Carrot cakes are one of your 'Five a day' - right?

I wanted some cakes with a healthier perception so attempted some carrot cakes today. These were for a family party where cakes haven't been too well received in general so I baked some biscuits to go with them. I had a bargain with the cookie cutters as they were in the sale on Ocado, left over from the Easter stock.

These were really good to make with "baby puddle duck" as she could make the carrots for the top of the cakes out of modelling icing. I made the green tops for the carrots in two ways. Half of them were moddeling icing and half were green writing icing. Either worked OK.

The biscuits were covered in rolled out modelling icing and scored with a knife to show the texture of the carrot. The icing was stuck on with warmed apricot jam.


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