Mini Mint Meringue Bites recipe. A colorful green and minty to the taste, meringues to have as a bite for those teas and coffee or desserts.
Mini Mint Meringue Bites
Bake these tasty and delicious green mint mini meringues for a dessert or snack. Easy instructions to make them, serve for kids or family for tea time snack. Oven baked desserts for platter or parities.
What is the secret to meringue?
Adding 1/8 of a teaspoon of cream of tartar for every egg white before beating, for the strongest and most stable meringue. As it is an acid that stabilizers the egg white. Alternatively you can use lemon juice if you do not have cream of tartar. Use 1/2 teaspoon for every egg white before beating. That the secret ingredient.
What should you not make with meringue?
The most common mistakes to avoid when making a meringue.
- Adding sugar to quickly.
- skipping cream of tartar.
- Mixing in a dirty bowl.
- Using cold eggs.
- Overbeating the egg whites.
- Squeezing the air out.
- Baking at to low a temperature.
Ingredients.
Some ingredients needed to make this simple and easy green mint mini meringue bites. (get the full measures and final ingredients from the recipe below)
Granulated or castor or fine sugar.
eggs, with saved egg whites.
Green food coloring.
How To.
Separate the egg yolks from the egg whites, for the meringue.
Starting with whisking your egg whites that were at room temperature. Then slowly adding some castor sugar a little at a time to whisk back to a stiff mixture for meringue piping.
Once the coloring and flavoring has also been added then pipe this into little meringue bites on a baking sheet.
Bake the meringues as per recipe then leave to cool over night. That’s so they don’t crack.
Some amazing tasting mint meringues to have for kids special treats. Even for the family tea.
Wonderfully piped mint meringues, all in a bowl.
Recommendations.
Get these recipe ideas —–> 16 Easy Valentines Snacks Recipes and 21 Easy Bite Size Party Desserts
As well as —–> Best Mini Pavlova and Meringues Recipes
And other similar recipe ideas with pavlova or meringues.—–> Mini Berry Pavlova Twirls
and —-> Mini Creamy chocolate and hazel nut pavlova and —–> Mini Pink Meringue Kisses and —–> Mini Lemon Curd filled Meringue and —–> Easy Healthy Coconut Macaroons
PrintMini Mint Meringue Bites
Mini Mint Meringue Bites recipe. A colorful green and minty to the taste, meringues to have as a bite for those teas and coffee or desserts.
- Prep Time: 30 min
- Cook Time: 45 min
- Total Time: 1 hour 15 minutes
- Yield: 36 1x
- Category: Desserts, appetizer, snack
- Method: Oven Baking
Ingredients
- 2 large eggs (whites only at room temperature)
- 3/8 cup of castor sugar (fine sugar)
- pinch of salt
- 1/4 tsp of cream of tartar
- 1/2 tsp of vanilla essence
- green food coloring
- 1/2 Tbsp of mint extract
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 225 Deg. F (117 Deg.C)
- The only time you will use eggs out of the fridge is when you need to separate them from the whites. Then leave the egg whites to get to room temperature. Before whisking them. (they are easier to separate this way)
- To make pink or other flavors take your freeze dried strawberries ( or Raspberries) and place in a blender until they are a fine powder. Then measure a 1/2 cup and add to your (cup)sugar and set aside.
- Obtain your clean and dry mixer bowl, and add your room temperature egg whites and cream of tartar and salt. Blend the egg whites on medium until the mixture becomes frothy then place the mixer on high and blend until it becomes firm, and doubles its size.
- Add one tablespoon of fine sugar at a time to this mixture while still blending at a high speed until smooth. (adding the sugar slowly will not allow the whisked egg whites to become soft) Continue whisking until soft peaks form.
- Add the vanilla mint extract and a drop of green food coloring and beat until combined.
- Transfer the meringue mixture to a piping bag with a star point.
- Pipe the meringue mixture onto the greased wax paper on the baking trays.
- Holding the bag upright pipe a tight swirl starting in the middle then outward and around.
- Pull the piping bag away on top to create a little spike
- Bake in oven for 45 minutes.
- Do not open the oven door when baking. Once they have finished baking leave the oven door closed and switch of the stove. Allow the meringues to stay in the closed oven for up to an Hour. Before moving from the baking sheet pan.
- After baking decorate the meringues as you please or leave as is and serve on some decorated plate
No raspberries in ingredients. In step5 I assume it is a tbsp of SUGAR that is being added?
Thank you for you comment. This recipe is for mint meringues, for a different flavor then use dried raspberries. Thanks for pointing that out. Also to use freeze dried fruit the measure would be about 1/2 cup dried fruit powder to a cup of fine sugar. thank you.