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Carrot Cake

Anna's take on the Carrot Cake by black spoon chef Culinary Monster from the Netflix show, Culinary Class Wars season 2!
Prep Time 20 minutes
Cook Time 15 minutes
Total Time 35 minutes
Servings: 1
Course: Dessert
Cuisine: Asian Fusion

Ingredients
  

The carrot syrup
  • 2-3 carrots for juicing
  • 3 tbsp sugar
The cake
  • 1 slice of brioche bread
Cream base
  • 3 tbsp Ricotta cheese room temp
  • 3 tbsp greek yoghurt
  • Lime zest
Carrot jeonggwa (candied carrot slices)
  • 1/2 carrot sliced into thin pieces
  • 3 tbsp sugar
  • 6 tbsp water
  • 1/2 orange including its juices
Garnish
  • A few thin slices of ginger
  • 1/4 cup cooking oil

Method
 

Soak the brioche bread in carrot syrup
  1. Cut the brioche bread into 4 rectangular pieces.
  2. Use a juicer or blender, extract carrot juice. Note: if you’re using a blender, add some water to the carrots and blend, then put it through a sieve to remove the carrot pulp.
  3. In a pot on medium heat, add the carrot juice and sugar. Let it slowly cook until it becomes slightly thickened and syrup-like in texture.
  4. Turn off the heat, add in the brioche pieces and let it soak for 1-2mins. Set aside to cool down.
Make the carrot jeonggwa
  1. In a pot on medium low heat, add water and sugar. Let it come to a slow simmer.
  2. Add in the sliced carrots into the syrup, and let it simmer for 2 minutes.
  3. Add in squeezed orange juice and the orange itself too.
  4. Simmer the carrots until it has become slightly translucent and chewy (~3mins). Set aside to cool down.
Make the cream base
  1. In a bowl, mix together ricotta cheese, yoghurt and lime zest.
Fry the ginger
  1. In a pan, add in the oil and let it heat up.
  2. Add in the ginger strips and let it shallow fry until golden crispy.
Assemble the carrot cake
  1. In a small bowl, add some cream base, followed by brioche piece and carrot jeonggwa.
  2. Repeat step 1 for 2-3 times, depending on how big your bowl is.
  3. Garnish with deep fried ginger strips on top.