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Glazed pineapple and coconut cake glazed with Italian meringue

Serves:

2020-11-21

Ingredients

For the cake

  • 100g butter substitute
  • 25g oil
  • 130ml eggs
  • 1 packet gluten-free Savioardi biscuits (Schar)
  • 150g flour
  • 70g desiccated coconut
  • 1 tsp baking poder
  • Zest of a lime
  • 40ml milk

For the soaking syrup

  • 300ml water
  • 200g sugar
  • few mint leaves
  • ½ lemon
  • 100ml Malibu

For the Italian meringue

  • 100g egg whites
  • 200g sugar

You will also need

  • ½ tin pineapple cubes, diced
  • 100ml amaretto liqueur
  • 100g honey
  • pinch ground cloves
  • Zest of a lime
  • 50ml pineapple juice
  • Dried pineapple slices and icing sugar to decorate

Method

To make the pineapple compote, put the diced pineapple, lime zest and cloves into a pan and cook for 5 minutes to soften. Add in the pineapple juice and amaretto and allow to cool. Next prepare the soaking syrup by boiling together the water, sugar, mint leaves and lemon slices for 4-5 minutes. Remove off the heat and add in the Malibu. Put aside. To prepare the cake using an electric mixer fitted with a beater, beat together the butter substitute and sugar together till light. Beat in the eggs, slowly then add in the flour, baking powder, coconut, lime zest and milk and continue to mix for 3 minutes. Pipe into your desired greased forms and bake in the oven at 140°C for approximately 20-25 minutes. When the cake is cooked, soak using the prepared Malibu soaking syrup. Next prepare the Italian meringue. Heat the sugar with a tbsp. of water in a clean pan to 121°C until it forms a syrup. In a mixing bowl whip the egg whites to stiff peak and gently pour in the hot syrup whilst still mixing. To put the dessert together, spoon the cooked pineapple jam into the bottom of your glasses and place the soaked cake on top and pipe on the Italian meringue. Finish off by dusting with icing sugar and the dried pineapple slices.

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Kejk imxarrab bil-ġewż tal-indi u l-ananas glazed ma’ meringue Taljana

Ingredients

  • nofs ananas friska
  • 100g amaretto
  • 100g għasel
  • 8g imsiemer tal-qronfol mitħun
  • qoxra ta’ luminċell
  • 50ml meraq tal-ananas
  • gallettini savoiardi

Għall-kejk

  • 100g butir
  • 25g żejt
  • 130ml bajd
  • 150g dqiq
  • 70g ġewż tal-indi
  • 8g trab tal-ħami
  • qoxra tal-luminċell
  • 40g ħalib

Għall-ġulepp biex ixxarrab il-kejk

  • 300ml ilma
  • 200g zokkor
  • nagħniegħ
  • nofs lumija
  • 100ml likur tal-ġewż tal-indi

Meringue Taljana

  • 100g abjad tal-bajd
  • 200g zokkor

Għad-Dekorazzjoni

  • luminċell
  • ananas imnixxef

Method

Biex tagħmel il-compote tal-ananas, poġġi l-ananas imqattgħa, il-qoxra tal-luminċell u l-imsiemer tal-qronfol ġo ​​taġen u sajjar għal 5 minuti sakemm tirtab. Żid miegħu l-meraq tal-ananas u l-amaretto u ħallih jiksaħ. Imbagħad ipprepara l-ġulepp billi tgħalli flimkien l-ilma, iz-zokkor, il-weraq tan-nagħniegħ u l-flieli tal-lumi għal 4-5 minuti. Neħħi minn fuq in-nar u żid il-likur tal-ġewż tal-indi. Sabiex tipprepara l-kejk uża mixer elettriku mgħammar b’beater, ħabbat flimkien is-sostitut tal-butir u z-zokkor flimkien sakemm jingħaqdu. Ħabbat il-bajd bil-mod, imbagħad żid id-dqiq, it-trab tal-ħami, il-ġewż tal-Indi, il-qoxra tal-luminċell u l-ħalib u kompli ħawwad għal 3 minuti. Ippajpja fil-forom midluka bix-xaħam mixtieqa tiegħek u aħmi fil-forn f’temperatura ta’ 140°C għal madwar 20-25 minuta. Meta l-kejk ikun imsajjar, xarrab billi tuża l-ġulepp ippreparat. Imbagħad, ipprepara l-Meringue Taljana. Saħħan iz-zokkor ma’ mgħarfa ilma f’taġen nadif sa 121°C sakemm jifforma l-ġulepp. Fi skutella tat-taħlit, ħawwad l-abjad tal-bajd u ferra’ bil-mod il-ġulepp sħun waqt li tkun għadek tħallat. Biex tgħaqqad id-deżerta flimkien, poġġi l-ġamm tal-ananas imsajjar fil-qiegħ tat-tazzi tiegħek u poġġi l-kejk imxarrab fuq nett u ppajpja l-meringa Taljana fuq kollox. Spiċċa bi ftit zokkor fin u l-flieli tal-ananas imnixxef.

 

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