Almond Meringue Cake with Strawberry and Vanilla Ice Cream

Name: Almond Meringue Cake with Strawberry and Vanilla Ice Cream
Yield: Serves 8 to 10
Cuisine: French
Ingredients: 4 tablespoons, granulated sugar plus 1/3 cup; 2/3 cup, confectioners' sugar; 1/2 cup, large egg whites from about 4 eggs, at room temperature; 1/3 cup, chopped almonds; 1 quart, strawberry ice cream, softened slightly; 1 quart, vanilla ice cream, softened slightly; 1 1/2 cups, sliced almonds, toasted; , fresh strawberries for garnish

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Appears in Cook's Illustrated May/June 1995

Desserts or Baked Goods

Pastry teacher Flo Braker adds sugar in three stages, pipes the meringues immediately, and uses small "test" meringues to check for doneness.

SERVES8 to 10

TIME2 hours, plus 30 minutes cooling and 6 hours freezing

WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

For our meringue recipe, we wanted meringues with just the right amount of sweetness. So we added just enough sugar to ensure that the meringue hardened properly but not so much that it was cloying. We added the sugar to the meringue in thr...

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