Sweet Meringue Sticks

Hello everyone!

In times where everyone stays at home for a long time, the kitchen stays the most visited place in your home. As for me, the kitchen is not only that place where everyone having breakfast, lunch, and dinner, it's also a creative place. I'm always trying to engage children in any creative process, but in the kitchen, there is nothing more attractive for kids as creating sweets.

As many of us know, children like almost anything, that is on sticks. In our case, even the stick will be edible. So, in this instructable, we'll be making unusually shaped meringue sticks. Maybe there is more common name for such kind of sweets, hope that photos will help you to understand. 😊

• egg whites and sugar in proportion 1:2 (if you took 50g egg whites, you'll need 100g of sugar)
• pinch of lemon acid or 1/2 tsp lemon juice
• sweet stick snacks
• assorted funfetti
• chocolate (optional)
• water-soluble dye (optional)

Mix in the bowl sugar, egg whites, and lemon acid. Put the mixture on the water bath, continuously mix until everything appears to be a syrup. You can take a drop of mixture between your fingertips and check that there are no grains of sugar left.

Note: Please, do not heat the mixture a very long time to avoid the situation when egg whites will cure (temperature should be lower than 60˚C).

Take off the bowl from the water bath, wipe it. Start whipping the mixture from the low to high speed. You have to whip the mixture until hard peaks. Once the meringue is done, you can add water-soluble dye and mix it, you'll get colored meringue.

In this step, we have to insert the any shaped piping tip into the piping bag. Fill the piping bag with meringue and use it to stick the baking paper to the baking sheet.

Please check the photos for the reference.

Preheat the oven to the 80˚C in convection mode.

Insert the sweet stick into the piping bag. When you start pushing on the piping bag and meringue start to extrude, you'll need to carefully hold the stick and slowly pull it out from the bag with meringue around the stick. When the stick is done, put it on the baking sheet.

In case of the process is not wel understandable, you can check the attached photos.

When all sticks are placed on the baking sheet, you can ask your kids to decorate sweets with funfetti.

Meringues have to be dried in the 80˚C for 2 hours. Do not open the oven after 2 hours. Oven have to cool down with all sweets.

Please note, that if you open the oven when it's hot, the surface of the meringue will be covered with cracks.

After the drying and cooling process is done, you can cover tips or whole your sticks with chocolate.

To reach this, you have to melt some chocolate and dip the sticks into it.

When sticks are done, they have to be very crispy and could be stored in a zip lock bag or plastic container for about 1 month in a dry place.

Thank you for reading!