Fabregé Egg Birthday Cake
This cake was for my own birthday. I love making my own birthday cake because I can try out new things, and really play around with my own birthday cake. This year I decided I wanted something Spring-y, maybe a bit Easter-y without being too cheesy or typical. I finally hit upon an idea. Fabregé eggs. So, I decided to make myself a Fabregé egg birthday cake. Now, what kind of cake should I make that would be Spring-y? I finally decided on carrot cake and cream cheese frosting. But I don't have an egg form and I didn't want it to be laying down anyway, so I decided to make it standing. That's more Fabregé anyway. So, I baked a total of six layers of cake. I used two different recipes of carrot cake because I wasn't completely happy with the first one. Each recipe was baked in one seven-inch round pan and two four-inch round pans. I didn't use one four-inch round, but I used all the rest of the cake to make the egg. I started out by stacking my cake with a fou...