Recipe review - Strawberry meringue cake (KIS) page 147

[Bedlam]

Looks wonderful cookie, another for the ever growing list.

[Cornish Cream]

Looks gorgeous Cookie

[JulieO]

Looks gorgeous Cookie. 

[Itsnotartitsdinner]

Yum!

[Kimmyh]

Lovely cookie. Did you reduce the sugar?

[cookie1]

Yes I did. By about 30g I think.  It was just right for us.

[Lellyj]

I made this over Christmas using a 22 cm springform pan.  There was enough base mix and filling for this size. I would like to invest in a smaller size pan because I like the look of the cake in the book, the meringue is "high" which looks attractive.  Following advice from this thread, I used 200g of sugar and I served it with the berry lime coulis which is zingy with lime juice, so not too sweet. It was convenient to have the icecream cake in the freezer ready to serve, and leftovers kept well wrapped in glad wrap. It was really delicious and I will definitely make again, although my cake was spoiled a little by the face that I did not use "Walkers" shortbread for the base.  I had a tin of Christmas biscuits and used those, but they clearly do not have the texture of Walkers and although the base was tasty it was very hard which made the cake difficult to eat.  Will use Walkers as advised in future.  All in all this is a delicious, easy dessert.

[cookie1]

I'm just beginning to make this for lunch on Thursday. It should be nice and cooling. I plan to serve it with Berry Lime Coulis.

[Lellyj]

I hope you enjoyed it Cookie.

[cookie1]

A bit late in replying, but yes we did. There was leftovers too.

[troupie]

I also made this and although we enjoyed it, I found the base was a bit hard and I did use the Walkers biscuits; however, the rest was yummy.

[judydawn]

I remember reading somewhere that if you press too firmly on a biscuit base, it will be too hard to cut troupie.  Do you think this was the problem?

[troupie]

Judy I think that could have been the problem; will make it again one day and see.

[cookie1]

Mine is always hard too. I think it is the amount of butter to biscuits.

[jeninwa]

Mine was hard too, just about needed an axe to cut it. Lol I thought it was the amount of butter also, but next time  I won't press it in to firmly and see if that helps, the filing it delish.