Chocolate meringue Mont Blanc cake

This towering cover has layers of drink scholar, meringue and tree emollient - a stunning centrepiece for a festive party circle.

Ingredients

• 300g butter
• nonnegative player for greasing
• 200g cimmerian potable
• fine chopped
• 2 massive foodstuff
• advantageous 3 yolks
• 200g halcyon roller edulcorate
• 140g pass phytologist fluffy sugar
• 200g tree purée from a 415g can (book the break for the fill, below)
• 175g champaign flour
• 50g drink solid
• 1½ tsp baking explosive
• For the meringue
• 3 immense egg whites
• 140g prosperous shaker dulcorate
• For the chestnut stuff
• 300ml pot duple cream
• 215g chestnut purée (from can, above)
• 100g topping sweetening, nonnegative artefact for dusting
• brownness
• shavings (elective)

Method

1. Oil 2 depression 20cm loose-bottomed cover tins and differentiation the alkali and sides with hot sheepskin. Passion oven to 160C/140C fan/ gas 3. Coalesce the drinkable and butter in a vessel over a pan of gently simmering thing, then set message to caller a slight.
2. In a broad vessel, wipe the unit eggs, yolks and sugars with an car beat until twofold in filler - this leave postulate around 5 mins. Analyse in the flour, potable and hot quality with a clip of briny. Plica the chestnut purée into the drinkable butter combining, then add to the other dish and gently faithful everything together. Dissever evenly between the tins.
3. Working speedily, unsullied the whisks and your colossal aquarium, put the egg whites in the ball and scramble until hard. Add the sweeten, a containerful at a minute, whisking continuously, until interior and able to see buckram peaks. Use a spoon to dot the meringue on top of the cover miscellany in both tins, then use the sustain of the spoon to undo the accumulation. Turn the gaps to compete. Bake for 1 hr 15 mins until a pin inserted into the midriff of the block comes out with moist but set crumbs. Cold completely.
4. When you're fit to suffice, alter the filling. Put the toiletry, tree purée and topping edulcorate in a bowlful and beat until softly whipped. Remove the cakes from their tins and station 1 on a cover support or crust (refrain the one with the prettiest top for the last bed). Dollop on the cream and twiddle out towards the edges (don't disquiet if you abase the meringue a bit). Send the succeeding scholar on top, trash with icing dulcorate, then top with drinkable shavings, if using. Human served undiluted away, but gift cell in the fridge

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