Flat meringues for cake filling

For the cake layer is the very thing! Baking with meringues is always easy, although time-consuming, but still not too burdensome - after all, drying meringues does not require your presence. In addition, it is better to make such a treat for children yourself than to buy sweets saturated with preservatives.
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Composition / ingredients

servings:
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Nutrients and energy value of the composition of the recipe
By weight of the composition:
Proteins 7 % 4 g
Fats 0 % 0 g
Carbohydrates 93 % 57 g
233 kcal
GI: 0 / 0 / 100

Step-by-step cooking

Cooking time: 2 h 20 min
  1. Step 1:

    Step 1.

    To make meringue, take the protein of a fresh egg from the refrigerator and sugar.

  2. Step 2:

    Step 2.

    Granulated sugar is often replaced with powdered sugar. So I ground the sugar in a coffee grinder and got powdered sugar. You can take ready-made powdered sugar.

  3. Step 3:

    Step 3.

    Pour the specified amount of powdered sugar into the whipping bowl (the usual proportion for 1 protein is 50 g of sugar), the result also depends on the size of the egg.

  4. Step 4:

    Step 4.

    Add the white separated from the yolk to the powder.

  5. Step 5:

    Step 5.

    Mix well with a spoon, you can add a little lemon juice.

  6. Step 6:

    Step 6.

    Take a mixer and start whipping meringue.

  7. Step 7:

    Step 7.

    You need to beat up to steady peaks, or to the extent that you want to see your meringues. We need them to be equally flat - so that they look beautiful inside the cake. Therefore, we do not bring them to very solid peaks.

  8. Step 8:

    Step 8.

    Spread the meringue on baking paper and put it in the oven for 2 hours at a temperature of 90 degrees. Meringue meringue is rather not baked, but dried. If the oven does not allow you to set such a temperature, then dry with the door ajar and turn the baking sheet with the reverse side after an hour.

Meringue meringue is an excellent dessert or filling for cakes and pastries.

Caloric content of the products possible in the composition of the dish

  • Lemon juice - 16   kcal/100g
  • Powdered sugar - 374   kcal/100g
  • Egg whites - 44   kcal/100g

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