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Betroot Cake
A cake made with red carrots and white chocolate, enhanced by inverse foams of various tones and a blueberry-scented caramel.
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Components
1. Emulsion-Mayonnaise
50 g Melted butter
90 g Sunflower oil
10 g Lemon zest
3 g Salt
q.b. Vanilla
300 g Whole eggs
100 g Lemon juice
100 g Kirsch liqueur
200 g Organic White Chocolate
400 g Icing Sugar
225 g Almond flour
400 g Weak flour
36 g Chemical yeast (baking)
600 g Precooked red carrot

Create an emulsion-mayonnaise with melted butter, sunflower oil, lemon peel, salt and vanilla. Drizzle over whole eggs. Add the lemon juice and kirsche liqueur using the hand-held mixer. Add the melted chocolate, the icing sugar and the almond flour. Mix together, sieve and add the weak flower and chemical yeast (baking) bit-by-bit, being careful to avoid the formation of clumps. Finally, add the precooked red carrot. Fill the inox strips on top of silpat with 450g of cake mix and bake at a temperature of 165°C for 35 minutes closed valve and five minutes open valve. At the end of the bake, soak with the syrup.

2. Syrup
500 g 30 bè Syrup
250 g Water
125 g Kirsch

Make a syrup from the three ingredients.

3. Organic White Chocolate Inverse Foam
750 g Cream
400 g Organic White Chocolate
8 g Gelatine
40 g Water

Heat the cream with the rehydrated gelatine, then pour over the chocolate and emulsify. Cover with cling film and leave to set in the fridge for at least ten hours. Beat with the whisk attachment in the stand mixer.

4. Dark Chocolate inverse foam
1300 g Cream
200 g Milk
600 g Chimelb Dark Chocolate
6 g Gelatine
30 g Water

Heat the cream and the full-fat milk. Add the softened isinglass and the chocolate. Emulsify and place into the fridge. Whip when ready to use.

5. Chocolate Caramel
350 g Blueberry Chunks
8 g Salt
250 g Caster Sugar
250 g 35% Cream
70 g 42 DE Glucose
60 g Dextrose
50 g Butter

Heat the cream with the glucose, dextrose and butter. Begin to dry caramelise the sugar. As soon as it has reached a desired golden colour, decoct slowly with the hot cream. Wait for the mixture to cool to a temperature of 50°C and then add the milk coffee nuances. Mix and emulsify.

Assembly and decoration

Create the cake and chill at the end of the bake. Make the foam and the caramel and leave to rest. Whip the foam and form the whirls according to the desired design while the cake is still frozen. Use the caramel to fill in the empty spaces. Decorate according to the design with semi-candied red carrots and red-coloured coconut flour, cherries

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