Chocolate Pavlova cake with ricotta and cherry in liqueur

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   Separate the whites from the yolks. We try not to let a drop of yolk get into the proteins, otherwise they will be badly whipped, since they do not like fats. By the same token, the mixer bowl and the whisk must be clean. We'll only need proteins. And from the yolks you can cook, for example, buns "chamomile"(I'll post the recipe later) or puff pastry.

2. Step 2:

   

   Adding a pinch of salt, beat the whites in a mixer first at low speed, then at medium speed.

3. Step 3:

   

   When a strong foam appears, after 2-3 minutes, we make the maximum speed and start adding sugar to 1 tablespoon, continuing to beat the proteins.

4. Step 4:

   

   Sift the cocoa and add it and cinnamon to the whipping proteins.

5. Step 5:

   

   And whisk until the mixture is shiny.

6. Step 6:

   

   On the parchment we will circle a shape with a diameter of 20 cm, make two circles. And we'll put meringue on them. With the asterisk nozzle, we will suck off 10 pieces of meringue for decoration. Bake at 120 degrees for 1 hour, leaving the oven door ajar for the first 10 minutes, let it cool in the oven for another hour.

7. Step 7:

   

   Put the cherries in a saucepan (you can use frozen cherries, after defrosting it), add liquor and water, bring to a boil and remove from heat.Let it cool and soak in the liquor, then strain it through a colander.

9. Step 8:

   

   Preparing the cream. Whisk cream cheese with powdered sugar.

10. Step 9:

    

    Whisk fat 33% cream.To make them whisk better, put them in the freezer for 10 minutes, and the dishes and the whisk in the refrigerator.

11. Step 10:

    

    Melt the chocolate in a water bath or in the microwave.Let's cool it down to a barely warm state. Grind the almonds in a blender.

12. Step 11:

    

    Add melted chocolate, ground almonds to the cream cheese and mix the whipped cream in two steps.

13. Step 12:

    

    Assemble the cake.It is better to do this before serving. The bottom meringue cake will be layered with cream and put part of the cherry, then we put the second meringue cake, we also lubricate it with cream.

14. Step 13:

    

    On the top layer of the cream, we put small curly meringues on the edges and cherries in the middle.

15. Step 14:

    

    You can sprinkle the cherries with powdered sugar and serve to the table!