| powdered sugar | 150 g | |
| egg white | 80 g | |
| bitter chocolate | 20 g |
Just 2 ingredients will be enough to make delectable crispy and glossy meringues. Add chocolate and create real Halloween meringues. Touching and funny Ghosts are likely to attract all the guests and vanish out of a sweet table first.
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Step 1Set the oven at 90°C. Sugar and egg whites put in a saucepan and place over a double boiler. |
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Step 2Combine the sugar and egg whites in a saute pan an place on a baine marie, i.e. half-fill a bag pan and put it over the heat, bring to a boil and put the saute pan onto it. The bottom must not touch the water. |
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Step 3Constantly stir a mixture till it reaches 65°C (or till the sugar is melted). Best is to use a kitchen thermometer. |
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Step 4Set mixture aside. |
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Step 5Beat the egg whites with the sugar until the mixture is stiff. |
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Step 6Put the egg whites mixture into a pastry bag with a round ring and place the meringues on a baking sheet covered with a nonstick baking parchment leaving some space between each other. Try to make the meringues in a pyramid shape with a sharp nose on the top. Place in the preheated oven (a convection mode) and bake for 2h (if you want to have them drier then keep for 30 minutes more). Turn off the oven and allow the meringues to cool in the oven with a preopen door. |
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Step 7Place chocolate on a small plate and heat into a microwave oven (around 20 sec), mix with a help of a toothpick. |
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Step 8Paint eyes and a mouth with chocolate on the cooled meringues using the toothpick. |
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Step 9Let chocolate cool. |
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Step 10The meringues “Ghosts” are ready. Keep in an airtight container or a box at the room temperature. |
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Step 11Bon appetite! |
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