Chocolate Dipped Meringues

Chocolate Dipped Meringues~

These little chocolate dipped meringues are a very simple idea and there are lots for your helpers to do – including finger licking! Great for Easter, a gift or simply an activity.

Ingredients for chocolate dipped meringues:

• 2 pieces of egg white,
• 110 g of caster sugar,
• chocolate for melting,
• chopped nuts or seeds.

~This will make approx. 23-30 meringues.

Directions for the meringues:

1. At first turn your oven to 110°C. Line a baking tray or two depending on size.
2. Ensuring all your utensils are totally clean, whisk your egg whites in a glass or ceramic bowl with an electric whisk until they form 'stiff peaks' (but don't become
3. dry).
4. Add sugar, 1 tsp at a time, ensuring that it dissolves before the next tsp is added. This should take 5-7 minutes.
5. Spoon your meringue mixture into a piping bag with a largish nozzle.
6. Pipe mini meringues. Place in the bottom half of the oven to cook until dried all the way through, this will be approx. 1 hr
7. Lastly allow to cool on a wire rack.

Tip:

If your meringues have spiky tails – dip your finger in water and dab them down. Otherwise they will burn.

Directions for the chocolate:

1. At first melt your chocolate in a bain-marie; this is simply hot water in a pan with a bowl placed over the top that contains your broken up chocolate.
2. Line a tray. Prepare your nuts or seeds – they can be toasted or plain.
3. Gently pick up your meringue and dip in the chocolate and then any nuts or seeds.
4. Lastly place on your lined tray and allow the chocolate to set.