Black Or White Cake
By: Brindusa
Published: Friday, July 2, 2010 - 6:26am

Ingredients




Bottom layer
5 eggs, separated
180 grams icing sugar
50 grams flour
40 grams cocoa
1 teaspoon baking powder
Cream
100 grams butter
200 grams sugar
6 egg yolks
50 grams cocoa
Meringue
6 egg whites
300 grams granulated sugar

Preparation

1 Bottom layer: Preheat oven to 180C and prepare a tray maximum size 40 cm x 40 cm. If pan is bigger, the layer is too thin. Brush it with butter and coat it with flour. Beat well egg whites until hard. Mix egg yolks with sugar until they turn white. Add in yolks flour, cocoa, baking powder (sifted in advance). stir well. Add the egg whites slightly. Pour into shape and bake 15 minutes, until dough is half done. Put meringue and cook  15 more minutes. 2 Meringue: Hard beat egg whites, then add a teaspoon of sugar at a time, beating well after each addition. 3 Take the cake out of the oven and allow to cool. 4 Cream: Melt in a double boiler (over steam), sugar, yolks and cocoa until the cream hardens. Allow to cool and mix butter in it. Spread over meringue. 5 Leave overnight in refrigerator.