Prepare the necessary ingredients for the pie. Today I propose to make the cake and black and red currants at the same time. I wanted to bring pleasure to loved ones and to combine these flavors in one cake. It to combine and not to mix. Details below...

Knead the dough. To do this, melt the butter and allow it to cool slightly. In a bowl put sour cream, pour melted butter. Mix well. Pour the sifted flour (plus baking powder and salt) and knead a soft dough. The finished dough wrap in cling film and refrigerate for half an hour.

While the dough reach in refrigerator, prepare the baking dish. It is desirable to use a split mold, zastelil her paper. Or to foresee a "mechanism" recess finished cake. I usually cut out a circle of paper that matches the diameter of the mold, leaving four strips, which then will be convenient to take the finished pie. (Shape diameter - 26 cm)

Chilled the dough with your hands evenly distributed on the form, forming the sides. For this cake border height is not significant, as the meringue holds its shape and does not leak, only slightly increases in volume during baking. (You can do without the bumpers, if you do not very important to the final look of the cake.) Pinned the dough with a fork.

Cover the dough on top of baking paper and pour a small layer of peas (or etc) as cargo. He will not let dough rise. Put the tart base with a load in a hot oven (180 deg.) and bake for about 15 minutes. Then remove paper and peas, and dopagem the cake until done - light Golden brown. (Approximately 5-10 minutes). Again, if you are not so fundamental appearance and the cut of the pie, you can bake and without a load. You can slightly reduce the proportions in the test, if you want the crust thinner. And... If you bake a cake in the cold season, pay attention to the peas (the cargo) was warm, at room temperature, not cold. Otherwise the baking time bottom is considerably lengthened, and the bumpers during this time, you can start to burn.

While baked cake, prepare the filling. Currants (can use frozen - no need to defrost) roll in cornstarch. I have black currants fresh red - and- frozen.

Prepare the meringue. Whites with a small pinch of salt begin beat with a mixer at high speeds. Once formed large foam, the speed gradually increasing. When the whites get whipped in a lush foam, gradually we pour small cane sugar TM Mistral, mixed with 2. h tablespoons of starch. Whisk until stable peaks.

Get ready cake from the oven, the oven temperature immediately decreases to 150 deg.! Lightly sprinkle the cake with starch (1 tbsp) and spread a third of currants. Since this time, I decided to make a cake "2 in 1", so that each piece could be first to feel the taste of the pie, red currants, and then with black, then apply the following tactics: at the center of the cake put red currants, and the circumference is black.

Divide meringue in half. Mix gently (separately) with the remaining currants and spread on the center of the meringue with red, and the circumference of the meringue with black currants. Align ( you can spoon "to grub up" the pattern) and put into the oven for 40-60 minutes. The temperature of the oven 150 deg.! (If you baked a cake roll, then spread the meringue on the removal of 1-2 cm from the side of the form, in order to avoid burning.) A little more patience when on the surface of the meringue forms a crisp meringue crust. Can pie to get in half an hour. He, too, will be very tasty! But if you give to form a good crust, the pie will turn out just fabulous taste sensations! Crust melting meringue... And the shortbread crust takes on a nutty taste... Decide on your own!

And this step can be safely skipped. But if you want to cook the pie as a replacement for cake (and he is able to give some cakes and odds) while pie is in oven, whisk one protein with 50 grams of cane sugar. Fill a pastry bag. For a few minutes to get the cake out of the oven and quickly decorate it as you wish. This time I did it in the form of flowers, and the middle of them covered with crystals of sugar TM Mistral. And again put in the oven to topcats.

The finished cake remove from the oven. And while it cools, take a look at the handsome man. It is unlikely you will be able to do it as soon as it close I'll try.)))