Cheeky Rabbit Carrot Cake

I baked this cake for my sister's birthday, the best part is that the cake itself is carrot cake so the theme worked really well!

Ingredients:
200g Self Raising flour
200g Caster sugar
200g Butter
4 Eggs
170g Carrots, finely grated
100g Chopped Walnuts
1 tbsp Ground Cinnamon
1tbsp Ground Nutmeg
Butter Icing
Fondant Icing
Cocoa powder (optional)

Method
1. Pre-heat the oven to 180 degrees, and line two 20cm diameter cake tins with greaseproof paper and grease.
2. Make the cake batter recipe with the flour, sugar, butter and eggs.
3. Peel, head/tail the carrots and grate them. Add to the cake mix along with the walnuts that are finely chopped. Add in the cinnamon and nutmeg.
4. Split the mixture in half and add to each of the round cake tins, and bake for 20 to 30 minutes (insert a knife into the middle and it should come out clean).
5. Take out and leave to cool once cooked.
6. Make the butter icing (1:1 ratio of icing sugar and butter) more may need to be added as necessary.
7. Take the cakes out of the tins and turn one upside down. Put butter icing on top of the upside-down layer and add the other on top the right way up to make a sponge sandwich.
8. With the rest of the butter icing, spread it all over the cake.
9. Roll out icing fondant and put on the cake (the butter icing helps it to stick).
10. Decorate with fondant icing, creating the rabbit and carrots etc. The cocoa powder was used for the soil effect, but other substitutes can also be used. The coloured fondant in this cake was used but food colouring can also be added to white fondant for the same effect.

Enjoy!