a meringue afternoon

My favourite home made desserts should always include meringue and some fresh tasty fruit, among other elements. One very good example is the one we had only a few weeks ago.

A lot of egg whites was a great way to get started, but perhaps not terribly exciting. The colourful component came from our own raspberries and strawberries, which we mashed together to make a quite nutritious sauce.

Once the oven was on we only had to introduce the meringue in order to make it a little crunchy. I'm not a big fun of dried meringues, so the interior had to be humid. This was a very fast step.

The top of the meringues was slightly brown, but not too much. We were almost ready to finish. 

While the oven was on a small pot of egg custard was cooking. A few mint leafs and hazelnuts we had picked earlier were going to be our topping and final  decoration. Everything else was waiting for us.