Help with creating a wheel cake

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And your "failed" meringue sounds like a great recovery. Did you prop open the oven while baking the meringue? and also bake at low temperature to help it dry out.

Recipe did not instruct to dry-bake the meringue as suggested above. The meringue cake actually has ground hazelnut along with egg whites and sugar which I thought would make a lovely combination.

It's been several years, but have made meringue cookies, and other cakes with only egg whites which give it a nice, lighter and crunchy texture etc. and haven't done the dry-bake thing.