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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Cake Sheet: Add the brown sugar to the eggs and mix well with a whisk.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Add flour, almond flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt, cinnamon powder, and nutmeg powder and mix with a spatula.
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If the powder is hardly visible, add the chopped carrots and pecans and mix with a spatula until it is evenly mixed.
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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.
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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.
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Cream Cheese Frosting: Crush the cream cheese and butter with a spatula and crush them well.
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Add mascarpone, sugar, and condensed milk to the cold whipped cream. (About 80%)
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Mix 2) into 1) several times and mix lightly with a spatula.
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Put it in the piping bag and pipe it evenly on the sheet. (Piping tip: 1cm in diameter)
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Marzipan Carrot: Mix almond powder and sugar powder well.
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Put the whites together and knead them together to make a loaf.
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Wrap in plastic wrap and allow to rest for 30 minutes to 1 hour in the refrigerator.
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Mix the pigments and make them into the shape you want.