French Meringue Layer Cake

Meringue’s fragile, brittle, and instant melt-in-the-mouth texture makes up for its lack of flavor. Meringue is never served alone but is juxtaposed with cakes, frostings, ice cream, or other mixtures to provide a bit of crunch. French meringue is made by beating sugar with egg whites until the mixture is very stiff. On a humid day, confectioners’ sugar is folded into the mixture to keep it crunchy once baked. Here we make meringue disks for a cake.

Circles of crisp meringue make wo