Strawberry Meringue Cake

AUTHOR
Janie Gentry
DIFFICULTY
very easy
RATING
4.3 8
COOK TIME
90 mins
TOTAL TIME
90 mins

Ingredients

Servings: 16
  • 125 g Butter or margarine
  • 425 g + 3 tablespoons sugar
  • 1 package Vanillin sugar
  • 4 Eggs (size M)
  • 150 g Flour
  • 1/2 package Baking Powder
  • 4 TABLESPOONS Milk
  • 40 g flaked almonds
  • 4 leaves Gelatine
  • 1 Organic Lemon
  • 500 g Strawberries
  • 400 g Double cream cream cheese
  • 400 g Whipped cream
  • 1 TABLESPOON Icing sugar
  • 7-10 Tbsp Grease

Directions

  1. 1

    Beat the fat, 125 g sugar and vanillin sugar until creamy. Separate the eggs and stir in the egg yolks one after the other. Mix flour and baking powder and stir in briefly together with the milk. Grease a springform pan (26 cm Ø) and spread half of the dough. Beat the egg white until stiff, gradually fold in 200 g sugar. Spread half of the beaten egg whites on the filled cake mixture, leaving a 2-3 cm wide rim all around. Sprinkle with half of the flaked almonds

  2. 2

    Bake in the preheated oven, 2nd rail from below (electric oven: 175 °C/ convection oven: 150 °C/ gas: see manufacturer) for approx. 25 minutes. Chill the rest of the beaten egg white. Remove the finished base from the mould. Wash the mould and bake a second base from the remaining dough, meringue and flaked almonds. Let it cool down

  3. 3

    Soak 2 sheets of gelatine separately in cold water. Wash lemon hot, grate dry and grate peel thinly. Halve the fruit and squeeze the juice. For the filling, wash and clean the strawberries and, depending on size, halve or quarter them. Finely puree half the strawberries, 3 tbsp. sugar and 2 tbsp. lemon juice. Dissolve 2 sheets of gelatine. Stir 1 tbsp. pureed strawberries into the gelatine. Stir the mixed gelatine into the rest of the strawberry puree. Chill until it begins to set and fold in the remaining strawberries.

  4. 4

    Mix cream cheese, lemon peel, remaining lemon juice, 100 g sugar with the whisk of the hand mixer for 3-5 minutes until the sugar is dissolved. Squeeze 2 sheets of gelatine and dissolve. Stir 2 tablespoons of cream into the gelatine. Stir the mixed gelatine into the rest of the cream. Chill until it begins to set. Whip the cream until stiff and fold into the cream in portions

  5. 5

    Put a cake ring around a base. Spread the cream and strawberry mixture alternately on the base. Place a second cake base on top. Place the cake in a cool place for at least 4 hours, preferably overnight. Remove cake ring and dust cake with icing sugar

  6. 6

    Waiting time approx. 5 hours

Nutrition Facts

KCAL
400 kcal
CARBS
41 g
FATS
24 g
PROTEINS
6 g