A good cake for a good friend

I wasn't sure what type of cake to make for my friend's bday. Not that I was out of ideas, there are just so many!

The solution to my "problem" (wouldn't call it that, but that's what I thought it was at the time)all started with a thought I had one morning laying in bed. ....Ridiculous to think about marzipan first thing in the morning, but that's just what foodies do... For ages now I've been wanting to try out some new marzipan shapes and especially colourings with natural additives. I thought I'd love to make little carrots out of marzipan. So a carrot cake it was!

I used a European carrot cake recipe, which made an amazingly flavourful and very dense cake and topped it with a whipped vanilla-cream cheese icing. And... Il carroties!

I used turmeric powder to colour the root and the greens I coloured with just that. Greens. I had some of the Enerex greens powder left in my cupboard and it worked perfectly fine!

And some manly candles..Et voila!