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Meringue Christmas Trees on a Stick

Meringue Christmas Trees on a Stick are fun sweet Christmas finger foods, decorated as you like, to use as place cards or cake toppers.
Recipe Meringue Christmas Trees on a Stick
  • Difficulty Easy
  • Preparation 15 minutes
  • Cooking 1 hour and30 minutes
  • Servings for 4 people

Meringue Christmas Trees on a Stick are an easy, fun idea for making Christmas Treats that are ideal as little gifts for guests or as place cards during the holiday season. Very eye-catching, the Meringue Tree Recipe is truly simple: once you’ve whipped the egg whites with the sugar, all you have to do is shape these cute Meringue Trees in a few moments and decorate them however your imagination suggests.

We chose to make white and green Sweet Trees, simply by adding some food coloring, and for the decoration we’ll use colored sugar pearls, but, as we’ll see, there are lots of fun and tasty ways to dress up Meringue Christmas Trees: a step that even the little ones will certainly enjoy.

If you’re looking for more fun Meringue Recipes, try making the Halloween Meringue Ghosts, the Zefir Christmas Trees and, for a vegan option, the crisp Vegan Meringues. If, instead, you want to make more tasty Sweet Christmas Finger Foods, we recommend the Torrone Christmas Star Semifreddo, the Christmas Cupcakes, the Chocolate-Dipped Mandarins and the cute Santa’s Mitten Cookies.

Now let’s preheat the oven and get the electric mixer ready: today we’re serving fun, crunchy Meringue Christmas Trees on a Stick.

Ingredients for 4 people

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Method

  1. To make the Meringue Christmas Trees on a Stick, start by preheating the oven to 100 °C (210 °F). Meanwhile, put the egg whites in a large bowl and start whipping them with an electric mixer on high speed. When they start to turn white and foamy, add 1/3 of the granulated sugar and then, slowly, all of the powdered sugar. When the sugar is well incorporated and the meringue is firm, add the remaining granulated sugar as well, a little at a time, and keep beating until the meringue is very fluffy and glossy.
    Meringue Christmas Trees, step 1: whipping the egg whites with the sugar
  2. Divide the mixture between two bowls and add a couple of drops of green food coloring to one, stir, and add more if needed until you reach the shade you like. Then transfer the two mixtures to piping bags fitted with flat, smooth tips, arrange wooden skewers on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper, spacing them well apart, and start shaping the white and green meringue trees: leaving about 2 cm (3/4 in) of each wooden skewer free, pipe the meringue in a single ribbon that starts out wider at the base and gradually narrows as you move up toward the tip of the tree.
    Meringue Christmas Trees, step 2: piping the meringue onto wooden skewers
    Meringue Christmas Trees, step 2: white and green meringue trees on the baking sheet
  3. As soon as you’ve finished shaping your trees, decorate them with the sugar pearls and bake for about 1 to 1 1/2 hours, until the meringues are very crisp. Then take them out of the oven and let them cool on a wire rack, and your Meringue Christmas Trees on a Stick are ready to serve. Finally, remember to download our App with exclusive content and fewer ads!

Variations and Alternatives

If you like, you can flavor your Meringue Christmas Trees on a Stick with 1/2 vanilla bean and decorate them with candied fruit, silver dragées or star-shaped sprinkles. Alternatively, you can dip the base (the side that touched the parchment paper during baking) in melted dark chocolate.

Tips

To make sure your Meringue Christmas Trees on a Stick are actually done, just try lifting them off the parchment paper: if they come away easily without sticking and the underside feels crisp when you tap it, you can take them out of the oven.

Storage

Meringue Christmas Trees on a Stick keep at room temperature, in an airtight container, for up to 1 week.

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