About
Party puds don’t come much simpler and less expensive than these mandarin and chocolate meringues. You may make the meringues up to and including week ahead of time after which fill with whipped cream and fruit, fresh or canned, and top having a grating of chocolate as much as an hour or so before serving. We’ve used canned mandarins to have an affordable winter fruit however in the summer time when peaches, bananas and raspberries have been in season they create an excellent topping too. With raspberries, white-colored chocolate grated outrageous is especially good. When grating chocolate make use of a bar that’s at 70 degrees as it’s less brittle than a single right out the fridge.
- Serves: 12
- Total time: 1 hr 15 mins
- Level of skill: Easy peasy
- Costs: Low as chips
Ingredients
- 2 egg-whites, at 70 degrees
- 100g caster sugar
- 300ml double cream
- 298g can mandarin segments in juice, drained
- 50g chocolates grated
Method
- Preheat the oven to 140 ° C/275 ° F/Fan 120 ° C/Gas Mark 1. Line 2 baking sheets with baking paper. Put the egg-whites inside a clean grease-free bowl and taking advantage of an electrical mixer whisk until stiff enough to create stiff peaks.
- Add some caster sugar, 1tbsp at any given time, whisking really in between each addition before the meringue is thick, smooth and glossy. Place spoonfuls of meringue to the lined baking sheets and spread just a little to create round nests and bake for one hour until crisp around the outdoors but nonetheless slightly soft in the centre. They ought to come from the baking paper easily without sticking.
- Whip the cream until thick enough to create soft peaks. Once the meringues are awesome, spoon just a little cream into each nest and put the mandarins on top. Sprinkle within the grated chocolate.
By Nichola Palmer
