Meringues

[winter]

For some reason, I've always regarded meringues as something fiendishly difficult; consequently, I rarely bought them and hunted without much success for something that was not 90% sugar.

We had 4 egg whites left over from other baking. The whole thing took 15 minutes, and half of that was sifting the caster sugar because I'm an obsessive perfectionist sometimes.

*crunch*

:D

Comments

[b-a-n-s-h-e-e.livejournal.com]

Awesome! You can also stack them on top each other to form a pyramid, spreading icing of your choice over each layer to cement them and then sprinkling melted chocolate on top. http://www.good-cook.ru/tort/tort_028.shtml
This way you end up with a cake that we Russians call "Grafskie razvaliny" - loosely translated as "The Ruins of a Count's Castle" (heh, the best cake for TdV fans :) )

[winter]

*snickers* Gonna make that next time :D Right now, looking for ways to salvage half-burned ones, because the first quite nice batch came out after 40 minutes in the oven as per recipe, and the second ended up burned on the bottom in less than 30 minutes. My oven is WEIRD.

[b-a-n-s-h-e-e.livejournal.com]

Hmmm... was teh temperature the same the second time, and did you by any chance and to much sugar? If they are burned on the bottom, you may use simple grater, like cheese grater, on them to scratch off the nasty charcoal bits :)

[winter]

Same mix, same settings, but my oven is weird. Fortunately I managed to scrape off the burnt stuff, and since I hid the good batch, the parents polished off the burnt one ;)