This weekend we had amazing weather and it was defintely ... or hopefully a sign of the impending summer... so what better way to help it get a move along? PAVLOVAS! These mean kiwi summer to me and I loooooove them.... especially covered in cream and strawberries... and sometimes if im feeling kinky... some kiwifruit!
So I made some lemon and cream cheese cupcakes which I have to say were the nicest cupcakes I have EVER tasted, I got the recipe from a women's weekly cook / bake book and they were sooo yum, I never knew that lemon rind could be so strong, the recipe called for 2 teaspoons (which I thought was nothing!) and they tasted so lemony!
The meringues were a different story, I copied a recipe from the womens weekly again and it had all sorts of witchery involved haha there was white vinegar, cornflour etc etc As I had never made meringues before I just went along with it....... They failed miserably, when I was trying to cool them they sank into flat messes and were a weird color.... so off to youtube i went to for take 2
and found this
how to make meringues video
all she used was sugar and egg whites (suits me!) and made a BIG point about slow baking at a LOW heat..... the women's weekly recipe had them at 100 degrees for 45 minutes?!?!? Anyway so I baked them for about an hour and a half and they came out perfect...... although not as white as I would like... not sure how to achieve this?
One thing I learnt is that they grow quite a bit in the oven and therefore I made them a bit big, next time I will put less on the tray and hopefully they will come out around the size of the top of a cupcake.
Once everything was cool I cut the tops off the cupcakes and removed them from their papers, put a tiny bit of cream on top to hold the pav in place, put the pav on and topped it with cream and strawberries!
Here are the pictures (unfortunately you can not really see the cupcake but its hiding beneath the pav!!)
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