when you're adding 2lbs of powdered sugar to the cream cheese a little thing like full fat really pales into insignificance!

The design for this cake came from the invitations for the shower - I was going to make a palm tree to go on top too, but well, I forgot - how bad is that?  However, I think it would have been too crowded to add a tree too, don't you?  I knew you'd agree.

For any eagle-eyes out there, the giraffe's legs are in the cake, they really are....

As my 7yr old learned when I was baking this cake, carrot cake has real carrots in it!  Which means it's healthy and does count as one of your 5 per day ;-)

The animals are all edible, (even the ears on the giraffe which are spaghetti noodles), they're a mix of gumpaste and fondant.  Everything else is fondant too.  If you can't eat it, I don't use it!

The initial request was for the finish to be cream cheese, which it started off as, but I just didn't like the shade of blue, so I covered it in fondant as I could never have let it leave my kitchen the way it was, told you right at the beginning I was a little OCD when it came to cakes!