Mini Lemon Curd Filled Meringue recipe. Easy Meringue or pavlova nests filled with lemon curd served as a dessert or tarts.
Mini Lemon Curd Filled Meringue
Bake these easy delicious meringues or pavlova desserts with lemon curd filling for a pleasing fine dining serving. Oven Baked meringue nests with three ingredients. Egg whites and fine sugar and cream of tartar. Get the lemon curd recipe to fill these meringues. Best snacks to serve for tea time for family visits.
Why are my mini meringues chewy?
The meringues can become chewy when baking them at a higher temperature for a shorter period of time. This way they will keep some of the moisture inside instead of releasing it at a slower bake. They will also become a darker color.
How to tell if meringue is undercooked?
This is easy to tell if your meringues are undercooked. Try and remove them with your spatula, if they come away from the baking pan easily then they are done. If they stick then leave them to bake a few more minutes. Test again.
What ruins a meringue?
- firstly the eggs should be at room temperature
- not measuring the eggs whites correctly
- do not use a plastic bowl should also matter,
- not using fresh egg whites
- not using clean dry equipment, and bowls
- not using the sugar properly
- Not using the stabilizer, being cream of tartar
- Under beat or over beat the egg whites
- don’t make meringues on humid days
- not baking at the correct temperature and leaving to cool down correctly.
Ingredients
- large eggs (at room temp) Egg Whites only
- cream of tartar
- castor sugar (fine sugar)
- lemon curd (get recipe–> How to Make Lemon Curd)
Get the amounts and the full instructions for this recipe attached below.
Egg whites only
fine sugar and cream of tartar to keep the whipped egg whites stiff
Get the recipe of how to make the lemon curd and keep some for all your desserts and spreads.
Get the recipe in the recipe attached. 😉
How to make meringues successfully
- Use some fresh eggs and they should be at room temperature. Always separate the yolk from the egg whites carefully without breaking the yolk. The mixing bowls should be clean and dry, the whites must not have any yolk in.
- Whip the egg yolks with a mixer until it forms a stiff frothy peak. Don’t over beat the egg whites.
- Adding castor sugar and cream of tartar slowly as the sugar must be fine so that it melts faster.
Do you need cream of tartar for meringue?
Cream of tartar is used to stabilize the egg whites into peaks for a meringue or pavlova. But you may use lemon juice to help the process if you don’t have cream of tartar. Cream of tartar would be the first choice as lemon juice is a liquid which could be a problem to make the mix stabilize.
The above photo shows the egg whites are whipped well. You can whip the egg whites by hand but that is going to take time and a lot of whipping.
Above shows you how to pipe the whipped egg whites onto a baking tray to form a little nest big enough to fill with lemon curd. Then bake in the oven until hard and a little golden. Cooled while left in the oven with the door ajar.
Fill the meringues with lemon curd, and decorate with what you have in the house.
Can be a pretty flower or some berries.
Very easy to use lemon curd filling the meringues inside.
Tasty and crunchy lemon curd filled meringues for snacks, or appetizer’s for any occasion.
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PrintMini Lemon Curd Filled Meringue
Mini Lemon Curd Filled Meringue recipe. Easy Meringue or pavlova nests filled with lemon curd served as a dessert or tarts.
- Prep Time: 30 min
- Cook Time: 30
- Total Time: 60 min
- Category: Desserts, snack
- Method: Oven Baking
Ingredients
- 4 large eggs (at room temp) Egg Whites only
- 1/2 tsp of cream of tartar
- 1 cup of castor sugar (fine sugar)
- 2 Cups of lemon curd (get the recipe–> How to make lemon curd )
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 300 Deg.F (150 Deg.C)
- Line two baking sheet pans with wax paper or baking mats.
- In a clean and dry mixer whip the egg whites on high until they become frothy and form high peaks. Doesn’t take long.
- Add the cream of tartar and continue beating on high while adding a tablespoon of castor sugar slowly and continue beating until all is added. This can take up to 10 minutes.
- When mixture has formed stiff peaks, you can then fill a piping bag with the mixture.
- Then pipe slowly a 3 -5 cm egg white, then start around that and pipe up until a required form is done. (a mini nest)All in one action.
- Bake for 10 minutes at 300 Deg.F (150 Deg.C) Then reduce heat to 250 Deg.F (120 Deg.C) and bake for a further 10 – 20 min. until the meringues feel hard and slightly golden.
- Turn oven off and leave meringues in oven to cool with oven door slightly open.
- Once cool, spoon some lemon curd into the mini nests and serve. (the recipe here)
- decorate as you please.
- The lemon curd may be stored in the fridge separately.
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