Treasure Island for little pirates

Ingredients for 1 servings:

• 250 g powdered sugar
• 8 egg whites
• 1 tube(s) food coloring, blue
• 200 g sugar
• 1 packet of vanilla sugar
• 4 eggs
• 150 g flour
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 5 bananas
• 250 ml milk
• 2 cups of cream
• 1 packet of pudding powder (vanilla)
• 150 g ground almonds

Instructions

Working time approx. 1 hour; Rest time approx. 3 hours; Total time approx. 4 hours

an ideal birthday cake

The Sea: Beat the egg whites until stiff. Slowly add the powdered sugar. Place a cake ring on a (deep) baking sheet and spread the meringue batter around it. Bake for about 4 hours at 110°C in a slightly open oven. Then let it cool. Brush the cooled meringue batter with blue food coloring. If you like, you can also color the batter completely before baking (although some colors won’t stay blue this way). Carefully loosen the cake ring and remove it. The Island: Separate the eggs. Beat the egg whites until stiff. Then beat the egg yolks with 4 tablespoons of water until frothy. Gradually add the sugar and vanilla sugar, then gradually add the flour and baking powder. Carefully fold in the egg whites and quickly pour into a springform pan (the same size as the cake ring used) and bake at 170°C fan-assisted oven for about 20-25 minutes. Once cooled, scoop out a 1-2 cm hole in the base with a spoon, crumble the crumbs in a bowl and set aside. For the filling: Make the vanilla pudding with milk and let it cool. Whip the cream until stiff. Mash 1 banana and stir everything into the cooled pudding. Line the island with halved bananas and pile up the pudding cream. Add the crumbs again and press down lightly. Sprinkle the almonds along the edge closest to the water. Then decorate the island. For the palm tree, you could use a skewer with mini marshmallows stuck upside down, and for the leaves, cut out of moss gum. A boat or something similar would also be chic.