This recipe for Chocolate Honey Meringues was published by Dan Lepard a couple of weeks ago in his Guardian Weekend column. It only needed one more egg white adding!
The recipe was straightforward to follow and I didn't encounter any problems, although I did lower the temperatue by 10C after the first hour as I know my oven is quite hot. The mixture made about 25 meringues using a tablespoon of the raw meringue mix for each one.
The flavour was great - I used a strongly flavoured Greek mountain honey - but unfortunately I just didn't like the texture. They were almost jaw-breakingly hard, and I'm not experienced enough with meringues to know if this was right, or if I did something wrong, such as overbaking or not beating the egg whites enough. I think I will have to freeze these and eventually use them in an Eton Mess type of dessert, where they will have a chance to soften a bit before they are eaten.
7 comments:
Eton Mess made with chocolate meringues sounds gorgeous! Some dark cherries and a bit of booze...
I saw this recipe and wondered if you'd try it Sue. I prefer hard meringue I think but I'm no expert on making it. I do love good honey though, I might give these a go in the school holidays.
Foodycat - sounds good to me. I'm trying an 'instant' dessert tonight with dried apricots soaked a while in apricot yogurt, cream and the meringues in layers.
Jude - these were really hard - like toffee!
These look and sound so good, it's hard to imagine they can break your jaws - that doesn't sound quite normal for meringues.
I've just been told off by your word verification - truent. I know it's been a while since I've visited but didn't realise it was that long!
Choclette :) I've often had word verifications which seem spookily apt for food blogs, but one recent one was 'mingin'!
Even mixing the meringues with cream for a couple of hours didn't really soften them!
Suelle, Choclette, I recently said to Pete, "I think the word verifications are trying to tell me something.." I swear there's a message to be had there sometimes.. :)
Serendipitous, Suelle, I've been making chocolate meringues too. Different recipe though - I must go check out Dan's, thank you for the headsup! :)
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