This bright and airy dessert in the form of bird’s nests from the meringue, filled with whipped cream and fresh berries, you can cook for Women’s Day March 8th. To start, bake the nests from hard beaten egg whites with sugar. The warmer the squirrels, the your meringue will turn out more voluminous and lush, and tartar is not will give her a fall. Fill the oven-dried nests with whipped sugar and vanilla cream, and top with berries. More than your berry assortment will be varied and colorful, dessert on the festive table will look more spectacular.
Recipe author – Anna Olson (Olson) – pastry chef and presenter tv shows
Time: one час.Difficulty: easy. Quantity: 6 cakes. Recipes used. volumetric containers: 1 cup (tbsp.) – 240 ml. 3/4 cup (st.) – 180 ml. 1/2 cup (tbsp.) – 120 ml. 1/3 cup (st.) – 80 ml. 1/4 cup (st.) – 60 ml. 1 tablespoon (tbsp.) – 15 ml. 1teaspoon (tsp) – 5 ml.
Ingredients for the recipe:
Meringue
- Protein 3 large eggs, room temperature
- 3/8 tsp tartar
- 150 gr. Sahara
Nests
- 180 ml. whipping cream
- 1 tbsp. l Sahara
- 0.5 tsp vanilla extract
- Big handful of berry assortment
Recipes with similar ingredients: meringue, tartar, eggs, cream
Recipe preparation:
- Preheat the oven to 150 ° C. Marker on parchment paper draw 6 circles with a diameter of 6 cm. each at a distance of at least 5 cm apart, then turn over the paper and lay on a baking sheet.
- Beat egg whites with tartar first at low speed mixer, then as soon as the proteins foam, increase the speed and Pour in sugar slowly without stopping the mixer. Keep going beat the proteins at high speed until strong peaks form on raised whisk.
- Fill a large pastry bag with a nozzle with meringue Big Star. Set the meringue along the contour drawn on paper, completely filling the circles. Then a second layer extrude the ring along the edge of the first layer to make a nest about 5 cm high. from the bottom.
- Put the nests in the oven and immediately reduce the temperature to 135 ° C. Bake for 45-65 minutes (baking time will be depend on temperature and humidity if the kitchen is warm or wet, the meringue will dry longer). If suddenly meringues start to darken, while baking leave the oven door ajar. Cool the meringues to room temperature on a baking sheet, then carefully transfer to a sealed container until ready to serving.
- For assembly, whip the cream until soft peaks and mix sugar and vanilla. Put the bird’s nests on plates, put in center on a spoonful of whipped cream and cover with berries. At once serve. Meringues can be baked a day earlier, but collected nests are needed just before serving.
