Ice cream meringue cake

Recipes / Appetiziers

This spectacular ice cream meringue cake is super easy using store-bought ice cream and made well in advance to finish off your festive feast with a flourish.

Recipe «Ice cream meringue cake» presented in category Recipes / Appetiziers, to prepare this dish you will need no more minutes. To make this dish at home by prescription from the author Gomer would need: 300g shortbread biscuits, 1/2 cup desiccated coconut, toasted, 125g unsalted butter, melted, 3 x 1L flavoured ice cream, 4 eggwhites , 1 cup caster sugar .

Ingredients:

  • 300g shortbread biscuits 
  • 1/2 cup desiccated coconut, toasted 
  • 125g unsalted butter, melted 
  • 3 x 1L flavoured ice cream 
  • 4 eggwhites 
  • 1 cup caster sugar 

Instructions

  1. Grease and line the base and sides of a 24cm springform cake pan with baking paper.
  2. Whiz biscuits in a food processor to fine crumbs. Add coconut and butter, then whiz to combine. Press half the mixture into the base of the pan. Fill with scoops of ice cream, pressing down gently until pan is full. Scatter over remaining crumb mixture, then cover and freeze overnight.
  3. Beat eggwhites with electric beaters until soft peaks form. Gradually add sugar until stiff peaks form. Fill a piping bag fitted with a plain nozzle with the meringue.
  4. Remove cake from the pan and pipe the meringue all over the top. Brown meringue, using a kitchen blowtorch, until light golden. Slice the cake and serve.