Pavlova
- 8 large egg whites
- 1 pinch of salt
- 500g caster sugar
- 4 tsp cornflour
- 2/3 tsp vanilla extract
- 2 teaspoons white wine vinegar
- 750 ml whipping cream (whipped)
- 750g blackberries
- 750g raspberries
Topping options:
- You can add other berries or swop out if you wish. Blueberries, gooseberries or sliced strawberries. Add mint leaves to cut the sweetness and for colour.
- Lemon curdle is also a great topping option as you can uses all the yolk of the egg you set aside for the Pavlova. These recipes complement each other.
- 1 sprinkling of icing sugar (for dusting)
Method
- Preheat the oven to 180ºC
- 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.
- Draw 6 circles of approximately 10cm circles on each of the parchment-lined sheets.
- 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.
- Put into the oven, turn it down to 150ºC, and bake for 30 minutes.
- Turn the oven off and leave them in for another 30 minutes,
- Take the meringues out of the oven to cool. Transfer them, on their baking parchment, to wire racks.
- 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.
