My Favorite Cake

Total Time: 3 hrs 30 mins Preparation Time: 30 mins Cook Time: 3 hrs

Ingredients

• Servings: 8
• 1/2 cup unsalted butter (at room temp.)
• 2 egg yolks
• 2 tablespoons sugar
• 1 -1 1/2 cup self-rising flour (or add 1 teaspoon baking powder for each cup of all-purpose flour)
• 4 egg whites
• 1 1/3 cups sugar
• 8 ounces heavy whipping cream
• 3 teaspoons sugar
• 1 teaspoon instant coffee granules
• chocolate syrup

Recipe

• 1 if preparing the meringue from scratch, follow this step first.
• 2 preheat oven to 150, prepare a 9 inch spring form pan, by buttering and lining with parchment paper.
• 3 in a medium bowl, beat egg whites until very stiff, gradually adding sugar.
• 4 pour mixture into the prepared pan and bake until very dry and crispy.
• 5 the meringue should not brown too much at this temperature.
• 6 this baking time will take approximately 1.
• 7 5 hours.
• 8 remove the parchment paper with the meringue from the springform pan.
• 9 peel the parchment paper from the bottom of the meringue disk, and chill at room temperature.
• 10 you will use this same pan for the crust, in order to ensure the layers will match in size.
• 11 prepare the crust by mixing all the ingredients together.
• 12 raise oven temperature to 375 degrees.
• 13 bake in the 9 inch pan for 10 minutes.
• 14 cool crust completely.
• 15 to prepare cream filling, whip the cream, sugar and coffee granules in a small bowl until stiff.
• 16 when crust is completely cool, pour filling into the crust still in the pan.
• 17 top of the cake with the meringue disk.
• 18 if using store bought meringue cookies, arrange them nicely on top.
• 19 drizzle cake with chocolate syrup.
• 20 refrigerate 24 hours before serving.
• 21 enjoy!
• 22 this cake will be a little crumbly when slicing, but don't let that deceive you.
• 23 it's very good.