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MINI PAVLOVAS
Because of the fruit - and the cream, for that matter - these are not cheap to make, but I always have a stash of egg whites in my deep freeze so I reckon I'm halfway there before I start.
Recipe posted by Nigella
Ingredients
- 8 large egg whites
- Pinch of salt
- 500g caster sugar
- 4 teaspoons cornflour
- 1 scant teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 teaspoons white wine vinegar
- 750ml whipping cream, duly whipped
- 750g blackberries
- 750g raspberries icing sugar for dusting
- 3 baking sheets, lined with parchment
- tea-strainer
Method
Serves: Makes 18
- Preheat the oven to 180ºC/gas mark 4.
- Whisk the egg whites with the salt until they're holding firm peaks but are not stiff. Gently add in the sugar, spoonful after spoonful, still beating, until you've got a bowl full of gleaming, satiny, snowy meringue. Sprinkle the cornflour, a few drops of vanilla and the vinegar on top and fold in to combine.
- Draw 6 circles of approximately 10cm circles (using a pint glass as a guide, if this helps) on each of the parchment-lined sheets.
- Spoon the meringue onto the baking parchment into the delineated circles, and spread and smooth to fill. You want to make the meringue slightly higher at the rims, or just use the back of the spoon to make an indentation in the centre to hold the cream and fruit later.
- Put into the oven, turn it down to 150ºC/gas mark 2, and bake for 30 minutes. Turn the oven off and leave them in for another 30 minutes, then take out of the oven to cool. I just transfer them, on their baking parchment, to wire racks.
- When you want to assemble them, dollop cream into the indentation, and smooth it with the back of a spoon, leaving the odd peak. Place, one by one, a few blackberries and a few raspberries so that they look well filled but not crammed. Dust with icing sugar.
Comments
I made these last week. Followed the recipe to the T apart from oven timing as I made them very small.. bite size...therefore baked for about 25 mins and removed from oven. They came out absolutely wonderful. It was such a hit!! I will be making these again and hope they come out just as lovely as the first time :)
Posted by ILOVEBAKING on 25th Aug 2011 at 13.06
Fantastic recipe! Made these last night (my first time making pavlovas), and they came out beautiful!! Very impressed!
Posted by Leogal on 25th Sep 2011 at 6.54