Under the title "Tears of an Angel" lies the classic British recipe for air dessert with merengue. In his classic performance "Tears of an Angel" - a tart on a sand dough, but a wide field for fantasy has transformed this classic recipe into a cheesecake analogue. So the housewives began to prepare the cake "Tears of an angel" with cottage cheese, and even a high-grade biscuit cake. All the variations of this delicacy we will discuss in the recipes further.
Curd cake "Tears of an angel" - recipe
A normal cheesecake can turn into a curd cake "Angel Tears" after adding a cap of lush protein meringue - an incredibly simple but very effective stroke that can decorate any dessert.
Ingredients:
For cheesecake:
- cookies - 250 g;
- butter - 140 g;
- cottage cheese - 500 g;
- sour cream - 300 g;
- sugar - 155 g;
- eggs - 3 pcs.
For merengue:
- egg whites - 3 pcs .;
- granulated sugar - 155 g.
Preparation
Cover the 22 cm form for baking parchment. We turn the cookies into crumbs with a blender and mix with the melted butter. The basis of the cookie is distributed on the bottom and walls of the prepared form, we cover the form with food film and put it in the refrigerator.
We bring the temperature of the oven to 160 ° C. Beat cottage cheese (if it is too granular - pre-wipe it through a sieve) with sour cream and sugar, add eggs. The resulting mass is poured over the base of the biscuit and put the cheesecake in the oven for 1 hour. Let the dessert cool for 2 hours after baking.
For meringue, whisk egg whites with sugar until the air and shiny mass form. We spread the merengue on top of the cheesecake and again have a dessert in the oven, this time heated to 200 ° C. 5-8 minutes and you can extract the treat from the oven. Before serving, the cottage cheese cake "Tears of an Angel" according to this recipe should cool down for 2-3 hours.
Pie "Tears of an angel" with apples
Ingredients:
- ready-made shortbread dough - 435 g;
- apples - 500 g;
- starch - 2 tbsp. spoons;
- lemon juice - 30 ml;
- sugar - 260 g;
- egg whites - 3 pcs .;
- butter - 45 g.
Preparation
Apples are cleaned from the core and cut into cubes. Sprinkle apple slices with lemon juice, put it in a saucepan, sprinkle 120 g of sugar and put on medium heat. When the apples are released juice, pour them with a solution of starch in 60 ml of water and continue to cook until softened. At the end of the cooking, add the butter, once again thoroughly mix everything and remove the filling from the fire, leaving it to cool completely.
Meanwhile, preheat the oven to a temperature of 180 ° C. Roll out the dough and cover it with a mold for the tart, we puncture the base with a fork and bake ourselves for 15 minutes. Fill the base with apple stuffing and cover the merengue, prepared from proteins 3 eggs and the remaining sugar. We return the cake to the oven for another 5 minutes, and then serve it to the table.
How to cook cake "Angel Tears"?
Ingredients:
For biscuit:
- sugar - 220 g;
- flour - 160 g;
- egg whites - 12 pcs .;
- vanillin;
- tartar - 5 g.
For lemon cream:
- lemon juice - 200 ml;
- 1 lemon peel;
- sugar - 130 g;
- eggs - 3 pieces;
- Butter - 70 g.
For merengue:
- egg whites - 4 pcs .;
- sugar - 80 g.
Preparation
For cream on a water bath, mix lemon juice with zest, sugar and eggs with a whisk. Continuously stirring
For a biscuit, we combine sugar (half cup) with flour in one bowl, and in the other we beat eggs with wine stone and salt to soft peaks, and then bring it to solid, gradually adding sugar. Carefully mix the air mass with flour and pour into a 30-cm shape. Bake for 40 minutes, cut in half and grease with lemon cream. Cover the meringue cake and put in the oven for another 18 minutes.
If you want to make the cake "Angel Tears" in the multivark, then to bake the cake choose the "Baking" mode for 1 hour.