Sometimes you want to impress your friends or relatives with some spectacular and tasty dish. If you decide that it will be a cake, then try to cook at least once “Count Ruins”. The recipe is simple and affordable in terms of composition. But the result will surely please you, because this dessert is very beautiful and tasty.
Cake "Count ruins"
The classic recipe for this treat involves, to put it simply, a combination of crispy meringues (protein meringues), pastry cream and melted chocolate. This is the basis and necessary components of such a cake. By learning how to cook this treat in the traditional way, you can easily modernize it and create your own culinary masterpieces, taking into account the personal preferences of your family. So, we begin to create meringue cake
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• Recipe: make 4 egg whites, sugar ¾ cup, a bar of chocolate, a can of condensed milk and a pack of good butter. Nuts, raisins and dried apricots as desired.
• Cool the proteins and place them in a container in which you will beat the mass for meringues. If you have a harvester, it will be even easier to make meringues for the cake “Count Ruins”. The recipe stipulates that sugar should not be added to the protein mass before it reaches a certain dense consistency. Some housewives verify this by flipping a bowl of protein foam - if the contents do not drop out, then it is ready.
• Sugar needs to be entered in small parts, without interrupting whipping. The finished meringue base will be viscous, dense and slightly glossy.
• Place a sheet of pastry paper on a baking sheet. Place the protein mass in a pastry bag and squeeze small outlets onto a baking sheet. If you don’t have a pastry syringe or bag, do not be discouraged: since the meringues will be hidden under a layer of cream and chocolate, their shape does not matter much for the appearance of the cake. Use two tablespoons to gently lay the protein mass on a baking sheet.
• To make the meringues tasty, you need to bake them at a temperature of 100 0 C. This process will not resemble baking, but rather, drying the meringues in the oven. If the temperature is higher, these important parts of the future cake will become a beige color due to the fact that sugar is caramelized. Although some confectioners even like it.
• The cream is prepared very simply: you need to beat soft butter,
gradually adding condensed milk.
• Now you can start assembling the cake "Count Ruins". The recipe of a traditional product describes this stage as an arbitrary combination of individual meringues, oiled with cream, in a certain design resembling a slide. It is in the process of combining all parts, as a rule, you need to add additional ingredients.
• The finished design is poured with melted chocolate, you can home-made chocolate icing.
Variations on the theme "Cake meringue " Count ruins "
Each housewife can change the recipe for this delicious dessert at her discretion. For instance:
• You can use cakes on which the entire structure will be held.
• Crispy meringues can be combined with slices of tender biscuit or marshmallows.
• Fresh fruits (strawberries, raspberries, currants) fit perfectly into the cream for this cake.