Tasty Cake "Count ruins"

Meringue lovers will love the Count Ruins cake.

Ingredients

• For the biscuit:
• Egg - 4-5 pcs.
• Sugar - 1 cup
• Flour - 1 cup
• Soda (optional) - 0.5 tsp
• or baking powder - 1 tsp.
• For cream:
• Milk - 1 glass
• Egg - 1 pc.
• Flour - 1 tbsp. l.
• Sugar - 0.5 cups
• Butter - 100 g
• Vanilla - to taste
• For meringue:
• Protein - 4 pcs.
• Sugar - 1 cup
• Vanilla - to taste
• For glaze:
• Chocolate
• Milk - 3 tbsp. l.
• Vegetable oil - 1 tbsp. l.

Directions

1. Beat eggs and sugar well.
2. Add flour and soda (baking powder). Whisk.
3. You can make a biscuit without soda, but then beat the eggs with sugar for a longer time until a dense foam (or better, separate the proteins and yolks), and then gently mix in the flour without whipping the dough.
4. Grease the mold and pour the dough into it.
5. Bake in an oven preheated to 180 degrees until cooked (until golden brown).
6. When a sponge cake is baked (especially without baking powder), the oven door should never be opened for the first 20 minutes. And if the glass of the oven is transparent, then it is better not to open it at all until the biscuit is ready.
7. Cool down.
8. Cut into two slices.
9. Leave the bottom cake and cut the top into pieces.
10. Cooking cream. Place milk, egg, flour and sugar in a saucepan.
11. Cook until thickened.
12. When it cools down, add 100 g of butter and vanillin. Mix well.
13. Meringue is best prepared in advance.
14. Mix protein, sugar and vanilla. Beat in a water bath for 5-7 minutes.
15. Put the meringue with a pastry bag on a baking sheet. I got 2 of these pans.
16. Dry in the oven at 100-110 degrees for 1 hour. And leave in the switched off oven for another 1 hour.
17. Ready. We get it.
18. Assembling the cake "Earl ruins".
19. Spread the cake with cream.
20. Put the meringue in a circle.
21. Lubricate the following meringues from below with cream and lay them on top of the first meringue (between them).
22. Melt a piece of chocolate, 3 table. spoons of milk and a piece of butter in a water bath.
23. Put the sliced ​​biscuits in there. Let's mix.
24. So that almost all the pieces are in chocolate.
25. Put this mass in the center of the cake.
26. Lay the rest of the meringue on top, not forgetting to grease their bottom with cream.
27. Melt a piece of chocolate with 1 tbsp. l. vegetable oil in a water bath. And pour this icing on the cake.
28. Ready! Put the cake "Earl ruins" in the refrigerator to harden.