Postre chaja

Hello lovely followers, so last week was my grandma's 84th birthday! It was a very lovely day for my family because we are just so glad to still be able to celebrate with her. Any way the restaurant we went to was my first Uruguayan restaurant and I cant tell you right now it wont be my last! They grabbed my attention with their main entrees but really delivered when it came to deserts. The one I tried was a classic Uruguayan desert called Postre Chaja. 

"It was invented by the owner of a tearoom in a north Department, Paysandú.
That tearoom made up this lovely sweet desert and invited a friend to try it. The friend said it was a light and soft thing like a foam, just as the Chajá bird was! And from then on, it is called the Postre Chaja….the Chaja Desert!"

Cool right so here's the recipe:

Ingredients:
1 can of peaches in syrup
½ liter whipped cream
1 pound dry meringues
I round angel cake….
Recipe of the cake:
Mix 1 cup cake flour with
¼ cup of sugar
Whip until stiff:
8 eggs white, add ½ teaspoon of cream of tartar,
Add 1 cup of sugar, folding it softly
Add 1 teaspoon vanilla
Add to this mixture the flour, folding it slowly and gently
Put the mixture in an unbuttered baking dish. Take it to 340º oven for 40 minutes. Let it cool face down, taking care the cake doesn’t touch anything, and when cool put it into a dish.

Preparation of the Postre Chajá:
Cut the angel cake in two parts, put the lower part in a dish, open a can of peaches in syrup. With the syrup give moisture to the cake. Fill it with whipped cream and mix it with the peaches cut in small pieces. Put the top part of the cake, add to it some of the syrup too. Cover it with more whipped, top it with meringues, cracked into small pieces adding some more little pieces of peaches on top also. The main part of it is that this desert needs abundance of whipped cream and of meringues as Icing!
Let it rest in the refrigerator a couple of hours before serving it.

This is a little beyond me, but as always your welcome to try and leave a comment telling us how it went!