Christmas Meringues (With A Twist)

Settle down for a deliciously naughty post today, I have been busy baking Christmas meringues, hope you enjoy! Now, the reason it says ‘with a twist’ in the title is because they didn’tΒ exactly go to plan but my Mum says I should still post about them as I want to show you the ‘real’ side of me and my blog. Sometimes things go wrong!

Storytime:

I decided to make the Santa hats this afternoon, I originally was going to make some more trees too but too much food colouring meant the mixture wentΒ veeeeeeery runny and it was ruined! As I split the mix to make two different types of Christmas meringues the Santa hats are quite diddy so I’ve renamed them Santa hat meringue kisses. Due to the previous colouring disaster I didn’t add excess colouring to the hats so they’re slightly pink in colour, rather than red.

That doesn’t matter so much though – Santa hats can be in all different colours! (I did think they looked slightly like some boobs but that wasΒ definitelyΒ not the intention!).

I did make some other Christmas tree meringues last week for my end of term Christmas party – the green colour didn’t hold on the outside of the meringue but they were green inside! That gave everyone a little surprise when they took a bite!

 

How to make them:

That’s enough of me nattering away, you really only came here for the recipe and how to make them! I found the recipe on the Tesco Real Food website and it’s a fab little recipe, the meringues are crispy on the outside but soft, gooey and chewy on the inside…Β Perfect!

Ingredients:
  • 4 egg whites
  • 250g caster sugar
  • Food colouring gel – green and red if you want to make hats and trees.
  • Hundreds and thousands / mini chocolate stars – for the trees.

This mix makes roughly 20 larger meringues. Apparently food colouring gel works better than normal food colouring as is less liquidy, although, I’ve proved it can still fail!

Recipe:
Christmas Trees:
  • Preheat the oven to gas 1/2, 120Β°C, fan 100Β°C and line 2 baking sheets with nonstick baking paper.
  • In a large bowl, whisk the egg whites with a hand-held mixer until soft peaks form. Gradually add half the sugar, 1-2 tablespoons at a time, whisking well between each addition. Mix in the green food colouring, and then add the remaining sugar and whisk until stiff peaks form and the meringue is glossy.
  • Spoon the meringue into a large piping bag fitted with a star nozzle. Pipe Christmas trees onto the lined baking sheets, sprinkle over a few hundreds and thousands, and then top each tree with a yellow star.
  • Bake for 1 hour until the meringues are crisp and dry. Turn the oven off, prop the door open a little and leaves the meringues inside to cool for an hour – this will prevent them from cracking as they cool. Remove from the oven and leave to cool completely before removing from the baking paper.

 

Santa Hats:
  • The recipe for the Santa hats is basically the same, however, you need to seperate the mix so that some of the mix can be white and some can be red.
  • I add all of the sugar, 1-2 table spoons at a time, whisking till soft peaks were made. I then spooned out 3/4 of the mix and put it in a bowl.
  • Mixing the rest of the mix in the bowl till still peaks were formed I scooped out the meringue into a piping bag and put to one side.
  • The leftover meringue was then added and whisked, with a few drops of red food colouring added. Finish the meringue as normal.
  • When piping, use the pink/red mix to make the main hat section and then pipe the white meringue around the bottom and add a blob on top for the pom-pom!

 

Although they didn’tΒ quite turn out how I wanted, I’m still happy. Me and Mum had a taste test and they’re still delicious!

Hope you enjoyed the post and I hope the photographs didn’t make you too hungry! If anyone has any tips on how to make the meringues more red and green please let me know, I’m still learning but at least I got the taste right! Be sure to check out the rest of my Blogmas posts linked here, it’s nearly over!

6 days till Christmas!

AllΒ  photography featured in this blog post is my own.

 

19 Comments

  1. Hi i always wondered what are meringues thanks for sharing the info.
    Really appreciate ur efforts to explain the recipe in detail.
    God bless you
    Lots of love πŸ’—πŸ’—πŸŽ„
    Great pictures too

    1. Imogen Chloe says:

      You’re welcome, glad you enjoyed reading my post. Have a lovely Christmas! Lots of love to you too x

  2. Macey Gloria says:

    CHRISTMAS BOOBS :’) You keep coming out with yummy yummy recipes that have my mouth watering!! I want to try these too now haha. I’ve decided to take it upon myself to do the baking for my mom’s side of the family, and I’m pretty sure I’ll be implementing at least one of your recipes πŸ˜‰ will send photos when I do! xx

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    1. Imogen Chloe says:

      Hahaha oops! I asked my Dad when he got home from work if he wanted to try one of my boobs – completely forgetting how inappropriate that sounds out of context! Oh wow, that’s a big task but I’m sure you’ll succeed and everyone will love it! Can’t wait to see which recipe you decide to try out and if it’s this one, good luck, hopefully yours may be slightly less boob like! πŸ˜‰ Can’t wait to see photos! Have an amazing Christmas! xx

      1. Macey Gloria says:

        That’s hilarious oh my goodness :’) I am chuckling from that one. Haha here’s to hoping that either/both recipes turn out good!! You too xx

  3. The santa hats!! Such a cute idea, thank you for sharing!

    My recent post: https://lifeofellabella.blogspot.com/2018/12/a-festive-day-in-london.html

    1. Imogen Chloe says:

      Hahaha glad you liked them! Thank you, have a lovely Christmas! x

  4. Ashley Firth says:

    I love it when bloggers publish posts when things didn’t quite go to plan! Life isn’t always as polished as some would make out! Thank you for sharing – I think they look great!!!! xxx

    1. Imogen Chloe says:

      For some reason I was no nervous about sharing this post and wondered whether I should. This comment has made me feel so good so thank you. You’re definitely right though, things don’t always go to plan but there’s nothing wrong with that and it’s good to show that we are all human. Thank you! Hope you have a lovely Christmas! xxx

  5. These look delicious! I really like the hats, they are so cute! Although i never made merengues before, I should definitely try this out πŸ‘

    1. Imogen Chloe says:

      Thank you! You should definitely give it a go and don’t worry if they aren’t perfect! x

  6. These are so super cute and I definitely need to make them. They look so professional! Xx

    1. Imogen Chloe says:

      Awh thank you, that’s so kind! xx

  7. They look so good! 😍

    1. Imogen Chloe says:

      Thank you! x

  8. These look sooooo perfect even if they are not the ‘right colour’. Your trees look so cute too – i love the mini baubles on them/decorations β™₯ Good job x (p.s the little Santa decoration is FAB!)

  9. Imogen Chloe says:

    Awh thank you, that’s so kind of you to say! He’s cute isn’t he? Glad you enjoyed reading this! xx

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