Lavender Cream Meringues

Name: Lavender Cream Meringues
Yield: Makes 16
Ingredients: 3-4 fresh unsprayed lavender stems; 150 ml double cream; 2 large free-range egg whites; 100 g caster sugar; ½ tablespoon icing sugar

Preparation info

Makes
16

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

What to Eat Now (Spring & Summer)

By Valentine Warner

Published 2009

About

These are proper little feather-light confections that I think should be called ‘fairy tits’.

Ingredients

3-4 fresh unsprayed lavender stems
2 large free-range egg whites
100 g

Cake
Gluten-free
Vegetarian

Method

Preheat the oven to 130°C/250°F/Gas ½. Line a large baking sheet with baking paper. Strip the lavender from its stems straight into a mortar. Bash determinedly with the pestle for a minute or 2 to break the flowers and release their fragrance.

Put the egg whites in a large, cle