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Lemon meringue cake

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Lemon meringue cake

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You can cook Lemon meringue cake using 10 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients cook Lemon meringue cake

  1. It's 6 eggs at room temperature.
  2. Prepare 3/4 cup caster sugar.
  3. You need 2 tsp finely grated lemon rind.
  4. Prepare 1 cup plain flour.
  5. It's 50 grams unsalted butter, melted.
  6. You need 2/3 cup lemon curd.
  7. Prepare 3/4 cup caster sugar.
  8. It's 1 tbsp liquid glucose.
  9. You need 2 tbsp water.
  10. It's 3 egg whites, at room temperture.

Lemon meringue cake instructions

  1. Grease a 22cm round x 7cm deep cake pan. Line with baking paper..
  2. 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..
  3. 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..
  4. 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..
  5. 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..
  6. 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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