Steps to Make Ultimate Lemon meringue cake

Hey everyone, I hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, lemon meringue cake. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Lemon meringue cake is one of the most popular of recent trending meals in the world. It is appreciated by millions every day. It is simple, it is fast, it tastes delicious. They are fine and they look wonderful. Lemon meringue cake is something which I have loved my whole life.

To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have lemon meringue cake using 10 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Lemon meringue cake:

1. Get 6 eggs at room temperature
2. Prepare 3/4 cup caster sugar
3. Take 2 tsp finely grated lemon rind
4. Prepare 1 cup plain flour
5. Take 50 grams unsalted butter, melted
6. Make ready 2/3 cup lemon curd
7. Make ready 3/4 cup caster sugar
8. Prepare 1 tbsp liquid glucose
9. Take 2 tbsp water
10. Get 3 egg whites, at room temperture

Instructions to make Lemon meringue cake:

1. Grease a 22cm round x 7cm deep cake pan. Line with baking paper.
2. Beat eggs, sugar and rind in a large bowl of an electric mixer for about 8 to 10 minutes, until thick and tripled in size. Fold in sifted flour. Transfer 1/2 cup of egg mixture to a small bowl. Stir in butter. Fold back into egg mixture. Pour into prepared pan.
3. Cook in a moderately slow oven ( 160 C) for about 30 minutes, or until golden brown and cake shrinks away from side of pan. Stand for 5 minutes, turn out on a wire rack to cool.
4. To make Italian meringue,combine sugar, glucose and water in a small heavy-based saucepan. Stir gently over a low heat until dissolved. Bring to boil. Place a candy thermometer into boiling syrup, boil without stirring, for about 4 minutes, or until temperature reaches 121C (hard-ball stage) remove from heat.
5. Meanwhile, beat egg whites in a large bowl of an electric mixer until soft peaks form. Don't over-beat. Beating on a medium speed, slowly pour the hot syrup steadily into egg whites continue to beat for 8 to 10 minutes, or until meringue is cold.
6. To assemble, cut cake horizontally into three even layers. Sandwich together with curd on a serving plate. Spread 1 1/4 cups of meringue over top and side of cake. Place remaining meringue into a piping bag fitted with a 2cm plain nozzle. Pipe on top of cake. Use a blowtorch to brown meringue just before serving.

So that’s going to wrap it up with this exceptional food lemon meringue cake recipe. Thanks so much for your time. I’m sure you can make this at home. There is gonna be more interesting food at home recipes coming up. Remember to save this page on your browser, and share it to your loved ones, colleague and friends. Thank you for reading. Go on get cooking!