Meringue
S’Mores Cupcakes
It’s National Cupcake Week this week (14-20 Sept) so it surely deserves a cupcake recipe on the blog! And we’re not just celebrating with a recipe, I’ve a fab giveaway lined up for you today too in partnership with Ulster Weavers and you can be in with a chance of bagging some beautiful goodies for your kitchen – watch out for my post coming later today!
Sticky Toffee Baked Alaska
Just dropping in with a lovely Bank Holiday Weekend pudding idea for you – Sticky Toffee Baked Alaska, a retro pud that’s sure to please!
Part of my collection of recipes for Bake with Stork you’ll find step by step pics and all the instructions just here – Sticky Toffee Baked Alaska.
Strawberry Meringue Slices
The summer hols have me well and truly in a sunshine baking mood! These slices are not for the faint hearted – packing a truly sweet treat – shortbread, strawberry meringue and white chocolate!
Ingredients:
Shortbread Base
125g butter, softened
50g caster sugar
175g plain flour
4 tablespoons of strawberry jam
50g meringues
100g white chocolate
1 small packet of Fruit Bowl strawberry fruit flakes (optional)
Day 12 – Snowmen Macarons
Just a little delicious Christmas idea from me today! Snowmen Macarons!
Ingredients:
1 x qty Macaron mixture recipe here
Milk Chocolate Ganache
80ml double cream
1 tbsp butter
300g milk chocolate chopped
To decorate:
Thin Christmas ribbon
Cake pop sticks
Orange edible icing pen or orange petal dust mixed with a little clear alcohol
Makes: 16 snowmen
Mix up the Macaron mixture following the steps just here, very simply flavour the mixture at the meringue stage with a teaspoon of vanilla extract.
Day 10 – Chocolate Meringue Roulade
Last years Toffee Pecan Roulade went down an absolute storm so I thought this year I’d share a chocolate version. They’re so brilliant because they’re freezable! Make it now and stash it in the freezer for a Christmas dessert.
Ingredients:
Roulade
5 egg whites, large
2 tsp cornflour
225g caster sugar
2 tbsps cocoa powder
Chocolate Caramel Filling
1 x 315g tin of condensed milk
90g soft brown sugar
90g butter
3 tbsps cocoa powder
Cream
300ml double cream
3 tbsps icing sugar
50g chocolate curls
Popping candy (optional)
Cocoa powder to dust
Lemon Meringue Pie
Let’s bake a lemon meringue pie – is there anything better?
Makes: 1 x Deep dish 8″ Pie
Ingredients:
Pastry
225g plain flour
100g butter, cold diced
Day 11 – Meringue Mince Pies
Meringue topped Mince Pies for Day 11
This idea came from Shirley via facebook and I’m so pleased it did – a great twist on the traditional mince pie!
Ingredients:
1 x batch of Mince Pie Pastry – recipe here
Mincemeat
2 egg whites, large
115g caster sugar
Silver ball sprinkles (optional)
Day 9 – Toffee Pecan Roulade
Who loves a Toffee Pecan Meringue Roulade at Christmas?
This is the perfect dessert to make ahead and store in the freezer. Just right for whipping out, defrosting and serving up in a flash.
Ingredients:
5 egg whites, large
2 tsps cornflour
225g light muscovado sugar
40g pecans, chopped
250ml double cream
Using up Egg Whites
So this is the other half to my Using up Egg Yolks post – what to do with a random number of egg whites. Well for me it’s a quick batch of meringues of course!
Here’s my handy table for a batch of meringues with any random number of egg whites:-
| Whites | Sugar (grams) |
| 1 | 55 |
| 2 | 110 |
| 3 | 165 |
| 4 | 220 |
| 5 | 275 |
| 6 | 330 |
| 7 | 385 |
| 8 | 440 |
| 9 | 495 |
| 10 | 550 |
And here’s the method…
