Special Consideration

Food Category

Key Ingredient

Cuisine Category

Filipino recipes

Brazo de Mercedes recipe

Created by Luzviminda Oliveros

1 comments

Enlarge text

Rating:

5/ 5 stars 5 Votes

Cuisine: Filipino
Prep Time: 20 min(s)
Cook Time: 30 min(s)
Serves 10

A favourite Filipino dessert, brazo de Mercedes means "arm of our Lady of Mercy". This Spanish-influenced dessert is rich, sweet and sticky, and is one of Luzviminda’s favourites because it’s spectacular to look at. Best eaten on the day of making.

Ingredients

8 eggs, separated
395g condensed milk
1 lime or lemon
2 tbsp unsalted butter
1 tsp vanilla essence
1 tsp cream of tartar
1/2 cup superfine sugar
Melted butter, for greasing
Toasted slivered almonds, for decorating

View conversion table

Preparation

Chilling time: 1 hour

Level of difficulty: medium

Preheat oven to 180°C.

Combine the yolks, condensed milk and rind in heat-proof bowl and place on top of a saucepan of just simmering water, making sure the base of the bowl does not touch the water. Whisk continuously for 10-15 minutes or until the mixture thickens enough to hold a trail on itself. Remove from heat, whisk in the butter and set aside.

Line a 26 x 32 cm swiss roll pan with foil and grease with the melted butter, making sure to get well into the corners.

Using an electric mixer, whisk the egg whites, vanilla essence and cream of tartar until soft peaks form. Gradually add the sugar and whisk until firm, glossy peaks form.

Spoon the mixture into the tray and spread evenly with a palette knife. Bake for 10-15 minutes or until the meringue starts to lightly brown on top.

Carefully remove the meringue from the tray by lifting the foil and turning it onto another piece of foil.

Spread the yolk mixture evenly over the meringue, leaving a 10-15 cm border from all the edges. Reserve a small amount of custard for decorating. With the help of the foil, roll the meringue base up and over itself, starting from one long side, in the same way as with a Swiss roll.

Remove the foil and top the roll with the remaining yolk mixture. Decorate with slivered almonds. Place in the fridge to chill before serving.

If you enjoyed this Brazo de Mercedes recipe then browse more Filipino recipes, dessert recipes, harvest recipes, cheese and dairy recipes, entertaining recipes, baking recipes and our most popular hainanese chicken rice recipe.

Filipino Restaurants

Displaying 2 of 2 Filipino Restaurants.

	Restaurant	Book Online	Suburb
1.	De Bortoli Winery and Restaurant		Dixons Creek
2.	Mabuhay		Darwin

View all Filipino restaurants | Start a new search

Comments (1)

27 Feb 2013 03:51 AEST

Michelle

Warren

Looking So Long....

I usually dislike when someone rates a recipe prior to testing it BUUTTT I have been looking for this dish for so long and am thrilled -- I can taste it NOW! My aunt's mother made this dish often when I was younger, but I failed to acqure the recipe then. Oh, how I cannot wait to recreate warm memories!

Agree(0 people agree)

Disagree(0 people disagree)

Comment on this recipe

PLEASE NOTE: All submitted comments become the property of SBS. We reserve the right to edit and/or amend submitted comments. HTML tags other than paragraph, line break, bold or italics will be removed from your comment.

Your Cookbook

Featured Food & Recipes

NEWLY ADDED
POPULAR
TOP RATED

Hot Tips

Kibbeh Nayeh

For this raw meat dish, make sure the mince is very fresh with a bright pink colour, and contains little to no fat. To achieve the very fine mince the meat should be put through a mincer two or three times.

Glossary

Felafel

Falafel is a fried ball or patty usually made with chickpeas, coriander and spices.