Meringue
For Making Meringue Mushrooms
Ingrediënten
- 5 oz 150 g Egg whites
- 1⅔ cup 200 g Confectioner’s sugar
- Cocoa powder for dusting
Instructies
- Preheat oven to 210 °F (100 °C).
- Beat the egg whites with the confectioner’s sugar in a bain-marie until it is not so airy, but is creamy.
- It should be between 113 and 122 °F (45 and 50 °C).
- Then beat in an ice bath until it cools.
- It should thicken without losing volume.
- Fill a piping bag fitted with a round nozzle and line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
- To make the mushroom stems, press the piping bag nozzle against the parchment paper and pull it up without squeezing any more.
- For the mushroom tops, pipe semicircles and dust them with cocoa powder before baking.
- Dry in the oven for 30 minutes
Notes / Tips / Wine Advice:
You can use a hand mixer to beat the eggs, but the last step works best with a whisk.