Fruit Meringue Brochettes

Fantastical lollipops, often in outrageously outré flavor combinations, are a signature at El Bulli, Ferran Andrià’s temple of experimental cuisine. Coming down to earth for his book dedicated to home cooking, Adrià devised these easy and entertaining meringue-coated fruit skewers. Chupa Chups Julio Verne, or Jules Verne lollipops, is what he calls them, no doubt because their look resembles something out of old-fashioned science fiction. Apple halves serve as a base so the skewers c