RT gifted me with some delicious Fair Trade Baking Cocoa from Equal Exchange I knew I had to bake with it ASAP. After reading Eat, Live, Run’s post on Meringue I decided I had to do something similar–but with Cocoa. I followed the recipe exactly, except I added about 1/3 of a cup of Cocoa to the sugar before combining with the egg whites and cream of tartar.
I left my pastry bags at my parents house after making Catherine and Andrew’s wedding cake (a post on this is coming–I promise). I decided to just put the wet meringue mixture into a zip lock bag and cut the corner off. It was very easy to make little “clouds” out of the meringue. I tried experimenting with “baskets” that could then be filled with fresh berries….lets just say that is still a work in progress.
After my patience was worn a bit thin the meringues were finally ready! Fresh out of the oven, these were delicious, they tasted like clouds of chocolate melting in my mouth. I tell you, this is the stuff dreams are made of.
Chocolate Dreams
[Lizzie]
I miss living with you and getting free taste tests!