#Food / Recipe For My Delicious Meringue Tower / Dessert / Valentine Treat / #teamsouthafrica

Enjoy making a meringue tower for Valentine's Day or other celebration!

Create a delicious meringue tower with strawberries and chocolate balls. 

Ingredients -

Quantity can be doubled as I have done.

1 cup sugar

1 egg white

1 Tablespoon white vinegar 

1 teaspoon baking powder

1 teaspoon vanilla essence

Method -

Separate your egg white from the yolk - keep yolk in fridge for another dish.

Beat egg white till stiff

Gradually add and beat in sugar, beat again.

Add vinegar and beat very stiff.  These steps are extremely important.

Add boiling water - beat again till very stiff

Add baking powder - beat till mixed in 

Add vanilla essence and beat for the last time

Butter a baking tray and sprinkle cake flour over the bottom. Spread evenly.

Place spoonfuls of meringue on tray leaving spaces between each for expansion.

Bake in a cool  oven for +- two hours at 150 degrees F (remember not centigrade ..far too hot)

remember to wait till they are cool enough to lift off baking tray with a spatula. A steel thin one will do!

Assemble your tower after the meringues are cool. Any ornamental plate can be used.

Cut some strawberries in half and place them here and there, as seen in my photo. Leave  a few whole, for decoration with green hull. 

Remember to wash them thoroughly in cold water so there is no grit left on them, from the farm! Remove the greenery.

Add chocolate balls to bring some more flavour and celebration to your meringue tower.

Enjoy!

     Thanks @alexlocal for logo

Credit - my own photography and art collage.

Recipe of meringue from old recipe book from my family