Bird’s Nests with French Meringue, Light, and crunchy meringues topped with fresh fruit.
Ingredients for the French meringue
- 3 egg whites, at room temperature.
- ¾ tsp cream of tartar.
- ¾ cup castor sugar.
Method:
Using a pencil and a cup, draw circles on baking paper.
In the bowl of your mixture, pour your egg whites and cream of tartar.
Beat on low speed until foamy.
Increase the speed to high and slowly pour in the sugar.
Whip until stiff peaks are formed.
Carefully spoon the mixture into a piping bag, fitted with a star nozzle.
Pipe your meringue circles.
Pop into a preheated oven and bake at 180 degrees for about 45 – 60 minutes, or until the meringues are nice and crispy.
If it starts to brown, crack open the oven door and allow it to carry on baking.
Remove from the oven and allow to cool till it reaches room temperature.
To assemble your nests:
Spoon sweetened whipped cream in the center of the nests.
Top with mixed fresh berries.
Dust with icing sugar and enjoy.
Prepared, tried, and tested Bobby Swanson
This looks and sounds scrumptious.
You should try it out 🙂
I just may.
OMG. That looks and sounds so delicious. Asking my husband to make this for me!
Enjoy and let us know what you think – Hope you will like it.
My late husband used to cook for me, and I cook, but only from necessity or if some sweet entices me to bake. Lucky you!
I am fortunate that my husband now cooks for us as he is semi-retired and I am still working full-time, but I do the baking.
I grew up with a chef for a father so one of those must haves for me was someone who could cook. So I married a chef. I can make do in the kitchen but I hate cooking so much that I’d rather clean up.
Good distribution of the workload – Enjoy
I’m with you. I use to follow my husband around the kitchen cleaning up after him, because he wasn’t careful about cross contamination, but we did it together.
Life is good.
BTW, like your mustache.
🙂 🙂
Thanks. It was one of the offerings in our chocolate shop.
Love it, the mustache and the chocolate shop