I hadn’t baked anything in a while, so last weekend I went all out with this Chocolate and Hazelnut Meringue Cake, found on MyTartelette. I just love her blog, and yes, her photos look infinitely better than mine.
It wasn't very pretty. Meringue in humid weather? Maybe not a good idea.
Perhaps baking a cake — with a meringue, at that — weren’t the best ideas with the recent egg recalls. It was *really* hard for me not to do taste control on the cake batter or the meringue before they went into the oven. Luckily, both turned out just fine.
Nice rise for no leavening agents.
Two things about the flourless cake:
1. Folding six whipped egg whites into the batter is a great arm workout.
2. Wow, it is extremely moist and fudgy.
It was also extremely rich, which I remedied with sliced strawberries.
Light meringue, dense cake
Smaller slice + more strawberries = less guilt about eating cake!
Salmonella is easy to avoid. Just add a few chickens to the back yard! And your cake isn’t helping at all with my lemon meringue pie craving, looks delicious.