Lemon meringue cake recipe
Just four ingredients is all you need for these sweet lemon meringue bars. Crushed meringues are stirred into white chocolate with a hit of lemon for an easy treat to make with kids, or wrap up and give as a simple edible gift.
See method- Serves 4
- 10 mins to prepare and 10 mins to cook and 1 hour to cool
- 447 calories / serving
Ingredients
- 4 meringue nests, chopped
- 300g white chocolate, roughly chopped
- 50ml lemon juice
- 1tsp extract of lemon
Each serving contains
- Energy
- 1870kJ 447.0kcal
- Fat
- 23g
- Saturates
- 14g
- Salt
- 0.3g
- Sugars
- 56g
of the Reference intake
Carbohydrate 56.3gProtein 6.7gFibre 0.0g
Method
- Grease and line a 7inch springform square cake tin with nonstick baking paper. Place the chocolate in a large heatproof bowl and sit over a saucepan of gently simmering water.
- Stir until just melted, then remove from the heat and add the lemon juice, extract of lemon and chopped meringue.
- Fold gently to mix well then spoon into the lined cake tin.
- Chill for 1 hour until set. When ready to serve, turn out from the tin and cut into square portions. Serve stacked in presentation boxes.
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