Marbled Meringue Kisses

It turns out it makes enough to pipe several meringue kisses for decoration.

Marbled meringue kisses.

Once you have piped all your meringue kisses and swirls place you meringues in the oven and bake for 30 minutes or until the meringues can be removed from the grease proof paper without sticking you meringues can be made ahead of your cake and stored in an airtight container for up to 2 weeks. 11 to make the buttercream. Complete with a pretty bow and hand made card for a gift that shows you care. Pipe the meringue mixture with a plain round nozzle onto a lined tray and bake at 100 c for approximately 2 hours or until crunchy.

Place a dab of meringue on four corners of pan and press paper on top to hold it down flat. Take of the meringue and colour it with the yellow colour until you achieve a bright yellow. For the marbled effect just use a spoon edge dipped in red gel food colouring and draw lines inside the piping bag before adding the meringue mixture. Roll the bag so the painted side is inside and carefully spoon in meringue mixture so it is packed in tightly.

Present in a beautifully wrapped gift box jar or alternatively mount each completed meringue kiss onto a thick skewer and wrap the bunch like a spray of flowers. Using an electric mixer beat egg whites and salt in clean dry large bowl until soft peaks form. I m so happy that the leftover egg white found such a pretty purpose in this cake. To stripe kisses turn piping bag inside out and paint on 4 5 stripes of food coloring.

Preheat oven to 120 c 100 c fan forced. Meringue kisses heghine cream of tartar food coloring paste vanilla extract egg whites and 1 more meringue kisses kitchen simmer large egg whites white sugar vanilla cream of tartar food coloring and 1 more. For a sweet surprise for mum this mother s day make up a batch of marbled meringue kisses.