Introduction: Rabbit Pie

A carrot cake with a fresh cream cheese you will enjoy!!

Step 1: Start Doing the Pie's Preparation. (ingredients)

It is a carrot cake with cream cheese.

Carrot cake:

  • 250 gr. brown sugar
  • 120 gr. sunflower oil
  • 3 eggs
  • 160 gr. flour
  • 2 teaspoon dry yeast
  • 1 teaspoon of ginger (optional)
  • 200 gr. grated carrot
  • 30 gr. chopped walnuts

Cream cheese:

  • 170 gr. butter
  • 225 gr. cheese to spread (philadelpia)
  • 250 gr. icing sugar
  • pinch of salt

Step 2: Preparation for the Mixture of the Pie.

  1. Separate egg whites from the egg yolk. Stiffly beat the egg whites with a pinch of salt. Once it is done, add to the yolks the oil and the brown sugar and start stirring it.
  2. When it is well mixture, add the flour with the yeast. You have to previously sieved.
  3. Continue moving the preparation until is all well linked.
  4. After adding the flour with the yeast add the carrot with the walnuts.
  5. Finally pour the egg yolks stiffed with a spatula and with enveloping movements.
  6. Pour the mixture in any container, previously greased and covered with baking paper.
  7. Put it into the oven at 180ºC during 30-40 min (depends on the oven so watch it frequently)
  8. When time is finish take it out and leave it cool down.
  9. When it is cold enough cut it in two.

Step 3: Preparation of the Cream Cheese Coverage

  1. Beat the butter at room temperature with the cream cheese until you have a good texture that is not liquid.
  2. Add the sugar in batches, if you want to add less it depends on your taste. You can also pour some vanilla essence drops to make it tasty.
  3. You can dye them with colors
  4. Add it into a pastry bag and let it chill in the fridge for a few minutes.

Step 4: It's Time to Decorate Our Cake

  1. Design what we want to reproduce.
  2. We are going to use white fondant and food colourings
  3. We are going to do a rabbit and some carrots. Dye the correct amount of fondant to do each thing we want.
  4. We start giving shape to it, just let your imagination flow.
  5. To have more support you can use toothpicks or wood sticks.
  6. To make designs to the figures you can use a simple fork, knife, spoon or the previous toothpick.
  7. Very important to "glue" a piece of fondant with another use a little bit of water.
  8. To work well with fondant heat it well with your hands, NOT the microwave!!!
  9. If fondant sticks to your hands you can put a little bit of flour but not too much.

Step 5: The Final Result!!

  1. We have the pie separared in two.
  2. The cream cheese in the fridge.
  3. And the figures we have done because we want it.
  4. IT IS TIME TO BUILD ALL!!!!
  5. At the top of the first pie layer we start pouring the cream cheese.
  6. Locate the other pie layer and cover again with cream cheese.
  7. Finally locate the figures you have done on top of it.
  8. And again back to the fridge because it can be melted the cheese cream.
  9. And ready to eat.