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A miserable cake is a type of almond
A miserable cake is a type of almond sponge cake
Sponge cake is a light cake made with egg whites, flour and sugar, sometimes leavened with baking powder. Some sponge cakes do not contain egg yolks, like angel food cake, but most of them do. Sponge cakes, leavened with beaten eggs, originated ...
that is a traditional Belgian
Belgian may refer to:
* Something of, or related to, Belgium
* Belgians, people from Belgium or of Belgian descent
* Languages of Belgium, languages spoken in Belgium, such as Dutch, French, and German
*Ancient Belgian language, an extinct language ...
recipe. The cake is filled with pudding
Pudding is a type of food. It can be either a dessert or a savoury (salty or spicy) dish served as part of the main meal.
In the United States, ''pudding'' means a sweet, milk-based dessert similar in consistency to egg-based custards, in ...
made by whisking hot sugar syrup
Inverted sugar syrup, also called invert syrup, invert sugar, simple syrup, sugar syrup, sugar water, bar syrup, syrup USP, or sucrose inversion, is a syrup mixture of the monosaccharides glucose and fructose, that is made by hydrolytic ...
into an egg white
Egg white is the clear liquid (also called the albumen or the glair/glaire) contained within an egg. In chickens it is formed from the layers of secretions of the anterior section of the hen's oviduct during the passage of the egg. It forms arou ...
foam, known as a ''pâte à bombe
The pâte à bombe is a base used in pastry from pasteurized eggs to be used in cold preparations (tiramisu, mousse, semifreddo). It consists of a whipping of egg yolks to which a syrup
In cooking, a syrup (less commonly sirup; from ar, � ...
''. The cake base is made from almonds, known as a biscuit joconde.
See also
*List of cakes
The following is a list of types of dessert cakes by country of origin and distinctive ingredients. The majority of the cakes contain some kind of flour, egg, and sugar. Cake is often served as a celebratory dish on ceremonial occasions such as we ...
* Foam cake
Foam cakes are cakes with very little (if any) fatty material such as butter, oil or shortening.
They are leavened primarily by the air that is beaten into the egg whites that they contain. They differ from butter cakes, which contain shortening, ...
References
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