Sweet Garden Carrot Cake, Cream Cheese Icing, Candied Walnut Crunch, Black Raisin Coulis, Carrot Buttons, Indonesian Cinnamon Ice Cream, and Gelée de Carotte et sa Poudre

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Preparation info
  • Makes

    20

    servings
    • Difficulty

      Complex

Appears in

By Thomas Keller

Published 2008

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Ingredients

Cake

  • 185 grams all-purpose flour
  • 2.5 grams Indonesian cinnamon powder (Sources)

Method

The first carrot cake Sebastien saw made an impression on him. He was sixteen years old, working in a restaurant, and saw a Japanese chef working with carrots and then suddenly there was a cake, made with carrots! It was new to him, and he loved the idea of using vegetables in desserts. In America, of course, carrot cake with a cream cheese icing is traditional—and that was the