Making Christmas Meringues...

 

hi there!

 

 

 

today we celebrated the year of 'mainly music'

with many mums & bubs & toddlers...

it was a happy and excited bunch

who came to sing and munch!

 

yesterday in preparation

my brainwave was to make some christmassy meringues...

i thought they may just pass for summery snowballs.

 

 

 

 

wanting to jazz them up a little

i wanted to top them with some colour...

but not 100's & 1000's

or those silver balls..they can be a bit hard to bite into.

 

 

vaguely remembering someone's hint somewhere

i thought i'd make my own coloured sugar to sprinkle on them...

 

 

 

 

it's easy peasy...

take 2 or 3 tablespoons of sugar..ordinary white stuff.

place in a largish container with a lid that is sealable.

place one or two drops...max. three or four...of food colouring onto the sugar.

 

shake

shake

shake

 

there you have it ...coloured sugar.

 

sprinkle on whatever you like...just like you would sugar.

it just adds pizazz!

 

 

now for the meringues...

 

 

 

 

i'm recommending you just find your own basic meringue mixture

'cos i thought i'd be smart and use

one and a half times the mixture...

which was basically

4 egg whites & 3/4 cup sugar & 1/2 teaspoon vanilla essence.

 

instead i used 6 eggs.

i found out later why the mixture isn't that big originally...

'cos you have to fit all your meringues in the oven in one go

'cos they take 1 and a 1/2 hours {on 120 celsius} to cook.

by then ..if you had mixture left to cook...

it would be flat..

meringues are mainly air, lots and lots of air.

 



{christmas trees???}

 

 meringues are fun food.

 

fun to make.

 

fun to cook

 

&

 

most of all

 

fun to eat!

 

there were a few leftover.

i may try making eton mess for desert...

if they last 'til nightfall.

 

 

a meringue marengo...that would be fun too...haha!

 

 

naturally Carol xox