Recipes: Meringues
These really are some of the best meringues you will find, and contain only fresh egg white, sugar and cornstarch.
Chocolate Cream Meringues
Ingredients for 4 servings
8 Meringues 6.5cm diameter
300ml Cream
45g Icing Sugar
4 Maraschino cherries
Dark Chocolate Flakes
Preparation
- Whisk the icing sugar and cream together until it becomes firm, to make Chantilly Cream
- Using a piping bag, place a rosette of Chantilly Cream on top of four of the meringues and place another meringue on top.
- Cover the "double meringues" with Chantilly Cream and roll them carefully in the dark chocolate flakes so the sides are covered in chocolate.
- Decorate the top of each Chocolate Cream Meringue with a rosette of Chantilly Cream and a Maraschino cherry.
Meringues with strawberries, and cream sharpened with mint and vodka
Ingredients for 20 pieces
40 round meringues, 6.5 cm diam.
500 ml cream
2 gelatine leaves
1 sachet vanilla sugar
50 ml lemon juice
50 ml vodka
500gr strawberries
approx 2 tblsp finely chopped mint
20 mint leaves
Preparation
- Reheat the vodka with the lemon juice.
- Soak the gelatine leaves in cold water, squeeze them, and leave them to dissolve in the vodka.
- Beat the cream with the vanilla sugar until thickened but not completely firm, and mix with the gelatine and the finely chopped mint. Put the mixture in an icing bag.
- Slice the strawberries.
- Pipe a small blob of cream on a meringue, decorate with strawberry slices, and place another meringue on top.
- Pipe some cream on the second meringue and garnish with a strawberry slice and a mint leaf.

