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David Murphy

Santa Claus Meringues

Adorable and easy Santa Claus Meringues combine egg whites, sugar, and food coloring for a festive sweet treat everyone will love!
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Prep Time 45 minutes
Cook Time 1 hour 15 minutes
Additional Time 2 hours
Total Time 4 hours

Ingredients
  

  • 3 egg whites
  • 6 oz sugar
  • Red food coloring water based gel
  • Black food coloring water based gel
  • Pink food coloring water based gel

Instructions
 

  1. Preheat the oven to 100C (215F). 
  2. Fill a medium pot with at least 1 1/2 inches of water, wait until it boils, then reduce the heat  letting the water simmering gently.  
  3. Combine egg whites and sugar in a clean and heat proof bowl.  
  4. Set over steaming water, stirring and scraping constantly using a flexible spatula, until egg whites  hold steady at 175°F (79°C), between 8 and 10 minutes. 
  5. Take it off the heat, using an electric mixer whisk until it cools down and gets glossy for 8-10  minutes.  
  6. You can also transfer to a stand mixer fitted with a whisk attachment and whip at high speed until  meringue is glossy. 
  7. Prepare red, black, very pale pink (for the body parts) meringue. 
  8. Red and pale pink meringue mixture should have a large piping tip. ( no.10)  • Prepare 3 piping bags (pale pink, black and white) without piping tips ( pale pink again for the  nose and ears) 
  9. Pipe little santa claus onto the baking sheet following the steps in the pictures.  • Start with a white circle, pipe red body part in the circle.  
  10. Continue with pale pink meringue, pipe the santa claus’ head.  
  11. Using white meringue, pipe buttons and mustache. 
  12. In 4th step using pale pink, pipe nose and ears. With black meringue add the eyes.  • As the last step make the hat.  
  13. Bake for 1 hour and 15 minutes at 215F.  
  14. Turn off oven and let cookies cool inside oven until crisp, 2 hours.

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