Name: Praline meringue cake with strawberries
Cook time: 1 h
Total time: 2 h 30 min
Yield: 12
Cuisine: Australian
Ingredients: 175g whole almond toasted; 225g golden caster sugar; 225g light muscovado sugar; 6 egg whites; 1 tbsp cornflour; 2 tsp white wine vinegar; 1kg strawberry hulled and halved, or quartered if large; 586ml icing sugar plus extra for decorating; 586g pot double cream

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Praline meringue cake with strawberries

Praline meringue cake with strawberries

Sara Buenfeld

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Serves 12

Easy

Prep: 30 mins

Cook: 1 hr

Ready in 1 hour 30 mins + 1 hour cooling

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A caramel-flavoured praline meringue that's perfect for a summer's day

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Ingredients

Nutrition

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For the meringue

175g whole almond

toasted
225g golden caster sugar
225g light muscovado sugar
6 egg whites
1 tbsp cornflour
2 tsp white wine vinegar

To assemble

1kg strawberry

hulled and halved, or quartered if large
586ml icing sugar

plus extra for decorating
586g pot double cream

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Nutrition: per serving

kcal533
fat35g
saturates35g
carbs51g
sugars50g
fibre2g
protein7g
salt0.16g

low

Method

step 1

Heat oven to 140C/fan 120C/gas 1, and line two flat baking sheets with baking parchment. Whizz about two-thirds of the toasted almonds in a food processor until chopped. Don’t let them start to look greasy or clump together – they should still be in pieces rather than ground. Roughly chop the remaining third with a knife.
step 2

Stir the sugars together. Using an electric hand whisk, beat the egg whites in a large bowl until stiff, then add the sugar in three batches, beating the mixture back to stiff after each addition. Add the cornflour and vinegar, and keep going until the meringue mixture is glossy and so stiff that the beaters begin to feel heavy when stirring – this can take up to 5 mins.
step 3

Quickly fold in all of the finely chopped nuts and most of the roughly chopped with a spatula, then divide the mixture between the two baking sheets. Spread both into 20cm circles, then scatter the remaining chopped nuts over. Bake for 1 hr, then turn the oven off and leave the meringues inside to cool for at least 1 hr. Leave the oven door closed (this will help to prevent them cracking). Will keep overnight in an airtight container, or freeze, wrapped in cling film, for up to 1 month.
step 4

For the strawberry sauce, purée 600g of the strawberries in a food processor or blender. Press through a sieve to remove the seeds, then sweeten with 2 tbsp of the icing sugar. Can be made up to 1 day ahead. Sieve the remaining icing sugar into the double cream, whip until it just holds its shape, then carefully swirl through two-thirds of the sauce.
step 5

To serve, slide one of the meringues off its baking parchment onto a serving plate, then spread over half the cream. Place the second meringue on top, pile over the rest of the cream and top with the remaining strawberries. Dust with a little more icing sugar if you like, and serve the leftover strawberry sauce alongside.

Recipe from Good Food magazine, June 2008

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