Meringue Snowflakes
Makes about 12
150g caster sugar
75g egg whites (about 2 medium egg whites)
Edible silver glitter
Edible silver balls
Piping bag, fitted with a star-shaped nozzle
2 solid baking trays, lined with baking parchment
Preheat oven to 200C/Gas 6.
Tip the sugar into a small roasting tin.
Put in preheated oven for about five minutes until hot to the touch.
Turn oven down to 110C/Gas ¼. Place egg whites in a large, clean mixing bowl or in the bowl of an electric mixer. Beat the egg whites (with an electric whisk, if necessary) until they’re frothy.
Tip the hot sugar on to the egg whites in one go and continue to whisk on high speed for about five minutes until the meringue mixture is very stiff, white and cold.
Spoon mixture into the prepared piping bag. Pipe little blobs of meringue on to the prepared baking trays in the shape of snowflakes. Scatter silver glitter or silver balls over the top.
Put trays in preheated oven. Bake for about 45 minutes or until crisp and dry. Turn off oven, leave door closed and let the snowflakes cool down completely inside.
• From Christmas Cooking With Kids by Annie Rigg, in hardback by Ryland Peters Small, £14.99, rylandpeters.com
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