The Air Castle Cake

Method

1. 01

   Prepare the necessary products for a cake with a meringue and biscuit.

2. 02

   Make a biscuit. Beat the balls. Slowly pour sugar, while not stopping the whipping. The resulting mass should increase by about 3 times from the initial. In the egg mass in several receptions pour flour. Stir the dough with a spoonful of movements from the bottom up.

3. 03

   Pour the dough into an oil-lubricated form. You can put parchment paper on the bottom and sides of the form - then it will be easier to get a ready-made biscuit. Bake in a preheated to 180 degrees oven for 35 minutes. The oven door should not be opened for the first 25 minutes.

4. 04

   Leave the finished biscuit to cool. Before assembling the cake, the biscuit should stand for at least 7-8 hours.

5. 05

   Prepare the meringue... To do this, carefully separate the proteins from the yolks so that not a drop of the yolk gets into the proteins, otherwise they will not break. The mixer corolla should be dry and clean. Beat the egg whites. Without stopping the whipping, pour sugar in a thin stream. Climb to steady peaks.

6. 06

   With the help of a confectionery syringe (or spoon), lay out the protein mass on the pan. I made some of the meringue with a pastry syringe, and these meringues went to decorate the cake. And part of it just laid out with a spoon and gave it a flatter shape. These mezes went to the cake layer. Mezel is usually baked on parchment paper. If you do not have it (like me), you can bake a meringue on a buttered baking baking pan. It had no effect on the result. If the proteins are well whipped, they will not spread.

7. 07

   Bake for 10 minutes in a 150-degree oven. Then lower the temperature to 100 degrees and dry the meringue for another 2 hours.

8. 08

   Prepare the syrup for impregnation of biscuit cakes. In warm boiled water dissolve the sugar. When the syrup cools, add some cognac or other alcohol.

9. 09

   Make the cream. Room temperature oil, beat it. In several receptions, without stopping whipping, add condensed.

10. 10

    Cut the biscuit cakes in half. Soak the first cake with syrup and smear it with cream.

11. 11

    On top, lay out the meringue and lubricate them with a little cream.

12. 12

    Prunes, pour boiling water. Pour the water and dry it. Cut the nuts with a knife, but not very finely. Fill the voids between the nuts and prunes.

13. 13

    The second biscuit cake is also soaked, grease with cream and lay on top on a layer of meringue with prunes and nuts. Spray the whole cake with the remaining cream.

14. 14

    Sprinkle the cake grated on a fine grater with chocolate and decorate with "towers" from mez.

15. 15

    Before serving, cake "Air Castle", it is desirable to give to stand for 3-4 hours in the refrigerator.