Meringue Christmas Trees

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I came across this recipe last year and thought I'd wait till Christmas came round again to share it with you, which I will be using this recipe again in time for my Christmas bakes.

This recipe comes from a blog called Crumbs & Corkscrews.

Let's get baking!

Ingredients:

4  Medium egg whites

200g Caster sugar

1/4 tsp Cream of tartar

1/4 tsp vanilla extract

Green Food colouring

Christmas sprinkles

Preheat your oven to 100C and line a baking tray with a baking sheet, you may need 2 baking trays.

Place the egg whites into a large bowl and using a handheld mixer, whisk until the egg whites start to stiffen, about 3-4 minutes.

Add half of the caster sugar, cream of tartar and vanilla extract and whisk again, until combined. Then add the remaining half of the ingredients, and continue to whisk on a medium-high speed, until the egg whites are thick, smooth and glossy and forming stuff peaks, about 6-8 minutes.

Now add the green food colouring and mix it through evenly.

Fill a piping bag with a star nozzle and add the meringue batter, then pipe the meringue in tall swirl shapes, onto the baking parchment, leave a couple of centimetres between each meringue. Then scatter your sprinkles over the top.

Bake the meringue's for 1 hour. Turn off the heat and leave the meringues in the oven for at least 1 hour to prevent cracking. If you're able to leave them to cool overnight in the oven.

When fully cool, remove the meringues from the baking parchment.

Enjoy however you wish.

While meringues can be time consuming to make, they're definitely worth it, I'm going to be using them this year to top a cheesecake as decorations rather than cream, Last time I made them my handheld mixer packed in halfway through, so I'm hoping that this year it all goes smoothly.

If you would like to read and follow the original recipe then head over the Crumbs & Corkscrews Christmas Tree Meringues recipe page.

See you soon!

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