Hello everybody, it is Jim, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, lemon meringue cake. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Lemon meringue cake is one of the most popular of recent trending foods on earth. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. Lemon meringue cake is something which I have loved my entire life. They are nice and they look fantastic.
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To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook lemon meringue cake using 10 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Lemon meringue cake:
- Take 6 eggs at room temperature
- Prepare 3/4 cup caster sugar
- Prepare 2 tsp finely grated lemon rind
- Prepare 1 cup plain flour
- Get 50 grams unsalted butter, melted
- Take 2/3 cup lemon curd
- Make ready 3/4 cup caster sugar
- Make ready 1 tbsp liquid glucose
- Take 2 tbsp water
- Make ready 3 egg whites, at room temperture
One of my all-time favorite lemon cake recipes and it's from my cookbook, The European Cake Cookbook! In all honesty, the origin of this cake is simply that I cannot make a go of a lemon meringue pie. I've tried, and I've tried, and it's not that I've utterly failed, but I haven't completely delighted myself. Have you ever noticed that the best thing to pair with lemon seems to be. . . lemon?
Steps to make Lemon meringue cake:
- Grease a 22cm round x 7cm deep cake pan. Line with baking paper.
- Beat eggs, sugar and rind in a large bowl of an electric mixer for about 8 to 10 minutes, until thick and tripled in size. Fold in sifted flour. Transfer 1/2 cup of egg mixture to a small bowl. Stir in butter. Fold back into egg mixture. Pour into prepared pan.
- Cook in a moderately slow oven ( 160 C) for about 30 minutes, or until golden brown and cake shrinks away from side of pan. Stand for 5 minutes, turn out on a wire rack to cool.
- To make Italian meringue,combine sugar, glucose and water in a small heavy-based saucepan. Stir gently over a low heat until dissolved. Bring to boil. Place a candy thermometer into boiling syrup, boil without stirring, for about 4 minutes, or until temperature reaches 121C (hard-ball stage) remove from heat.
- Meanwhile, beat egg whites in a large bowl of an electric mixer until soft peaks form. Don't over-beat. Beating on a medium speed, slowly pour the hot syrup steadily into egg whites continue to beat for 8 to 10 minutes, or until meringue is cold.
- To assemble, cut cake horizontally into three even layers. Sandwich together with curd on a serving plate. Spread 1 1/4 cups of meringue over top and side of cake. Place remaining meringue into a piping bag fitted with a 2cm plain nozzle. Pipe on top of cake. Use a blowtorch to brown meringue just before serving.
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