I'll stand by my previous statement, and you're just proving my point.

It's easy to make a lighter hood than stock, even with an aluminum hood like my WRX. Aluminum is a little more tricky, but at 14.5 pounds for a stock WRX hood (supposedly, on secondhand information) it's still easier to make a carbon hood lighter than that. A 14.5 pound carbon hood is heavy, and to think that yours is heavier than a stock steel piece is horrifying. The EG hoods I used to make were 8 pounds for the lightweight (but $$) race versions, and 12-13 for the much beefier/cheaper street version (with somewhat similar construction as many of the better commercial units on the market).

Your hood is probably mostly fiberglass, and has a really thick layer of gelcoat, and is overbuilt because it's a carbon copy (wow..that was unintentional) of a steel hood. It's also probably really thick to get any kind of stiffness because it doesn't have a core, and it probably has a thick fiberglass copy of the steel substructure on the back. If you can check at least some of those boxes, your hood is probably a piece of crap.

I've said all of this before, people who don't know anything about composites try to replicate a steel piece out of composites, and it works but is a really long way from good design practice.