Cakes

Slummuterta

From
Ásthildur

Ingredients

Chocolate cream

  • 150–200 g chocolate5½–7 oz chocolate
  • 3 tbsp water, hot
  • 3 egg yolks
  • 2 tbsp icing sugar (powdered sugar)
  • about 1 dl cream, whippedabout ½ cup cream, whipped

Assembly

  • plain (white) sponge cake layer
  • white meringue layer
  • ½ litre whipping cream, whipped2 cups whipping cream, whipped

Method

Chocolate cream

  1. Put the chocolate and hot water in a pan and melt over a low heat.
  2. Let it cool a little.
  3. Whisk the egg yolks and icing sugar into the chocolate.
  4. Finally fold in about 1 dl of whipped cream.Finally fold in about ½ cup of whipped cream.

Assembly

  1. The two layers are put together with the chocolate cream and whipped cream as follows.
  2. Spread some of the chocolate cream over the sponge layer.
  3. Then add a layer of whipped cream and put the meringue layer on top.
  4. Spread the rest of the whipped cream over the meringue.
  5. Finally pour the rest of the chocolate cream over the top.

As she wrote it

Her page in the recipe book
Slummuterta
(Ásthildur)
Hvítur botn + hvítur marengsb. settir saman með kremi og Rjóma
Krem: 150-200gr. súkkul. ) Sett í pott 3 msk. heitt vatn ) og brætt
Kælt. Tvær þrjár eggjarauður + 2 msk. flórs. þeyttar saman við súkkul. síðast ca. 1 dl. þ. Rjómi. Krem smurt á svampbotn. svo þeyttur Rjómi -> marengsbotn, rest af þeytta Rjómanum (1/2 l.) svo rest af kremi hellt yfir.