Welcome to How To Cook That I am Ann Reardon and on todays show I am going to show you
how to make these amazing meringue drops we've got lime, chocoalte, raspberry and passionfruit
and the fruit ones just burst with fruity flavour in your mouth.
They are really good.
And also you have the chance to WIN a golden ticket.
Which what that means is you and a friend can come with me for coffee and dessert or
if you don't drink coffee like me we will make it hot chocolate and dessert.
And at that meeting I will bring for you a signed Breville scraper mixer pro.
So if you would like to know how to enter that competition just watch to the end I'll
explain all of those details at the end of this video.
To make the basic meringue drops we need two egg whites, sugar, icing sugar or powdered
sugar.
And then I will show you what to add for each of the flavours in a minute.
Place your egg whites into the bowl of an electric mixer and mix on high speed until
they are fluffy and look like this, then add your sugar a little at a time.
All the recipe quantities that you need are on the howtocookthat.net website for you in
grams and ounces and cups.
Now you don't have to be too slow when you are adding the sugar just put it in in about
4 lots.
Then add in your icing sugar.
Continue to whisk on high speed until they have stiff peaks.
And that is your basic meringue recipe, easy.
Now to turn that into these yummy lime meringues.
You want the juice of one lime.
Pour the juice into a bowl and microwave it on high to evaporate off some of the water
in it.
Keep going until you are left with about a tablespoon of hot lime juice.
Add that into your meringue whip it up and if you want to you can add a couple of drops
of green colouring.
I've been experimenting with these quantities this week when I was developing this recipe
for you and one lime give a nice burst of flavour but two limes and it is a bit too
intense.
Place the mixture into a piping bag fitted with a star shaped tip and pipe in rows onto
non-stick baking paper.
Meringues don't really spread out when you bake them so you can pipe these fairly close
together.
To make raspberry flavoured meringues, these are my favourite.
You will need 1 cup of frozen raspberries and some water.
Add the raspberries to the saucepan with a couple of tablespoons of the water.
Place over high heat and stir it.
You'll see over time as well as the water evaporating off, you can see all the steam,
the fruit is also cooking a breaking down.
Once it looks like this it is ready.
Pour it into a fine sieve and using the back of a spoon push down so you get left with
the seeds in the top and this nice thick juice underneath.
we only want 1 1/2 tablespoons so if you've got more than that microwave it to get rid
of some more of the water.
Add the raspberry puree to the basic meringue mixture and then add some red colouring too
if you like.
Pipe that onto your baking tray, each batch makes about 1 1/2 trays of meringues.
For the chocolate flavoured ones what you need is some unsweetened cocoa powder and
dark chocolate.
Chop the chocolate finely, you want to make sure you don't have any big lumps of chocolate
left or they will get stuck in your piping bag tip when you are piping them.
Once you've made a batch of basic meringue add the chopped chocolate on top, then the
sifted cocoa powder.
Then using a spatula gently fold those together.
If you over stir this the mixture will go runny, so just want to fold it until you can't
see anymore cocoa powder.
Place it into your piping bag and pipe stars onto the baking tray.
To make passionfruit meringues take a tin of passionfruit and drain juice from the seeds.
Add one and a half tablespoons of that syrup into the basic meringue mixture.
And a couple of drops of the yellow food colouring and it's done.
Bake them in a low oven at around 100 degrees C for about 2 hours, you are not so much baking
them as drying them out.
And then when you pull them out they will go nice and crisp.
Then make sure you store your meringues in airtight containers, if you just leave them
out they will absorb moisture from the air and go soft.
But in the air tight containers they will stay good for a couple of weeks.
And the raspberry ones are my favourite, just put them in your mouth.
And it is like they just dissolve.
They just pop and you get that burst of raspberry flavour, just amazing.
Let me know which ones are your favourite and have fun experimenting with different
flavours as well.
So now how can you win the golden ticket [music] to have coffee and dessert with me or hot
chocolate and dessert with me and go home with a signed Breville scraper mixer pro.
What you need to do is fill out the entry form and I'll link to that in the description
below this video and it will have all the details of what you need to do there.
And it is only open to people who can get them selves to or who live in Sydney and Los
Angeles.
Because I live in Sydney so i can't do coffee with you if I'm not there.
And I am travelling to LA next month.
So as well as doing one lucky person with their friend, meeting them and giving them
a scraper mixer.
I will also be doing a meet and greet while I am there.
And for all the details on the meet and greet while I am there and for all the details on
the meet and greet you can click here.
And go and find out those details and I'll put that link below as well.
You do need to register for it, it is going to be amazing fun.
It's going to be like no meet and greet you've been to before it's how to cook that style.
So have fun making these.
Let me know which flavours you come up with and what you enjoy the most.
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