"lemon meringue bars! "
Lemon Meringue Bars
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Recipe Intro From pennyflood
This modern dessert by @pennyflood is fantastic! She comes up with some amazingly creative ideas and how fun is this one for a dinner party? The 100 dime-sized swirls make the classic lemon meringue a WOW dish for your guests! Although not necessary, you’ve got to love that Penny, who finished hers off with a blow torch. Girl after mine heart.
I used this recipe for the lemon bars, and added a simple Swiss meringue on top ( that I toasted with a torch).
For the meringue:
1/2 cup egg whites
1 cup sugar
Pinch of salt
1 Fill medium saucepan one quarter full with water. Set the saucepan over medium heat, and bring water to a simmer.
2 Combine egg whites, sugar, and salt in the heatproof bowl of an electric mixer, and place over saucepan. Whisk constantly until sugar is dissolved and whites are warm to the touch.
3 Transfer bowl to electric mixer fitted with the whisk attachment, and whip, starting on low speed, gradually increasing to high until stiff, glossy peaks form, about 10 minutes. Spoon meringue into a piping bag fitted with a round tip. Pipe small rounds all over lemon bars to cover completely.
Using a kitchen torch, toast meringue until golden brown.