The dessert, which will be discussed in this article, is a real find for spoiled sweets and those who seek to please them with something special. Today, the king of the party and the subject of discussion, we choose the cake "Snickers" with meringues! Sounds tempting, right? This dessert combines all the most delicious that can be found in two other goodies familiar to everyone - the famous "Kiev" cake and the bar of the same name with caramel, nuts and nougat.
We are sure that you cannot wait to try it. But where is this to be found? You don’t have to search for anything. We offer you to cook your own Snickers cake with meringue. The recipe with a photo step by step (at home) will be provided to you for your own pastry experiment. All ingredients, as well as all stages of preparation, are simple enough to realize this delicious undertaking at home without much difficulty.
To please the tastes of more sweet tooth readers, we’ll show you several options for making Snickers meringue cake. The recipe (with photo) classic will be the basis. Let's get started!
Classics of the genre: cake with peanuts and boiled condensed milk
The first thing you need to go to the store and purchase all the necessary ingredients. What products do we need? He will tell about what is included in the Snickers cake with meringue, a recipe with a photo, presented below.
This dessert includes three main components - cake (dough), air meringue and cream. The fourth component will be chocolate icing, covering a Snickers cake with a thick layer of meringue.
Preparation of components for dessert
Ingredients for cake:
- 350-400 grams of sifted flour;
- two eggs;
- a glass of granulated sugar;
- half a glass of milk (room temperature);
- half a glass of sunflower oil;
- 10 grams (or bag) of vanilla sugar;
- 2 large spoons of cocoa powder;
- half a bag of baking powder (can be replaced with a teaspoon of soda, slaked with lemon juice).
As you can see, the ingredients for the dough are simple. Since we plan to cook the whole Snickers cake with meringues at home, we will also make the air-nut mass on our own.
To do this, you need to worry in advance about the presence of the following products at home:
- four egg whites;
- a glass of granulated sugar and peanuts.
Cream for the cake to your taste should resemble our favorite Snickers bar. To make it easier is simple - use boiled condensed milk (one jar) and peanuts. You can cook condensed milk on your own or purchase a ready-made version in the supermarket - here focus on your own preferences. Same thing with nuts. However, we advise you not to spare a little time and buy raw peanuts, which can be dried in the oven or roasted in a pan. In extreme cases, a microwave will do. Firstly, this way you can independently adjust the degree of frying. Secondly, be safe and heat the nuts, which is especially recommended if nuts are bought by weight in the market.
All the necessary ingredients are bought - you can proceed to confectionery witchcraft. How to cook Snickers cake with meringue?
Recipe (with photo, step by step)
At home, as a rule, the most difficult thing to successfully bake cakes. They are the basis of the cake, so we'll start with them. First, mix the ingredients for the dough in the following sequence. Sift flour into a separate bowl, mix with baking powder. In another bowl, beat the whisk with ordinary and vanilla sugar. Then gradually introduce sunflower oil and slightly warmed milk into this mass. Mix until smooth. Now pour the flour mixture in small portions. Whisk together with active, but neat movements.
Further, we have two options - bake cakes in one or two sets. In the first case, you will need to keep the dough in the oven a little longer, but the total cooking time will not change much. If this is the first time you bake a Snickers cake with meringue, then it is better to stop on the second method, since not everyone can cut the finished cake in half so that the output turns out to be smooth, non-breaking layers.
We pour part of the dough into a medium-diameter shape (24-26 centimeters), pre-lubricating it with vegetable oil. You can use parchment if you like it better. You need to take a detachable form so that you can easily remove ready-made cakes. We send the dough to the oven for 20 minutes (you can check the readiness with a wooden toothpick). The oven must be preheated to 180 degrees. Since we have two cakes, we repeat the procedure twice.
As the Snickers cake with meringue is being prepared, the recipe (with photo) of this airy component for dessert will be next in line.
How not to spoil the meringues?
In the preparation of the "air cushion" it is important to follow simple rules, the observance of which will allow achieving a perfect result even for a beginner in the confectionery art. First, the meringue proteins should be pre-cooled. This is necessary so that they are easily whipped into a dense foam. The second - in the process of whipping, add to them a little (a couple of drops) of lemon juice or a small pinch of salt. It will also help to achieve an elastic shiny protein mass.
We start whisking the cooled proteins first to a light foam, so that the mass is approximately doubled. Then gradually pour sugar (for better dissolution, you can pre-grind it to a powder). The result should be a white shiny mass with elastic peaks. We baked cakes and left to cool, and in the meantime, you can send meringues to the oven.
Bake a nut-nut cookie
Each in his own way prepares a Snickers cake with meringues. The recipe for the same dessert always has different variations and nuances. So, we will bake meringues immediately with nuts (if there is too much left, it can be eaten just like that - with a cup of tea). Someone prepares it without everything, and already during the assembly adds peanuts.
Take pre-fried or dried nuts and grind them with a rolling pin, after pouring them into a plastic bag. You can also use a food processor (grinder). Now carefully pour the peanuts into the protein mass and mix evenly from the bottom up.
On a baking sheet covered with parchment, we shift with the help of a large spoon our air-nut mass. No need to make very large cookies - this will increase the baking time. The temperature in the oven should be at the level of 110-130 degrees, the cooking time - about an hour. But be careful not to dry the meringues. We get out and leave the cookies to cool. Next in line is a cream.
A Worthy Caramel Alternative from Snickers
The cream is prepared as simple as possible - boiled condensed milk is whipped with butter. To do this, it is best to use a mixer or blender, since the whisk will not allow to achieve the same uniformity and consistency.
Cream Cooking Tips
- To make Snickers cake with meringue more airy both in taste and shape, it is better to take condensed milk chilled. So she whips better, not turning into too liquid mass. Oil, on the contrary, is better to get out of the refrigerator first so that it softens (but not much).
- Beat butter until creamy, then add condensed milk and taste. Achieved the desired sweetness, caramel and airy consistency of the cream - turn off the mixer and put the workpiece in the refrigerator.
What snickers without chocolate icing? We offer you two glaze options - holiday and budget.
Creamy Chocolate Sauce
In the first case, it will be fatter, but, in our opinion, more suitable for such a "crazy" dessert. For cooking, you need cream 33%, if the fat content is less, the icing will turn thinner. You also need a bar of chocolate - you can use both milk and dark (to your taste).
Heat the cream over medium heat. Break the chocolate into pieces and throw in the same saucepan. Stir the mass until a homogeneous consistency and remove from heat. Cool slightly.
Chocolate glaze: economy option
If you have cocoa powder, milk and sugar at home (and pastry lovers probably have these products), then the following recipe is ideal for you. Heat milk (3-4 tablespoons) over a fire, pour a large spoonful of cocoa and 3 tablespoons of sugar. The number and proportions of the components in this case may vary, depending on your taste. Mix everything, cook until thick and set aside to cool.
It's time to free up the workplace for the most interesting stage - the assembly of the cake.
The final part - we collect dessert
Time to bring our creation to full readiness. Collecting Snickers cake with meringues is easy and pleasant. Prepare a large flat dish where you will collect and serve dessert to the table. We collect all the ingredients on one kitchen surface - cakes, meringues, cream and glaze. We start with the basics. We put cakes on the dish, on top caramel (a thick layer of cream of condensed milk), then - air-nut cakes, pressing them tightly to each other. For better impregnation, meringues can be chopped a little (into large pieces). Then again the cream and the second cake. We also gently coat the sides and sprinkle with the same crushed nuts that were in the meringue.
The top cake is left ungreased. Pour it generously with chocolate icing - so that it flows down on the sides and covers the nut sides. Voila! Our bombing dessert is almost ready. It remains only to give him time to soak - so that the taste is richer and the cake softer. We put it in the refrigerator for several hours and remove it immediately before serving.
Dessert variations: variety of ingredients
So your first Snickers cake with meringues and nuts is ready. A step-by-step recipe with a photo helped you cope with this task so that the result will please both you and your loved ones. In the future, if everyone liked the dessert, you can add a little creativity and experiment with the recipe. What can be changed?
First of all, nuts. You probably tried Snickers bars, which came out in limited editions. At different times, the famous chocolate was produced with almonds, hazelnuts (and took a strong position in the market) and even with seeds. You can do the same if you want to make Snickers cake with meringues with variations. Just use other nuts or their mix in the recipe, for example.
In addition, you can experiment with the cream - instead of boiled condensed milk, take the usual one (goes well with almonds and cashew nuts). Or make a cake filled with caramel. To do this, you only need cream, sugar and a little vanilla. Or prepare a cream based on milk jelly and butter - a more refined option for lovers of a gentle and not very sweet cream.
The same story is with icing - use white chocolate instead of dark, and your dessert will sparkle with new colors and tastes!
Creativity in the kitchen - variety on the table
We hope you have a good Snickers cake with meringues. The recipe (with photo), implemented at home, can be changed, getting dozens of different variations. The recipe presented here is the basis, a classic of the genre. Everything else is limited only by your imagination and desires.