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Light and moist carrot cake recipe

This carrot cake is different from the usual carrot cake recipe, it’s made with egg foam like Genoise. It’s definitely lighter than just a common carrot cake. If you like the light texture, it will suit your taste.

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Light and moist carrot cake recipe
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Recipe
PRE TIME: 20 min
COOKING TIME: 55 min
TOTAL TIME: 1 hr 15 min
4 SERVING
Ingredients:
  • Cake sheet:
  • 4.2 oz. Egg
  • 3.1 oz. Brown sugar (unrefined)
  • 3.3 oz. Vegetable oil
  • 3.8 oz. Cake flour
  • 0.7 oz. Almond flour
  • 1/4 tsp. Salt
  • 0.14 oz. Baking powder
  • 0.07 oz. Baking soda
  • 0.07 oz. Cinnamon powder
  • A pinch of peanut mac powder (optional)
  • 4.2 oz. Finely chopped carrot
  • 1 oz. Roasted pecan
  • Cream Cheese Frosting:
  • 6.7 oz. Cream Cheese
  • 1 oz. Butter
  • 0.7 oz. Sugar
  • 0.5 oz. Condensed milk
  • 4 oz. Heavy cream
  • 1.5 oz. Mascarpone cheese
Directions:
1
Cake Sheet: Add the brown sugar to the eggs and mix well with a whisk.
2
Soak egg water in hot water and raise the temperature to 98-107 °F/ 37-42 °C. When you soak your fingers, you can feel as warm as a bath.
3
Whisk at high speed with a hand mixer to create a firm foam. When you drop the dough, whip it until the drop remains for more than 3 seconds.
4
Add oil and mix at low speed with the hand mixer. When it is mixed, stop immediately and remove the hand mixer. * If you overmix at this stage, you will get a totally low volume sheet. Do not mix too long, stop immediately if you do not see the oil.
5
Add flour, almond flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt, cinnamon powder, and nutmeg powder and mix with a spatula.
6
If the powder is hardly visible, add the chopped carrots and pecans and mix with a spatula until it is evenly mixed.
7
Pour the batter into the mold and bake for 50–55 minutes at 165 C. (Unox Convection Oven) * Carrot cake batter has a lot of moisture and it takes longer to bake than other cakes. It's good to bake it long enough to blow out the moisture in the cake.
8
Drop the baked cake in a mold, lightly shock it, turn it over, cool it completely on a cooling net, and cut it into 3 sheets of 1.5cm thick.
9
Cream Cheese Frosting: Crush the cream cheese and butter with a spatula and crush them well.
10
Add mascarpone, sugar, and condensed milk to the cold whipped cream. (About 80%)
11
Mix 2) into 1) several times and mix lightly with a spatula.
12
Put it in the piping bag and pipe it evenly on the sheet. (Piping tip: 1cm in diameter)
13
Marzipan Carrot: Mix almond powder and sugar powder well.
14
Put the whites together and knead them together to make a loaf.
15
Wrap in plastic wrap and allow to rest for 30 minutes to 1 hour in the refrigerator.
16
Mix the pigments and make them into the shape you want.
17
Assemble the cake and enjoy!
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