A couple of weeks ago I had a delivery that got me so so giddy. The ever so wonderful postman and the lovely people from Domu.co.uk delivered me a shiny black retro VonShef stand mixer. This felt like the perfect opportunity to try and make a chewy meringue recipe.
I lovingly unpacked it and put in pride of place in my black gloss kitchen, it looks great! But I have also been putting this little beauty through its paces. Joe and I made cup cakes with it last week and it was fantastic.
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I have always wanted to find the perfect chewy meringue recipe.
I remember my first attempt at chewy meringues 20 years ago, 18 eggs later and no meringues! Then. a few years ago I managed them but they were a bit golden! Not exactly white like I had envisaged.
Now I had my mixer there really was no excuse, thus yesterday I set the whole day aside for mastering a meringue recipe.
Hurrah, I managed to create a pink swirl, and white glossy chewy meringue recipe and they tasted great.
Here is my chewy meringue recipe, cobbled together from loads of different recipes, but it worked for me.
How To Make Chewy Meringues With Pink Swirls
Ingredients
- 180 g caster sugar
- 120 g Icing sugar
- 4 egg whites
- 1/4 teaspoon cream of tartar
- A pinch of salt
- A drop of vanilla essence
- Pink or red food colouring
Instructions
- Pre heat the over at 120 degrees.c
- Whisk the egg whites on high speed until the whites fall in peaks
- Next Add the salt and cream if tartar
- Put the sugar in a spoonful at a time and keep whisking until the mixture is glossy, but do not over mix
- Add the vanilla essence
- Put the mixture into piping bags and pipe in swirls on baking sheets lined with grease proof paper, being sure to leave a space in between.
- With cocktail sticks swirl red food colouring gently onto meringues to create a swirl pattern
- Put in the oven for 1 hour being sure to turn down to 100 degrees c after 30 mins
- Leave to cool on a wire rack.
Notes
Be sure the mixing bowl is clean of grease and dust before using.
How To Make Chewy Meringues
How To Make Chewy Meringues With Pink Swirls
Ingredients
- 180 g caster sugar
- 120 g Icing sugar
- 4 egg whites
- 1/4 teaspoon cream of tartar
- A pinch of salt
- A drop of vanilla essence
- Pink or red food colouring
Instructions
Pre heat the over at 120°c
Whisk the egg whites on high speed until the whites fall in peaks
Add the salt and cream if tartar
Put the sugar in a spoonful at a time and keep whisking until the mixture is glossy, but do not over mix
Add the vanilla essence
Put the mixture into piping bags and pipe in swirls on baking sheets lined with grease proof paper, being sure to leave a space in between.
With cocktail sticks swirl red food colouring gently onto meringues to create a swirl pattern
Put in the oven for 1 hour being sure to turn down to 100 degrees c after 30 mins
Leave to cool on a wire rack.
Notes
Be sure the mixing bowl is clean of grease and dust before using.
Nutrition Information:
Yield: 8 Serving Size: 1Amount Per Serving: Calories: 156Total Fat: 0gSaturated Fat: 0gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 0gCholesterol: 0mgSodium: 45mgCarbohydrates: 38gFiber: 0gSugar: 37gProtein: 2g
Sarah, I have NEVER been able to make meringues!! These look absolutely amazing. And gorgeous photos. I like any cake which contains chocolate. If it doesn’t contain chocolate then, quite frankly, it’s not a cake … it’s a disappointment.
Ha ha Rachel, its funny I am more of a coffee and walnut kinda girl, I think its because I am more of a dark chocolate fan so creamy milky chocolate just doesn’t do it for me x
Carrot cake is my favourite
Date and walnut loaf!
VICTORIA sandwich
Lemon drizzle
I love a Victoria Sandwich – home made strawberry jam and buttercream ????
Coffe cake for me every time! This mixer looks amazing!!
We are so alike, I just said exactly the same replying to Rachel’s comment, good luck lovely x
I love carrot cake with a cream cheese icing! ah it is so lovely!!! 🙂 This is a super giveaway wow.
Oooh me too and good luck x
Bakewell tart every time
Ooh I love Bakewell Tart, good luck x
pastry apple pie
My favourite cake is definitely classic Victoria Sponge!
Lemon Drizzle cake 🙂
I love lemon meringue – delicious
Coffee and Walnut cake is my favourite!
Coffee and walnut and the coffee flavour has to be strong
I love coffee cake!
coffee and walnut cake x
Lemon cheesecake.
Red Velvet xx
Chocolate and fudge cake
I love a good slice of birthday cake, it always tastes amazing.
Lemon drizzle cake
Has to be carrot cake, Sarah 🙂 xxx
I love Carrot Cake x
Black Forrest Gateau x
fudge cake x
Chocolate Fudge Cake 🙂
love carrot cake
Victoria sponge x
wow soo many… carrot cake with butter icing….. bakewell tart with a good dash of almond…Victoria sponge…with butter icing and raspberry jam… and I adore coffee and walnut cake…
love cake
Ha ha, cake cause solve so many problems Jennifer, good luck x
My favourite cake has to be lemon drizzle cake, yum
Coffee and Walnut Cake
Oh gosh this is a toughie as I like coffee cake, chocolate cake and carrot cake it would be impossible to choose between the three. Or though it really came down to it I’m guessing the coffee cake would win hands down, but ssssh please don’t tell the others lol.xx
Sandy I love coffee and walnut too it is just my favourite, ooh or bakewell tart, good luck x
Carrot cake is my favourite and those meringues look divine.
I’m the first to admit I’m not a baker but I’d really like to challenge myself using a mixer like that!
Instate it gorgeous, it makes you want to bake Louise, good luck x
My favourite cake is lemon drizzle
Lemon cream sponge
coffee and walnut cake
Lemon Drizzle
carrot cake
My favourite cake is chocolate cake
coffee and walnut cake
I love cheesecakes 🙂
Lemon Drizzle
Thank you sarah xx
Why didnt chocolate come up? ????
Ha ha no idea, Good luck Lisa x
Meringue is delicious. Whilst I also like carrot cake etc.
rhubarb crumble muffins
Chocolate Fudge Cake
Apricot cheesecake
carrot cake is my fav, so yummy!
This mixer looks fab. I’m so impressed with the swirl in the meringues definitely something I want to try out! Chocolate cake for me YUM!
Isn’t it cool Alice, good luck x
COFFEE AND WALNUT
Victoria Sponge Sandwich
madiera cake
The meringues look to die for. I’ve always dreamed of one of these mixers.
I love banana and walnut cake, but unfortunately I’m on a diet, so I would bake for everybody else
I suppose I could lick the bowl on the quiet!!
I have to bake for every one else too Chantelle I live on a diet !! Good luck x
Has to be anything chocolate, ooh like Death By Chocolate, what a way to go ha!
Carrot cake
I MUST ADMIT I LIKE ALL CAKES BUT MY FAVOURITE IS COFFEE AND WALNUT
My family’s Sponge Cake recipe with Buttercream Icing
my work mate makes a fab lemon drizzle cake that she brings in to work
Chocolate fudge cake
Chocolate fudge cake
I love coffee and walnut cake, I make it using my mums recipe <3
carrot cake
A beautiful retro Black Forest gateau ??
Lemon Drizzle is my all time favourite cake. Thank you for the chance.
Chocolate cake mmmmm
Chocolate Fudge Cake
mine is banana cake
I love carrot cake. Actually I also love maderia and chocolate cake too!
lemon cheese cake
Banana and Walnut cake
The children and I love making Carrot Cakes the best. Thanks Sarah for this great giveaway.
Carrot cake!
chocolate fudge cake x
I love date and walnut cake
It takes a lot to beat a lovely Lemon drizzle cake, washed down with a nice brew. Yum! However as I am a bit of a cake addict, any thing with a deliciously light sponge will be acceptable! 😉
Ha ha well good luck Steve, this sounds like just what you need x
Black Forest Gateux
Carrot cake
Carrot cake
My favourite cake is pineapple upside down cake
My favourite cake is Madeira cake…and it’s so easy to make…
Love lemon and poppy seed cake x
got to be red velvet cake
Has to be carrot cake. Great competition Sarah, and yes it would look lovely in my kitchen as an ornament lol. Well done on conquering the meringues x
Thanks Tracey, I have to say I am thrilled with them, and I bet if you won you would want to use it its to gorgeous not to use x
What’s my favourite cake: ALL OF THEM!!!!
My favourites are carrot cake and a nice lemon drizzle
Victoria Sponge
Red velvet cupcakes
Orange polenta cake.I cant stop at one slice and have made two cakes this month already.
chocolate fudge
Home made victoria sandwich
My favourite cake depends on my mood – I love red velvet cake as long as it has the really tangy cream cheesy icing on the top. Otherwise it’s probably a chocolate fudge cake or a lemon drizzle…So many to choose from!
Chocolate
I love chocolate cake with fresh cream and raspberries
I’m not much of a cake lover, I prefer savoury foods, but I do like an occasional slice of rich fruit cake accompanied by a piece of cheese
I don’t think there is anything that beats a Victoria Sandwich!
I love baking Victoria jam sponge ????
I love Walnut and coffee cake x
With several members of the family being dairy free and one gluten-free it is often hard to find something really special but a Spanish Orange & Almond Cake fits the bill and is delicious!
I love a chocolate cake filled with fresh cream and strawberries.
Lemon drizzle
The classic Victoria sponge with cream and jam in the middle
I love a rich fruit cake xx
Wetabx cake cos it fools me to think I am eating healthiy
Coffee fudge cake
Victoria sponge
My favourite at the moment is Banana and Sultana Loaf.
Chocolate orange fudge cake, doesn’t get better than that! <3
I like a nice Battenberg.
Chocolate cake!
Lemon Drizzle but only with a lovely crispy top
Black Forest Gateaux, but I have to but that in as I’m not skilled enough.
depends on my mood; I like Lemon Drizzle and Carrot cake, but I would rather make them than eat them.
A nice rich chocolate cake, easy to decorate if little ‘un wants to help, after having licked the bowl and spoon!
Lemon Drizzle Cake
Mu favourite is a Black Forest gateau!
Oh has to be lemon drizzle
Lemon Drizzle is my favourite cake
It has to be a flourless chocolate cake, delicious.
Cherry and Almond cake. It has to be moist, very almondy, and stuffed full of plump glacé cherries. I’ve made myself hungry now so I’ll have to go and make one!
Coffee and walnut cake
Christmas fruit cake with cherries and spices 🙂
i love a black forest gateau mmm
So many to choose from but love Carrot Cake
lemon drizzle
My favourite is fruit cake, bake well slice and Victoria Sponge
I have never been able to make meringue either… but now I will have another attempt as I do love a lemon meringue 🙂
My favourite cake is a close call between a Victoria sponge and carrot cake. I suppose the final decision comes down to what mood i’m in.
I cant believe I have finally mastered it Diane, good luck x
Carrot Cake
Coffee cake
Victoria Sandwich
I love Chocolate Brownies, especially when still warm. Real comfort food. Mmm I’m making my mouth water just thinking about those yummy Brownies!
Carrot cake!! 🙂
My family’s Home made Sponge Cake recipe with Chocolate Buttercream Icing
we share our cakes interest as I also love coffee and walnut cake.. mmmmm yum!
My favourite cake is fruit cake.
Lemon Drizzle cake mmmmmnn x
Got to be Lemon Drizzle Cake!
Mary Berry’s Chocolate & Rum Cake (without the rum!!). I feel your pain with meringues, but I’m really lucky with them – whether they’re meringue shells or pavlova – it’s our go-to birthday cake!
Lemon drizzle
Love a Classic Victoria Sandwich
Fruit cake
My favourite cake is chocolate fudge cake
Red velvet cake with cream cheese frosting!
coffee cake cant be beat especially when homemade
Any kind of cheesecake 😀
Manchester Tart, all day everyday 🙂
I love a good old banana & chocolate cake
love a Victoria Sandwich x
love black forest gateaux
Lemon Drizzle
Pumpkin and orange or carrot cake
Coffee cake
It’s a tough choice between Chocolate Fudge or Lemon Drizzle!
Carrot Cake for me!
I love chocolate cake
I love chocolate and guinness cake with buttercream icing.
Coffee & Walnut – scrummy 🙂
Carrot Cake
Cheesecake is my fave! The meringues looks so yummy, great photos as well x
Coffee and walnut – not had one of those for ages!
Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese Icing.
I love lemon drizzle cake
choc fudge
Grandma’s rough cake. A family handed down. A sort of poor man’s fruit cake 🙂
My mother in laws coffee cake. AMAZING!
Has to be victoria sponge i love it
Has to be the classic Victoria Sponge for me.
I love, love, LOVE Carrot cake with a cream cheese frosting.
I love brown sugar meringues with fresh strawberries and Devonshire clotted cream!
A coconut cake
MY favourite cake is a chocolate cake with fresh cream
I adore coffee and walnut cake
Absolutely love a Gluten Free Lemon Drizzle cake – so fresh and light!!!!
Coffee & Walnut cake
Chocolate fudge cake, moist and delicious
Red Velvet Cake is my favourite 🙂
I love a coffee and walnut but rarely make them because I’m the only member of the household that does like them. If I made one I’d have to eat the whole thing myself! To be honest though, I’ve never met a cake I don’t like so I’m happy with any alternative too.
Same here Sarah, its my fave but no one here eats it so I never make it. I might have a go though x
battenburg
Carrot cake 🙂
I love a nicley done Victoria sandwich cake
im a huge fan of coffee and walnut cake! yum!
anything chocolate, covered in cream
Double chocolate (and even more chocolate!)
My all time favourite cake is homemade banana cake with chocolate cream icing.
Thank you for the giveaway and post on meringues. My mother and grandmother used to be able to whip up pavlovas and batches of meringues without a recipe. They were always divine. Mine were always chewy!
I love carrot cake delicious ????????
I love date and walnut cake although pineapple upside down cake comes a very close second 🙂
My favourite cake is coffee and walnut.
I love carrot cake!
I love Jamaican Ginger Cake ????
Victoria sponge. Mmmm????
Ginger cake with a blob of cream
Carrot Cake or Bakewell tart
Ginger cake
I love a sweet swirling meringue!
My favourite is carrot cake
A lovely bit of Parkin
Victoria sponge cake
Lemon Drizzle Cake – in fact it’s the whole family’s favourite cake.
Chocolate (every time!!)
cheesecake
carrot cake
Carrot cake 🙂
Coffee and walnut cake!
Coffee and Walnut is my top cake. Delicious and easy to make with the right equipment.
Chocolate fudge cake is my top cake. Delicious and easy to make with the right equipment.
Lemon drizzle cake. Yum.
I love a rich fruit cake with nuts and place cherries, sultanas, currants and raisins.
Apple cake
My favourite cake is orange and rhubarb.
lemon drizzle! im the only one in my house who likes it so i hardly ever bake or buy it!
I am SO excited about this!! It has been on my wishlist for such a long time! I’m a cake girl through and through but my all time favourite is a simple Victoria Sandwich, like my nan used to make xx
I am SO excited about this!! It has been on my wishlist for such a long time! I’m a cake girl through and through but my all time favourite is a simple Victoria Sandwich, like my nan used to make. Fingers crossed xx
It’s so hard to choose! Maybe a Lemon Drizzle!
Chocolate cake!
carrot cake
Warm Chocolate Fudge Cake is my favourite , me and the kids make it all the time .x
Carrot Cake
Ginger cake! We have an old family recipe and it’s soo good
Granny loaf
a victoria sponge
Well there’s 2. Coffee and Walnut, my Mum also makes a lovely fruit cake with brown sugar which she has had in a recipe book my Grandma had, so it’s a very old recipe. Delicious hot with butter melting into it.
i love a battenburg
Yummy red velvet it’s got so much flavour it’s delicious
I love an all butter Madeira cake !!
My favourite cake was a wild banana cake I had in a cafe it was so yummy.
Coffee and Walnut cake
Chocolate fudge cake
It has to be a chocolate cake. There’s something so satisfying about them, especially when accompanied with chocolate buttercream icing. I made one at the weekend actually! (and it’s nearly all gone already!)
My favourite is Sacher Torte, yum yum
Carrot Cake
My favourite cake is carrot cake with cream frosting yum… I have a great recipe for it and its really easy to make. What a fantatsic giveaway – love the retro mixer it would come in very handy in my kitchen and the black and chrome would match perfectly xx
Carrot cake. It’s got vegetables in it so it’s good for me…right?
Pineapple upside down cake.
I love a homemade Victoria sandwich 🙂
I adore Coffee and walnut cake
Gluten free lemon drizzle cake
I have 2 favourites. Red velvet and coffee and walnut
An impossible question…a nice light fruit cake, with cheese of course !
mine is a bakewell tart x
I absolutely love carrot cake <3
Strawberry and white chocolate cake lovely
I love a Victoria Sandwich
My favourite cake is black forest cheesecake (usually have to make my own because I can never find it).
Carrot cake
oooh a lovely lemon drizzle
I love carrot cake especially the one my boyfriensd makes.
My Mums cherry and almond cake, wish I could get the hang of it!
I love a nice moist chocolate cake
homemade victoria sponge with lemon filling
Chocolate fudge cake is my favourite
I love my mums homemade fruit cake! It is delicious!
Lemon drizzle cake is by far the best cake in the world
coffee and walnut nom noms!!!! fantastic giveaway,
It’s got to be chocolate cake, the more chocolate the better! 😀
Carrot Cake is definitely my favourite 🙂
My favourite cake has to be the classic victoria sponge. Awesome giveaway, thank you 🙂 x
My favourite cake is chocolate with lots of chocolate frosting inbetween and on top ????
lemon drizzle cake
Welsh Cakes
I love a Lemon Drizzle Cake but would experiment with lots of different cakes if I won this super giveaway!
I love Carrot Cake!
cheesecake
vegan carrot cake.. yum
Pavlova 🙂 yummy
Lemon drizzle cake, yummytastic ????????????
Chocolate fudge cake is my favourite
Lemon drizzle cake x
Coffee and Walnut is my ultimate favourite. I go all weak when I see them in a tea or coffee shop. I love making them too, but eat too much! Meringues are probably my least successful bakes. I don’t know why.
oh i just love a coffee and walnut sponge cake
Coffee and Walnut with a nice cuppa tea!
Has to be meringues, cannot resist, especially with lashings of cream!
has to lemon meringue pie!!
brownie
My mums toffee vodka cake
Chocolate fudge cake
chocolate fudge cake is my fave
My favourite cake is carrot cake.
CARROT CAKE
chocolate fudge cake
Chocolate fudge cake
chocolate cake
Victoria sponge cake x
I do love a nice Coffee and Walnut cake
I love coffee and walnut cake
Love coffee cake, even more so that no one else in the house likes it so I don’t often get to have it!
depends on my mood, but I particularly like lemon drizzle cake
I love red velvet cake
Carrot cake or Eton mess.yummy
My favourite cake is carrot cake as long as it doesn’t have raisins or sultanas in it, I love nuts though
coffee and walnut cake, ive always loved it since i was little
Lemon drizzle cake
It honestly has to be lemon meringue. It was a child hood fave, my mum would get us to whip up the meringue. Very nostalgic
Chocolate cake
A Victoria Sandwich made with fresh cream.
Being gluten free its meringue. Iv done lots of experimenting and my biggest hit was a hazelnut meringue roulade. So easy to make but taste fantastic!
My favourite cake is cake! Any kind has always been fine with me! Although now, sadly, it must be gluten free.
I’m not too fussy as long as it’s vegan and gluten-free – I’ll try it. This stand would be much appreciated.
Lemon Drizzle Cake
I love vicky sponge and lemon drizzle x
love victoria sponge
I must admit i am rather partial to slice or two of walnut cake 🙂 X x
red velvet cake
Ginger Cake 😀
Favourite cake..that’s a hard one..varies day by day lol..overall it has to be coffee and walnut followed closely by lemon drizzle
Carrot cake for me 🙂 yummy!
I love a lemon drizzle cake 🙂
Chocolate mayonnaise cake.
VICTORIA sandwich
Even I feel like I could make meringues……Id love to make an edible sponge cake. I love baking, baking doesn’t love me….but I will continue to torture my family with my attempts in the vain hope that one day I will hear those words I long to hear…..”mum that was delicious”
Victoria sponge cake x