Meringue Snowflakes
A gorgeous addition to your Christmas table, these Meringue Snowflakes will make everyone smile.
Equipment
- Piping bag, fitted with a star-shaped nozzle
- 2 solid baking trays, lined with baking parchment
Ingredients
- 150 g caster sugar
- 75 g egg whites about 2 medium egg whites
- Edible silver glitter
- Edible silver balls
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 200°C. Tip the sugar into a small roasting tin. Ask an adult to help you put it in the preheated oven for about five minutes until hot to the touch - be careful not to burn your fingers!
- Turn the oven down to 110°C. Place the egg whites in a large, clean mixing bowl or in the bowl of an electric mixer. Ask an adult to help you beat the egg whites (with an electric whisk, if necessary) until they're frothy.
- Tip the hot sugar onto the egg whites in one go and continue to whisk on high speed for about five minutes until the meringue mixture is very stiff, white and cold.
- Spoon the meringue mixture into the prepared piping bag. Pipe little blobs of meringue on to the prepared baking trays in the shape of snowflakes. Scatter silver glitter or silver balls over the top.
- Put the trays in the preheated oven. Bake for about 45 minutes or until crisp and dry. Turn off the oven, leave the door closed and let the snowflakes cool down completely inside.
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