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  Banana Stuffed Meringue Cake

  

For the meringue:

6 egg whites

1¼ cups caster sugar or 250 g

1½ cups ground almonds

2 tablespoons corn flour

For the banana stuffing:

1 cup butter or 200 g, softened

1 teaspoon vanilla powder

1 tin NESTLÉ® Sweetened Condensed Milkor 397 g

1 large banana or 200 g, mashed

1 cup toasted almonds or 100 g, sliced

Preparation

Beat egg whites until stiff. Add ¼ cup of sugar and continue beating for 1 ½ minutes. Combine the remaining sugar, ground almond and corn flour. Carefully fold the dry mixture in the egg whites mixture in 3 batches.

Spoon the meringue mixture into a piping bag fitted with round nozzle and pipe 3 spirals of 20cm each on baking paper. Bake in a 120°C preheated oven for 40-50 minutes. Transfer them to a rack to cool.

Place butter and vanilla powder in an electric beater and beat ingredients on medium speed. Slowly add theNESTLÉ® Sweetened Condensed Milkwhile beating until well combined. Fold mashed banana in the butter mixture.

Spread about one quarter of the butter cream on a meringue layer . Add a second meringue layer and spread butter cream on it, then top with the remaining meringue layer.

Spread the remaining butter mixture over the top and sides. Sprinkle icing sugar on the surface and press toasted almonds around the edges of the cake.