Carrot Cake Flower

Carrot Cake

ingredients preparation
  • 330g
    eggs
  • 375g
    sugar
  • 330g
    Olive oil
  • 210g
    carrots
  • 325g
    weak flour
  • 4g
    salt
  • 10g
    Bicarbonate
  • 10g
    baking powder
  • 5g
    Cinnamon
  • 2g
    nutmeg
  • 2g
    vanilla powder
  • 1g
    powdered ginger
  • 1g
    clove
  • 1g
    powdered cardamom
  • 330g
    grated carrot

Grate the first carrots in the blender with the oil and the spices.
Beat the eggs and add the sugar, work in the fatty ingredients and the sieved solids, finally add the grated carrot.
Spoon into lightly greased metal moulds and bake for 25 minutes at 160ºC with some steam.

Whipped Mascarpone Crème Anglaise

ingredients preparation

Infuse the cream with the vanilla, strain and make a crème anglaise in the conventional way. 
Apply the gelatine mass and the cheese. Add the drops of White Chocolate Opal 30.3% and perfect the emulsion with the food mixer.
Allow to stand at 4ºC overnight.
The next day, whip and pipe on top of the carrot cake using a plain nozzle to imitate the shape of a daisy.

Apricot, Passion Fruit and Raspberry Gel

ingredients preparation
  • 500g
    apricots
  • 500g
    passion fruit
  • 40g
    raspberry puree
  • 150g
    sugar
  • 20g
    pectin

Mix the sugar and pectin while cold.
Heat the purées.
Add the first mixture and bring everything to the boil.
Measure out into half-sphere moulds and once defrosted, arrange on top of the flower.

Spray Shine

ingredients preparation
  • 100g
    cold neutral gelatine
  • 35g
    water

Boil everything together.
Strain and spray the daisies.