Name: Tiny Meringues
Yield: Makes 50 mini meringues, or 25 meringue sandwiches
Ingredients: 1 tsp vanilla extract; cocoa powder, to dust; 25-30 crystallised violets; 85 g icing sugar; large nylon piping bag (optional); medium star nozzle (optional); 150 ml double cream; 3 egg whites, at room temperature; 85 g white caster sugar; pinch of salt

Preparation info

Makes
50
mini meringues

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Bake and Decorate

By Fiona Cairns

Published 2011

About

These dinky little meringues remind me of those my mother made. At any family celebration they were piled high, clouds of crispy white billows, oozing with cream, dusted with cocoa and finished with a crystallised violet. To me they were the most sublime dessert in the world.

Ingredients

3 egg whites, at room temperature
pinch of salt
85 g white caster sugar<

Method

Preheat the oven to 140°C/fan 130°C/275°F/gas mark 1 and line 2 baking sheets with baking parchment.

Place the egg whites and salt in the bowl of an electric mixer, or use a handheld whisk and a large ceramic bowl. Whisk on a low speed, then increase the speed un

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