Italian meringue celebration cake | Home Beautiful

Ingredients

• 8 eggs
• ¾ cup (165g) caster sugar
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• 1¼ cups (185g) plain flour
• ½ cup (50g) Dutch cocoa powder, plus extra to dust
• A pinch of salt
• Mascarpone cream
• 2 tbsp instant coffee granules
• 1 tbsp boiling water
• 1kg mascarpone cream cheese
• 1¼ cups (310ml) single cream
• ¾ cup (120g) icing sugar, sifted
• Italian meringue
• ⅓ cup (80ml) water
• ½ tsp cream of tartar
• 2 cups (440g) caster sugar
• 150ml eggwhite (about 4 eggs)