Meringue Ghosts

Name: Meringue Ghosts
Prep time: 45 min
Cook time: 45 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 8
Cuisine: Mexican
Ingredients: 1 teaspoons cream of tartar; 3 larges egg whites; 16 miniature semisweet chocolate chips or pieces semisweet chocolate; 177 milliliters sugar; 1 teaspoons vanilla

Meringue Ghosts is a gluten free, dairy free, and fodmap friendly side dish. One serving contains 404 calories, 5g of protein, and 21g of fat. This recipe serves 8. This recipe covers 9% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes approximately 45 minutes. If you have cream of tartar, sugar, pieces semisweet chocolate, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it. This recipe is typical of Mexican cuisine.

Instructions

Line 2 baking sheets (each 14 by 17 in.) with cooking parchment, or butter sheets and dust with flour.

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Butter

All Purpose Flour

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Baking Sheet

In a deep bowl, with a mixer at high speed, whip egg whites and cream of tartar to a thick foam. Continuing to beat, add sugar, 1 tablespoon every 30 seconds, then whip until meringue holds very stiff peaks.

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Cream Of Tartar

Egg Whites

Sugar

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Blender

Bowl

Beat in vanilla. If using cooking parchment, smear a little meringue on the underside of each corner to make it stick to baking sheets.

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Vanilla

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Baking Sheet

Spoon meringue into a pastry bag fitted with a 1/2-inch plain tip (or spoon into a gallon-size heavy plastic food bag, then cut off 1 corner to make a 1/2-inch-wide opening). Pipe meringue onto baking sheets into ghostly shapes about 1/4 to 1/2 inch thick, 2 to 4 inches wide, and 4 to 6 inches long, spacing about 2 inches apart. To make eyes (noses and mouths, if desired) press chocolate chips lightly into meringue.

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Chocolate Chips

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Baking Sheet

Pastry Bag

Bake in a 200 oven until meringues begin to turn pale gold and are firm to touch, 1 1/4 to 1 1/2 hours (1 to 1 1/4 hours in a convection oven); switch pan positions halfway through baking. Turn off heat and leave meringues in closed oven for 1 hour.

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Oven

Frying Pan

Slide a spatula under meringues to release.

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Spatula

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Servings:

1teaspoons

cream of tartar 3larges

egg whites 16

miniature semisweet chocolate chips or pieces semisweet chocolate 177milliliters

sugar 1teaspoons

vanilla

Recommended wine: Pinot Noir, Riesling, Sparkling Rose

Mexican can be paired with Pinot Noir, Riesling, and Sparkling rosé. Acidic white wines like riesling or low-tannin reds like pinot noir can work well with Mexican dishes. Sparkling rosé is a safe pairing too. One wine you could try is Stoltz Organic Pinot Noir. It has 5 out of 5 stars and a bottle costs about 26 dollars.