Desserts

Elsa's icing sugar meringue

From
Elsa
Oven
130 °C130 °C (275 °F)

Ingredients

Meringue

  • 4 egg whites
  • 200 g icing sugar (powdered sugar)7 oz icing sugar (powdered sugar)
  • 50 g dates, finely chopped2 oz dates, finely chopped
  • 50 g chocolate, finely chopped2 oz chocolate, finely chopped

Filling

  • 1½ peli (about 375 ml) whipping cream (A peli is an old Icelandic measure of about 250 ml.)
  • 2 bananas, sliced

Method

Meringue

  1. Heat the oven to 130°C. Line two baking sheets with baking paper and draw a circle about 22 cm across on each.Heat the oven to 275 °F. Line two baking sheets with baking paper and draw a circle about 9 in across on each.
  2. Whisk the egg whites until stiff, then add the icing sugar a little at a time and whisk until the meringue is stiff and glossy.
  3. Gently fold in the chopped dates and chocolate and spread the meringue over the two circles.
  4. Bake at 130°C for about 45 minutes in the middle of the oven.Bake at 275 °F for about 45 minutes in the middle of the oven.
  5. The meringue should be a pale golden brown.
  6. Let the layers cool completely.

Filling

  1. Whip the cream and slice the bananas.
  2. Sandwich the meringue layers together with the cream and bananas.

As she wrote it

Her page in the recipe book
Flórsykurmarengs
(Elsa)
4eggjahvítur - 200gr. flórsykur 50gr. Döðlur — 50gr. súkkul. 1 1/2 peli Rjómi og 2 bananar sett á milli
130°C, ca.45 min. miðjum ofni Bakist gulbrúnn.