Cake #63 - Lemon Meringue Cat

Thursday Cat Theme Cake - Lemon Meringue Cat.

Bake a Lemon Meringue Pie disguised as a cat and call it a cake. Doomed to fail. Do not try this at home. Just bake a normal Lemon Meringue cake/pie/whatever.

This is one of the ugliest cakes I have ever made but it tasted great! Hopefully by tomorrow I have forgotten that I even published these pictures. 

And I am so happy we just ate this cake and could not keep it, too.

Lemon Meringue Cat

Base

150 ml plain flour

100g cold butter, cut in small pieces

50 ml granulated sugar

1 egg yolk

1. Preheat the oven to 175 C / 350 F and grease a Ø 23 springform pan.

2. Mix all ingredients together and spred in the bottom of the pan.

3. Bake the base in the oven for about 20 minutes.

Filling

2  tbsp cornflour

125 ml caster sugar

grated zest of 2 lemons

125ml fresh lemon juice 

juice 1 small orange

50 g butter, cut into pieces

4 egg yolks 

1. Mix all ingredients together in a pan and cook over medium heat until thick and smooth.

2. Put aside to cool a little while making the meringue.

White Meringue

3 egg whites

100 ml icing sugar

1. Start beating the egg whites and add icing sugar gradually until thick and firm.

Black Meringue

1 egg white

25 ml icing sugar

1 tsp black food colouring

1. Start beating the egg whites together with the black food colouring and add icing sugar gradually until thick and firm.

To Compile

1. Pour lemon curd over the base.

2. Spread white meringue on top of the lemon curd.

3. Using a piping bag, pipe the black meringue over the white to draw a cat face.

4. Bake in the oven for about 15 minutes until slightly coloured.

5. Let the cake set in the pan for at least half an hour before removing it - otherwise it will collapse like mine did...