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Combine the carrot cake scraps and 25 g (2 tablespoons) liquid cheesecake in the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment and paddle until moist enough to knead into a ball.
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If it is not moist enough to do so, add up to 25 g (2 tablespoons) more liquid cheesecake and knead it in.
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Using a soup spoon, portion out 12 even balls, each half the size of a Ping-Pong ball.
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Roll each one between the palms of your hands to shape and smooth it into a round sphere.
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Put the ground milk crumbs in a medium bowl.
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With latex gloves on, put 2 tablespoons of the white chocolate in the palm of your hand and roll each ball between your palms, coating it in a thin layer of melted chocolate; add more chocolate as needed.
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Put 3 or 4 chocolate-covered balls at a time into the bowl of milk crumbs.
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Immediately toss them with the crumbs to coat, before the chocolate shell sets and no longer acts as a glue (if this happens, just coat the ball in another thin layer of melted chocolate).
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Refrigerate for at least 5 minutes to fully set the chocolate shells before eating or storing.
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In an airtight container, the truffles will keep for up to 1 week in the fridge.
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The base: Cake scraps, the fresher the better.
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We stick to one flavor of cake scraps at a time.
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The binder: This can be the additional milky soak from a cake assembly or a moist filling, curd, or sauce.
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Depending on the moistness of the cake base, we use more or less binder.
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We have recipes, but there is always a range for the binder.
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The shell: To seal in freshness and flavor, we roll each truffle in melted chocolate.
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The melted chocolate also serves to glue the crunchy coat onto the outside.
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We use Valrhona 72% dark chocolate or white chocolate, depending on the flavor of the cake truffle.
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The crunchy coat: Finely ground crumbs or crunches work best, but weve even been known to use toasted yellow cake crumbs.
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Steps 3 and 4 are easiest when you have a buddy: one person coats the cake balls in melted chocolate, the other tosses them in the milk crumbs.
