Chestnut Ice-Cream Meringue Cake

Three layers of meringue, sandwiched with and topped by chestnut ice cream, covered with grated chocolate, then frozen: it sounds kind of fancy, doesn’t it? Let me tell you that it’s one of the easiest recipes in the book. The contrast of textures is wonderful because for some reason which I can’t quite fathom meringue doesn’t freeze. That’s to say, even straight out of the freezer it tastes as if it’s at room temperature, with its normal texture. This, then, is a useful template for any so