Swiss Meringues

Posted On May 24, 2010

Meringues are named after the Swiss village Meiringen and were invented by an Italian chef Gasparini (Wikipedia). It is a crispy airy sweet dish and children would simply love it. Â In my home, as soon as Meringues was ready, it got over in no time. Planning to make the second batch soon with different colors and shapes.

Ingredients:

1. Eggs – 2, only the whites ( use the yellow for other recipes)
2. Sugar – 100 gms
3. Corn starch – 2 tbs
4. Vanilla Essence – few drops
5. Sugar sprinkles – 2 tbs

Method:

1. Add the egg whites to a bowl and whisk it using  electric whisker. Gradually add the sugar and continue whisking for till the mixture becomes a frothy and airy dough.

2. Â Add vanilla essence. Corn starch should be included if the dough is a little loose. The right consistency would be if you take it in a spoon the dough shouldn’t fall itself until you drop it.

3. Preheat the oven to 100 c and spoon the dough into the tray. I used a piping bag to pipe the dough to tray. Sprinkle sugar colors on top.

4. Bake it for 40 minutes.

Tip:

1. Â Mix with food colors to make different colors. Use a piping bag to make some beautiful shapes.

2. Use the egg yellow to make some cookies.