nobody tell him it's not cream cheese!!

[prison break fan]

It looks fantastic Mrs. F. How did you "do" the carrots? I'd love to have a go! pbf.

[mrsflibble]

you need a packet of marzipan (i recommend asda's own, no nastieswhen i bought it last xmas), and if it's yellow marzipan you need a bottle of pink food olouring (again asdas) or if it's white marzipan then use an orange or a yellow and red. you'll also need either blue or green food colour too.

ok, take a blob which would approx fit inside an espresso cup. or an egg cup. whatever's easiest.
dust your hands with icing sugar. what do you mean i dint mention icing sugar? oh. ok. you need that too. so. yeah. dust the handies. roll the ball of marzipan until it's ball shaped, flatten out and then using a cocktail stick or skewer, dip into the colouring and dot the colour onto the mazipan. knead in using icing sugar to stop getting sticky. you may have to do this a few times before you like the colour. set aside. wash hands.

take a blob half the size of the first blob, do the same preparation and dot with the green (or blue) food colour. I used green even though i had yellow marzipan. repeat as ecessary.

then wash hands. dry. dust again and take a pinch of the range marzipan and roll it in your hand until it's carrot shaped. lay a knife gently in to make the creases. jab the top with a skewer/cocktail stick/leather bradawl/darning needle/non-burnt end of a burnt matchsharpish pencil wrapped in clingfilm etc to make an impression. now take a teeny tiny amount of the green, roll into a sausage and force into the hole in the en of your carrot. you can leave it like this or snip it into three with scissors, not cutting all the way down.

there you go. carrot.