Royal cake without flour

1. Break the eggs, divide them into whites and yolks. We pour most of the powdered sugar (about 240-250 grams) to the proteins. Beat the whites with powdered sugar until stable peaks. Carefully pour starch into the whipped whites, mix.

2. Walnuts are fried in a dry frying pan or in the oven. Then we chop the nuts with a knife coarsely. In parts, we spread fried nuts into the protein mass.

3. Draw a circle of the desired diameter on the parchment. Approximately 17-18 centimeters. We make four such blanks. Two will fit on a large baking sheet. We spread part of the protein mass in the center of each circle, carefully level it with a spatula, trying not to go beyond the edges.

4. We send the baking sheet to the oven already preheated to 200 degrees. Immediately reduce the heat to 180 degrees. Bake the cake for 20-25 minutes. The cakes should acquire a pleasant caramel color. In the same way, bake two more cakes.

5. Pre-softened butter is lightly beaten with a mixer. Beat the egg yolks with the remaining white powdered sugar. Pour a thin stream of milk to the beaten yolks, mix.

6. Prepare a water bath. In a large saucepan, pour water about 2 centimeters. We send it to the fire. When the water boils, place a container with whipped yolks and milk over it. With regular stirring, bring the cream to a boil, then remove from the water bath. Cool it down.

7. When the cream cools down, add the whipped butter into it, and also sift the cocoa powder. Cocoa must be sifted to get rid of lumps. Beat the cream with a mixer. Then pour the cognac and beat again until smooth.

8. We separate the finished cakes from the parchment immediately, while the meringue has not cooled down yet. We smear the cakes with cream and put them on top of each other. The surface is also smeared with cream. You can decorate the delicacy to taste. As an option, chopped walnuts, chocolate chips, meringues and cocoa powder for powder are suitable.

The cake is ready! Help yourself!