Today, my readers, I want to introduce you to the fantastic and sweet world of Meringue: the fluffy and sugary little clouds of goodness!

Since I was a kiddo, I have loved Meringues, but unfortunately my mom didn’t let me eat them very often, firstly because no one at home eat them, secondly because they’re a bit to sweet and sugary and thirdly the ones from supermarket are not the best you can find.

But my sister this summer spoiled me a lot, so here’s the Nigella Lawson recipe for Italian Meringue:

ITALIAN MERINGUE

• 500 g caster sugar
• a pinch of salt
• 4 teaspoon cornstarch
• 2 teaspoon white wine vinegar
• 8 egg whites
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Preheat the oven at 180 °C.

In a mixing bowl, beat the egg whites with the pinch of salt until they have begun to whip almost completely. Then add, a tablespoon at time, caster sugar without stopping the mixer.

When you have finished adding all the sugar, start adding the cornstarch, vanilla extract and white wine vinegar and leave the mixer beat for a few minutes the mixture.

Prepare a tin with parchment paper. Put part of the mixture into a piping bag and start creating the meringues.  For me, it’s the best part of the meringues making! You can choose the diameter and how high you want them.

Lower the oven temperature at 150 °C and bake them for 30 minutes. After this time, turn off the oven and leave the meringues inside for another 30 minutes to let them stand.

Then take out them from the oven and leave them cool for 10 minutes and finally you can eat your delicious meringues!

If you want to have a look to more recipes, here‘s the link where you can find my sister’s cookery corner. You can also find the other recipes I posted on the new board of the blog here on Pinterest