Recipe | Eton mess cake

One of my go-to websites for recipes is BBC Good Food, each time i've tried one of these recipes i've always been impressed with how they've turned out. With being off work for 5 weeks, i've done a lot of baking recently - we had a couple of meringues left over from the other weekend so that was the basis of my search for this bake.

Serves: ~15

Ingredients:

175g butter

5tbsp double cream

1tsp vanilla essence

225g plain flour

100g ground almonds

1tsp baking powder

200g golden caster sugar

5 large eggs

400g strawberries (1/2 roughly chopped & 1/2 thinly sliced)

4 meringue nests (we only had 3, and it worked fine!)

Method:

• Grease and line a 30 x 20 cm deep traybake 
• Melt the butter, then stir in the cream and vanilla
• Mix the flour, almonds, baking powder and a pinch of salt - then set aside
• Whisk the caster sugar and eggs, until very think and foamy (~5 mins)
• Pour in the butter mix and whisk again then whisk in the dry mix
• Stir in the chopped strawberries
• Pour into tin and level
• Scatter the strawberries and meringue over the cake
• Bake for 40-45 mins until golden
  

This was definitely more of a pudding that a snack cake, with a bit of extra cream it was really nice. It wasn't my favourite bake and i'm not 100% sure i'd make it again but it was nice enough and a great way to use up some left over meringues!