One does Nigella

One's love affair with Nigella (one sided though it is) is well known.

Today one undertook a rather complex baking process to make this little number from Nigella's Forever Summer.

Now why this cake is a slightly sad story that began which such high expectations and ended with rancid meat...

Muz & Em were coming for lunch and one was determined to bring out the Le Creuset for its debut, Juniper berries were found, a couple of kilos of beef cheeks were purchased, and a menu was planned. That is planned until the beef cheeks came out to be prepared and marinaded, the first packet smelled a little funny, although they had been vacuum packed so it was possible this was just due to the vacuum process. Packet 2 smelled fine, but Packet 3 was RANCID. So much deflated, it was time to go back to the drawing board and that is when a rare fillet of beef was decided upon and a nice, light spring dessert in order.

SO out came the Kenwood to help some Tupperware and Nigella bowls and some inherited sponge cake tins. One had never made a meringue before, neither had one made a sponge. Both were in the realm of old-school baking that one hadn't attempted to conquer. So why not throw them into one delicious dessert of a Sunday?!












Now one doesn't claim to be an expert in meringue, but seriously, are these not perfectly formed peaks?
















and VOILA, here it is!!




and yes it was DELICIOUS