Girl was flipping idly through Sue Lawrence's Book of Baking when her eye fell on a recipe for Chocolate Meringue cake. Instantly intrigued, Girl read on and upon discovering that she had almost all the ingredients in her store cupboard, she immediately started making this decadent-looking cake...
The basic idea was to make a chocolate cake batter with egg yolks and then a meringue with the egg whites. The chocolate cake batter was poured into two cake tins and the meringue was spread on the chocolate batter. The two cakes were baked for about 30 minutes. The two layers were then assembled, sandwiched with whipped cream (Sue Lawrence suggested a lemon curd filling but Girl took the short cut).
To see a slightly different recipe for this cake...go over to Joy Of Baking...
