Meringue Cake Winter Fairy Tale

Serves as a table decoration and is extremely tasty. Delicious cake for Christmas, New Year made of crispy meringue with chocolate cream, a classic combination of nuts with sour prunes, decorated with sponge Christmas trees.
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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 8 % 5 g
Fats 29 % 18 g
Carbohydrates 63 % 40 g
342 kcal
GI: 8 / 3 / 90

Step-by-step cooking

Cooking time: 2 h
  1. Step 1:

    Step 1.

    The base of the cake will be meringue. We separate the whites from the yolks.Whisk the whites, adding a pinch of salt. When the foam appears, add sugar gradually, beat for 10 minutes, at the end add citric acid and vanillin.

  2. Step 2:

    Step 2.

    Put a third of the meringue in a pastry bag with a smooth tube with a diameter of 1 cm, and put the rest on pastry paper or a silicone mat in the form of two circles with a diameter of 20 cm. From the pastry bag we will suck out small round meringues that will go for decoration. And we will bake at 120 degrees - 30 minutes (we will leave the oven door ajar for the first 10 minutes), then at 100 degrees - 1 hour, and leave to cool in the oven.

  3. Step 3:

    Step 3.

    Cream 1: whisk the butter until white, then add condensed milk to it a little, whisk. We will postpone a third of the cream,

  4. Step 4:

    Step 4.

    And add 2 tablespoons of cocoa to the rest and knock it down for another minute or two.

  5. Step 5:

    Step 5.

    Chop the nuts and prunes. Let's assemble the cake: on the meringue cake - chocolate cream, sprinkle with nuts and prunes, and the second cake - cream, prunes, nuts, cream.

  6. Step 6:

    Step 6.

    Lubricate the top and sides with white cream. Spread the meringue on top of the entire circumference.

  7. Step 7:

    Step 7.

    For Christmas trees, bake a green sponge cake, adding spinach to it. It does not have a pronounced color and smell, but it will give color. Let's punch it with vegetable oil in a blender.

  8. Step 8:

    Step 8.

    Beat eggs with sugar in a mixer, add lemon zest and vanilla sugar at the end.

  9. Step 9:

    Step 9.

    And mix them in three premas spinach mixture with flour and baking powder.

  10. Step 10:

    Step 10.

    Pour the sponge cake on a baking sheet and bake for 25 minutes at 180 degrees.

  11. Step 11:

    Step 11.

    Remove the finished biscuit from the baking sheet, let it cool.With a pizza knife, or better, with molds, cut out "stars", one larger than the other from a biscuit.

  12. Step 12:

    Step 12.

    Cream 2: Whisk fat cold cream with powdered sugar.

  13. Step 13:

    Step 13.

    Cream from cream lubricate the Christmas trees and the sides of the cake.It is not necessary to align the sides of the cake, we lubricate it carelessly so that it resembles snow, snowdrifts.

  14. Step 14:

    Step 14.

    We put Christmas trees one on the cake, the other next to it.

  15. Step 15:

    Step 15.

    Sprinkle with powdered sugar. The cake is ready! We serve it on the festive table, celebrate the New Year or Christmas!

Calorie content of the products possible in the dish

  • Chicken egg - 157   kcal/100g
  • Egg white - 45   kcal/100g
  • Egg powder - 542   kcal/100g
  • Egg yolk - 352   kcal/100g
  • Ostrich egg - 118   kcal/100g
  • Walnuts - 650   kcal/100g
  • Black Walnut English Walnut - 628   kcal/100g
  • Black Persian Walnut - 651   kcal/100g
  • Walnut oil - 925   kcal/100g
  • Spinach - 22   kcal/100g
  • Whole durum wheat flour fortified - 333   kcal/100g
  • Whole durum wheat flour, universal - 364   kcal/100g
  • Flour krupchatka - 348   kcal/100g
  • Flour - 325   kcal/100g
  • Granulated sugar - 398   kcal/100g
  • Sugar - 398   kcal/100g
  • Vanilla - 288   kcal/100g
  • Condensed milk with sugar - 324   kcal/100g
  • Butter 82% - 734   kcal/100g
  • Amateur unsalted butter - 709   kcal/100g
  • Unsalted peasant butter - 661   kcal/100g
  • Peasant salted butter - 652   kcal/100g
  • Melted butter - 869   kcal/100g
  • Prunes - 227   kcal/100g
  • Vegetable oil - 873   kcal/100g
  • Cocoa powder - 374   kcal/100g
  • Citric acid - 0   kcal/100g
  • Salt - 0   kcal/100g
  • Cream 35% - 337   kcal/100g
  • Cream 40% - 362   kcal/100g
  • Baking powder - 79   kcal/100g
  • Powdered sugar - 374   kcal/100g
  • Lemon zest - 47   kcal/100g
  • Vanilla sugar - 379   kcal/100g
  • Egg whites - 44   kcal/100g

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