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Brown sugar meringue cake with chocolate icing

Oven
125 °C125 °C (250 °F)
Tin
36½ cm × 38 cm14 in × 15 in

Ingredients

Meringue layers

  • 4 egg whites
  • 160 g light brown sugar5½ oz light brown sugar
  • 100 g sugar3½ oz sugar
  • 4 dl Rice Krispies (puffed rice cereal) (Added later in blue ink: 4 dl = 40 g, 6 dl = 60 g.)1⅔ cups Rice Krispies (puffed rice cereal) (Added later in blue ink: 4 dl = 40 g, 6 dl = 60 g.)
  • ½ tsp baking powder

Chocolate icing

  • 4 egg yolks
  • 50 g icing sugar (powdered sugar)2 oz icing sugar (powdered sugar)
  • 100 g chocolate, melted3½ oz chocolate, melted
  • 40 g butter1½ oz butter

Mars bar icing

  • 3–4 Mars bars, large
  • about 50 g butter (Amount missing on the page; 50 g is a suggestion.)about 2 oz butter (Amount missing on the page; 50 g is a suggestion.)
  • egg yolks (The number is not given; see review.)

Assembly

  • ¾ litre whipping cream, whipped (½ + ¼ litre, ¾ litre in all.)3¼ cups whipping cream, whipped (½ + ¼ litre, ¾ litre in all.)
  • 2 Mars bars, chopped

Method

Meringue layers

  1. Heat the oven to 125°C (fan). Draw two rectangles, about 36½ cm x 38 cm, on baking paper on two baking sheets.Heat the oven to 250 °F (fan). Draw two rectangles, about 14 in x 15 in, on baking paper on two baking sheets.
  2. Whisk the egg whites until foamy, then add the brown sugar and sugar a little at a time. Whisk until stiff and glossy.
  3. Mix the baking powder into the Rice Krispies and fold gently into the meringue. Divide between the two rectangles and smooth out.
  4. Bake at 125°C (fan) for about 1½ hours. Let the layers cool completely.Bake at 250 °F (fan) for about 1½ hours. Let the layers cool completely.

Chocolate icing

  1. Whisk the egg yolks and icing sugar together until pale and thick.
  2. Melt the chocolate and butter together and stir into the egg mixture.
  3. Leave the icing to cool.

Mars bar icing

  1. Put the Mars bars in a pan with the butter and melt them together over a low heat.
  2. Take the pan off the heat and whisk the egg yolks in very well.
  3. Pour the icing over the cake once it has been assembled.

Assembly

  1. Whip the cream. Chop 2 Mars bars and stir them into the cream. Sandwich the two brown sugar meringue layers together with the cream.
  2. Top with the icing (or melt some chocolate and let it drip over, see tip).

Notes

  • Don't spread icing on top of the cake, it is too thick. It is better, and prettier, to melt chocolate and let it drip over.

Other batch sizes

1½ batch (6 egg whites)

Meringue layers

  • 6 egg whites
  • 250 g light brown sugar9 oz light brown sugar
  • 150 g sugar5½ oz sugar
  • 6 dl Rice Krispies (puffed rice cereal)2½ cups Rice Krispies (puffed rice cereal)
  • 1 tsp baking powder

Chocolate icing

  • 6 egg yolks
  • 75 g icing sugar (powdered sugar)2½ oz icing sugar (powdered sugar)
  • 150 g chocolate, melted5½ oz chocolate, melted
  • 60 g butter2 oz butter

As she wrote it
Her page in the recipe book
Púðursykurmarengs. m/súkk. kremi
4 eggjahv. - 160gr. púðursykur 100gr. sykur - 4 dl. 40gr. Rice Krispies - 1/2 tsk. lyftid. X 6 eggjahv. - …gr 250gr. púðursykur 150gr. sykur - 60 gr 6 dl. Rice Kr. - 1 tsk. lyftid.
125°c m/blæstri, ca. 1 1/2 klst. 36,5 x 38 cm. x 2 botnar
Krem: 4 rauður (circled: 6 rauður) + 75 + 50 gr. flórsykur > þeytt saman 150 100gr. br. súkkul. + (or 50) 40gr. smjör hrært útí kælt
Marssúkkul. ~~Krem~~ krem: 3-4 stór Mars sett í pott m/ca. gr. smjör
br. saman, eggjarauður þeyttar mjög vel útí, hellt yfir tertuna. 2 púðurs. botnar settir saman með 1/2 + 1/4 l. Rjóma, brytja 2 Mars útí Rjómann sem settir eru á milli. (Ekki láta krem ofaná tertuna. of þykkt betra, fallegra, að bræða súkkul. og láta leka)