Chocolate & hazelnut meringue cake
Cakes
Sometimes you see a recipe, and you know you have to make it. Immediately. This was one of those recipes. No special occasion, no dinner guests, just an ordinary weeknight made extraordinary by this cake. To be fair, we did use this as an opportunity to break in our new mini-springform pan. An adorable little thing that makes a perfect size pastry for two. I found a 7" pan, which I determined, after doing some kind of crazy math I hadn't seen since 7th grade, required 2/3 of the original recipe. I think a 6" pan would be perfectly half (but that would have been too easy). Despite the complicated math required to scale the recipe just perfectly (2/3 of 4 egg whites? Really?) the resulting cake was just delightful. The perfect size for the two of us to finish off in a few days, before it had a chance to go stale. Sorry neighbors, this one was not meant to share! The cake itself was perfectly imperfect. My meringue was anything but pretty, and it crumbled to bits when cut. No matter, it
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