Cake "Count ruins" with prunes

Cake "Earl ruins" of meringue, with boiled condensed milk cream, with nuts and chocolate. Cake with prunes is not sugary-sweet, with a special taste and aroma.

Ingredients

• Egg whites - 10 pcs.
• Sugar - 400 g
• Boiled condensed milk - 1 can
• Butter - 300 g
• Lemons - 2 pcs.
• Walnuts - 300 g
• Prunes - 150 g
• Cognac - 100 g
• Chocolate black - 150 g

Directions

1. To make the cake "Earl ruins" with prunes, first prepare the meringue for the cake. To do this, carefully beat the whites with a mixer, gradually adding sugar to them. You should get a dense white mass.
2. Place the beaten egg whites in a pastry bag and squeeze out onto a baking sheet lined with parchment paper.
3. We bake (dry) the meringue in the oven at 100-110 degrees for about 1.5-2 hours.
4. Cut prunes into small pieces. Rub the lemon zest on a fine grater. Cut the walnuts into large pieces.
5. Pour chopped prunes with cognac.
6. Mix boiled condensed milk with softened butter until smooth.
7. We spread the meringue in layers, grease each layer with condensed milk cream and sprinkle the meringue layers with lemon zest, nuts and prunes. You can lay out the meringue in any order, randomly, but so that the cake looks like “ruins”.
8. Melt the chocolate (in a water bath). Pour the cake "Earl ruins" with chocolate.
9. Place the finished cake "Earl ruins" with prunes in the refrigerator for 2 hours for impregnation.