Meringue and Cream Layer Cake with Fruit

Tort bezowy—meringue cake—is a kind of layered pavlova. But while pavlova made its global debut in Australia, the country for which it is best known, in the 1920s, meringue cakes had already been circulating in Germany, the Austro-Hungarian empire, and Poland for at least several decades. And while meringue cakes are not exclusive to Polish baking, tort bezowy is widespread in Polish coffee shops and bakeries to the point of seeming so. The base is simple: thick rounds of crunchy-outside-ch