And new cookbook The Meringue Girls presents you with many adorable ways to let them take over your life — or at least a baby shower, wedding, or birthday party.
This is a Barbie doll wearing a skirt made of cake, covered in frosting, and decorated with meringue kisses.
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She was created for a new cookbook called Meringue Girls by Alex Hofler and Stacey O'Gorman, a London-based baking team who met while working at a restaurant in Hackney. Between them, Hofler and O'Gorman had several years of catering, culinary school, food styling, and corporate marketing experience before they discovered their mutual love of whipped egg whites. With this cookbook they present a compelling argument that meringues could be the new cupcake (or cake pop, or macaron). Making a meringue skirt for a Barbie doll is a pretty good place to start.
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If you've never made one before, it's easy enough — but keep these tips in mind:
-To make them, you are going to whip egg whites — just the whites — in a big bowl for several minutes until they form stiff peaks. To do this, you'll need an electric mixer or a stand mixer.
-The bowl and utensils you use to whip the whites need to be very clean and dry; the egg whites themselves can't have any shell or pieces of yolk in them or they won't get stiff.
- Once you've whipped the whites very stiff (don't jump the gun on that step or the recipe won't work) you add sugar and keep whipping even longer. Only then do you put it in a piping bag or spread it on a cookie sheet and bake to harden.
The result will be sweet, light, crunchy, and — if you add a little vinegar to the mix — pleasantly chewy in the middle.
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