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Pavlova Recipe

Mini PavlovasIn Year 2 this week we have been enjoying ourselves by making pavlova.

Here is the recipe if you would like to try it with the children at home.

 

 

 

 

Mini Pavlovas by Nigella Lawson

Ingredients

Makes: 18 mini pavs

Metric Cups

8 large egg whites

1 pinch of salt

500 grams caster sugar

4 teaspoons cornflour

1 scant teaspoon vanilla extract

2 teaspoons white wine vinegar

750 millilitres whipping cream (whipped)

750 grams blackberries (or see intro)

750 grams raspberries (or see intro)

1 sprinkling of icing sugar (for dusting)

Method

You will need 3 baking sheets, lined with parchment.

  1. Preheat the oven to 180ÂșC/160ÂșC Fan/gas mark 4/350ÂșF.
  2. Whisk the egg whites with the salt until they’re holding firm peaks but are not stiff. Gently add in the sugar, spoonful after spoonful, still beating, until you’ve got a bowl full of gleaming, satiny, snowy meringue. Sprinkle the cornflour, a few drops of vanilla and the vinegar on top and fold in to combine.
  3. Draw 6 circles of approximately 10cm / 4 inch circles (using a pint glass as a guide, if this helps) on each of the parchment-lined sheets.
  4. Spoon the meringue onto the baking parchment into the delineated circles, and spread and smooth to fill. You want to make the meringue slightly higher at the rims, or just use the back of the spoon to make an indentation in the centre to hold the cream and fruit later.
  5. Put into the oven, turn it down to 150ÂșC/130ÂșC Fan/gas mark 2/300ÂșF, and bake for 30 minutes. Turn the oven off and leave them in for another 30 minutes, then take out of the oven to cool. I just transfer them, on their baking parchment, to wire racks.
  6. When you want to assemble them, dollop cream into the indentation, and smooth it with the back of a spoon, leaving the odd peak. Place, one by one, a few blackberries and a few raspberries so that they look well filled but not crammed. Dust with icing sugar.
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