Carrot Cake Jar

Ingredients

  • In a pot, bring to the boil cream, milk, sugar and vanilla essence.
  • Combine gelatine and water and allow to bloom.
  • Add gelatine mixture to cream and stir until completely dissolved.
  • Allow to cool slightly.
  • Once cooled, carefully pour into prepared hens eggs.
  • Set in fridge.
  • Blend Pineapple until smooth and pass through sieve.
  • Discard bits.
  • Mix all ingredients together except butter.
  • Over a medium heat, allow mixture to thicken whilst stirring continuously.
  • Once thickened take off heat and beat in butter.
  • Allow to cool.
  • Scoop some Panacotta out of egg and pipe Pineapple curd in centre to create the egg yolk.

Directions

  1. Preheat oven to 170°c.
  2. In a bowl, combine flour, bicarbonate soda, baking powder, spice and sugar.
  3. Mix in eggs, oil and jam.
  4. Add grated carrot, pineapple and mix well.
  5. Add half of nuts.
  6. Pour batter into lined baking tin and baked for 30 min or until an inserted toothpick comes out clean.
  7. Allow to cool.
  8. In a bowl whisk cream until soft peaks, add vanilla, icing sugar and cream cheese.
  9. Whisk until stiff.
  10. In a jar or glass crumble chunks of carrot cake, pipe cream and sprinkle chopped up nuts.
  11. Repeat process until jar or glass is filled.
  12. Decorate with strawberries dipped in orange chocolate to create a ‘carrot’.

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