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Meringue Christmas Trees

Meringue Christmas Trees make a perfect sweet gift, or a decoration for your Christmas desserts and holiday tables.
Recipe Meringue Christmas Trees
  • Difficulty Medium
  • Preparation 20 minutes
  • Cooking 3 hours
  • Servings for 12 people

If you have let yourself be swept up by the festive air that is starting to fill the season, you will love these Meringue Christmas Trees. Crisp, bright green and decorated with sprinkles, they are ideal as a gift for your friends or as a decoration for your Christmas desserts. Arrange them, for example, on a simple 10-Minute Cake, dust with powdered sugar, and suddenly you will find yourself in a snowy forest.

To make the Meringue Christmas Trees you start with meringue , to which you add green food coloring. Then all you need is a pastry bag fitted with a star tip to make your wonderful Meringue Christmas Trees.

Other pretty, fun Christmas desserts include the Zefir Christmas Trees and the Gingerbread Cupcakes. Or try one of our 20 Christmas Dessert Recipes to Make with Kids.

Ingredients for 12 people

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Method

  1. To make the Meringue Christmas Trees, put the room-temperature egg whites in the bowl of a stand mixer together with the lemon juice and the green food coloring.
    Meringue Christmas Trees, step 1: egg whites, lemon juice and green coloring in a stand mixer bowl
  2. Start whipping, and when the mixture has quadrupled in volume, add the powdered sugar one tablespoon at a time. Let the mixer run until the sugar is completely absorbed (depending on the power of your stand mixer, this can take 10 to 20 minutes).
    Meringue Christmas Trees, step 2: green meringue whipped with powdered sugar
  3. Check that the meringue is ready: when you hold the whisk horizontally, the mixture left on it should form a peak that curls over like an eagle’s beak.
  4. Transfer the meringue to a pastry bag fitted with a star tip and pipe small mounds of the mixture directly onto a baking sheet lined with parchment paper (2 cm wide at the base and 4 to 5 cm tall). Decorate with sprinkles and bake at 85 °C (185 °F) for 3 hours.
    Meringue Christmas Trees, step 4: meringue trees piped onto parchment paper and decorated with sprinkles
  5. Then open the oven door slightly and let the trees cool completely inside before lifting them off the paper and using them in your recipe. Finally, remember to download our App with exclusive content and fewer ads!

Variations and Alternatives

Let your imagination run wild and make Meringue Christmas Trees in whatever colors you like best.

Tips

It’s better to use gel food coloring rather than powdered, because you only need a small amount to add color and it doesn’t affect the final flavor of the meringue.

Storage

Meringue Christmas Trees keep in a tin for over a month.

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