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Patti's Cake

Three baked meringue discs stacked with a cocoa-and-instant-coffee Dream Whip filling, finished with chocolate curls.

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Cook
45 min

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Ingredients

  • 4 egg whites
  • 1/2 teaspoon cream of tartar
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 2 packages dream whip (plus the other ingredients called for on the package)
  • 3 tablespoons cocoa
  • 2 tablespoons instant coffee
  • 1/2 cup sugar

Directions

  1. Beat egg whites and cream of tartar until stiff and sugar is dissolved.
  2. Make 3, 6-inch circles on brown paper sacks. Bake at 275 degrees for 45 minutes.
  3. Shut off oven; leave set for 1 hour. Let cool in a breeze-free area.
  4. Prepare dream whip with the other ingredients called for on the package, along with the cocoa, instant coffee, and sugar. Whip until it looks like whipping cream.
  5. Put whipped cream on the egg white circles and stack.
  6. Top with chocolate curls or chips.

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