100 Nougat (White Chocolate, Pistachio and Cranberry Nougat)

You are going to learn two important lessons if you take on the nougat challenge. The first you will learn is making a flavoured honey syrup to a particular temperature that has to be reached and must be exact. The second lesson is all about egg whites — how to whip them and then how to incorporate the hot syrup without it ending up being spun in the stems of the whisk. In short, nougat is a chewy meringue.

Nougat is one of those genius inventions that was first mentioned in Persian