mothwing | Meringues

Lately, increased stress levels have unfortunately been wont to translate into increased housework and baking activity.

This week, I have already baked four trays of cookies and tried out meringues twice. The first load turned out globs of brownish stuff which were sticky at the bottom because I baked them for too short a time at the wrong temperature and did not get the egg white stiff enough in the first place, the second batch were pretty decent.

The differences in texture still annoyed me. Some were as crunchy as they are supposed to be, some where sticky and chewy and it was impossible to eat them without having to brush your teeth immediately afterwards because they stuck to the teeth so badly. I'm also not really that good at shaping the things and kept getting the spoon stuck on the baking tray while trying to shape. These blotches will have to do for the time being.