Christmas Paulova with KitchenAid

Beatriz, author of To Be Gourmet , brings us a delicious dessert to make this Christmas as sweet as possible! This pavlova with cream and cream cheese and red berries is a perfect idea to surprise your loved ones this coming holiday season.

There is always a before and after in the life of a pastry chef once the KitchenAid is installed in his kitchen. When it comes to dough, it stands out from any other robot, offering unparalleled results, but when it comes to meringue, it is quite a spectacle!

The best proof of this is the wonderful Pavlova cake that we can make. A cake that would otherwise be a bit complicated becomes a piece of cake!

A wonderful gift idea this Christmas!

KitchenAid Artisan food processor

Ingredients

• 3 eggs
• 250 g of sugar
• 1 tablespoon of cornstarch
• 1 teaspoon of lemon
• 1 teaspoon vinegar
• 250ml whipping cream
• 50gr of sugar for the cream
• 2 tablespoons cream cheese
• 2 pomegranates

Preparation

1. In the KitchenAid bowl, add the three egg whites and start mixing on speed 6. That is, at a fairly high speed. When the egg whites are opaque, start adding sugar little by little.
2. The process of adding the sugar will take about ten minutes, while we increase the speed to 8.
3. During this mixing phase, when the sugar is being added, the cornstarch, lemon and vinegar are added. All of this contributes to making our meringue sufficiently hard.
4. Place a sheet of greaseproof paper on the baking tray and mark the shape and size you want the pavlova to have on it.
5. Preheat the oven to 120º.
6. Using a pastry bag or a spatula, place the meringue in circles and in at least two layers so that you create a kind of deep meringue container.
7. We put the meringue in the oven and leave it for between an hour and a half or two hours. The thing is that the meringue has to be cooked on the outside and not so much on the inside.
8. We let this first part of the cake cool.
9. Beat the cream cheese with the sugar at speed 8 and when it is foamy, add the cream and continue beating until firm.
10. We place the cream on the baked meringue base and decorate with the pomegranate seeds.
11. More pomegranates can be offered in bowls on the table so that everyone can serve themselves as much fruit as they wish.

Christmas Pavlova

This cake also goes very well with strawberries and red berries. And if we want it to look silkier, we can use icing sugar instead of normal sugar. In exchange, we won't have those syrupy streaks that mark the grains when they dissolve and that, for me, make pretty shapes.

Beatrice.