Rhubarb meringue cake

AUTHOR
Sheila Zhang
DIFFICULTY
very easy
RATING
3.5 19
COOK TIME
90 mins
TOTAL TIME
90 mins

Ingredients

Servings: 16
  • 750–800 g Rhubarb
  • 7 Eggs (size M)
  • 200 g soft butter or margarine
  • 300 g sugar + 1 tablespoon sugar
  • 3 packages Vanillin sugar
  • 1 pinch Salt
  • 200 g Flour
  • 3 tsp (approx. 12 g) Baking Powder
  • 6-7 tablespoons (approx. 60 g) Whipped cream
  • 2 tablespoons of 10 g) Cornflour
  • 1-2 TEASPOONS Icing sugar for dusting
  • 7-10 Tbsp Fat and flour

Directions

  1. 1

    Clean the rhubarb, wash and pat dry. Cut rhubarb lengthwise into halves or quarters and dice (625 g net).

  2. 2

    Separate 4 eggs, chill the egg white. Mix the fat, 100 g sugar, 2 packets of vanillin sugar and salt with the whisks of the hand mixer for about 5 minutes until creamy. Stir in egg yolks one after the other. Then add 3 eggs alternating with 1 tbsp. flour each and stir in.

  3. 3

    Mix the remaining flour and baking powder and stir in briefly with the cream.

  4. 4

    Grease a springform pan (30 cm Ø) and dust with flour. Put the dough into the form and smooth it down. Mix 250 g rhubarb and 1 tbsp. sugar, spread on the dough. In the preheated oven, 2.

  5. 5

    Bake from below (electric oven: 175 °C/ circulating air: 150 °C/ gas: see manufacturer) for about 20 minutes.

  6. 6

    Beat the egg whites until stiff, adding 200 g sugar and 1 sachet of vanillin sugar at the end. Dust 375 g rhubarb with starch and mix. Fold the rhubarb into the meringue. Remove the cake from the oven.

  7. 7

    Spread the rhubarb meringue loosely, leaving a 2-3 cm wide edge all around.

  8. 8

    Put the cake back into the hot oven and bake in about 35 minutes. Take out and place on a cake rack. Carefully remove the cake from the rim with a sharp knife, remove the rim of the mould and let the cake cool down.

  9. 9

    Lift the cake onto a cake plate and dust the edge with icing sugar. Whipped cream tastes good with it.

Nutrition Facts

KCAL
280 kcal
CARBS
32 g
FATS
15 g
PROTEINS
5 g