Cake "chocolate holiday"

Surprise your guests at the holiday by preparing such a chocolate cake! It requires a lot of patience and time, but the taste will exceed all expectations!

Ingredients

• For meringue:
• Egg whites - 4 pcs.
• Sugar or powdered sugar - 1 cup
• Vanilla - to taste
• Lemon juice - 2-3 drops
• Salt - a pinch
• For the crust:
• Egg yolks - 6 pcs.
• Kefir - 1 glass
• Sugar - 1 cup
• Cocoa powder - 3 tbsp. l.
• Soda - 1 tsp
• Flour - 2 cups
• For cream:
• Butter - 200 g
• Boiled condensed milk - 1 can
• For decoration:
• Walnuts - to taste
• Chocolate - 100 g

Directions

1. Beat the chilled proteins with salt until a stable foam. Add sugar and lemon. juice. Beat until you get a shiny, thick mass. If you poke it with a knife, noticeable marks will remain. Put this mass with a pastry bag on a baking sheet lined with paper in the form of mounds.
2. Dry the meringue at 100-50* for at least 3 hours. It should be dry and crispy. Store it in a plastic bag out of air.
3. For the dough, beat the yolks with sugar, pour in the kefir, mix. Add cocoa, soda, flour. Mix until a homogeneous dough. Pour it into a mold, bake at 230 * for about 25 minutes.
4. For the cream, beat the butter until white. Add boiled condensed milk and mix until smooth.
5. Cool the baked cake, remove from the mold and cut horizontally into two cakes. It is fluffy and porous inside.
6. To assemble the cake, grease the cake with cream, lay out the meringue. Fill in the gaps with pieces of broken bezel. Leave a few meringues for the top layer. Apply cream on the meringue too. Cover with second layer. Top with cream too and lay out the meringue. Melt the chocolate, put it in a paper cornet and decorate the cake with stripes. Serve immediately or the meringue will get soggy.