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Lemon Foam Torte

Courses: Dessert
Serves: 8 people

Recipe Ingredients

1   Biscuit-layer (with a rim)
100   Baking chocolate
6   Egg whites
250   Sugar
2   Lemons, juice of
2 tablespoons 30mlLemon zest - ground
8   White gelatin sheets
  (3 solidify 1 cup of liquid)
  Candied lemon slices

Recipe Instructions

Melt half of the chocolate in a double-boiler (bain marie) and paint it on the biscuit layer.

Beat egg-whites mixed with sugar until very stiff.

Stir lemon juice, zest and dissolved gelatin carefully into the foam..

Put the foam onto the layer in the shape of half a ball.

Cool the torte in the refrigerator for 2 hours.

Melt the rest of the chocolate and use it together with the candied slices to decorate the torte.

Source:
Cooking Light - March 1998

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