Magic Meringue Mushrooms

Just like Scandinavians, I love liquorice, especially the salty kind. I played around with liquorice meringue recipes, melting liquorice and using essence of liquorice, but all I got was ugly brown meringues. Eventually I figured out the best method is to get some hard liquorice candy and grate it on to the meringue tops. The combination of chocolate and liquorice with the feather-light meringues works very well. Get some disposable piping bags as you are going to be doing a great deal of p