Meringues

So, I thought I'd start off with Meringues, one of my favorite sweet snacks. They're super easy to make and oh so yummy!

Ingredients
4 eggs at room temperature
1 cup of caster sugar
2tsp cornflour
1tsp white vinegar
food coloring/sprinkles (if you want)

1. Preheat oven to 210°F and grease a baking tray

2. Separate the whites from the yolks of the eggs, place the whites in a dry bowl. You can either throw away the yolks or use 'em for something else (I'm usually hungry after all of the baking so I make an omelette with them, with a little bit of milk to compensate for the whites)

3. Use and electric beater to whisk the whites till soft peaks form

4. Start adding the sugar gradually in small amounts (4 or 5 additions) until the mixture is thick and glossy, and all the sugar is dissolved. You should get long trailing peaks when you lift your beater out of the mixture.

5. Now add the cornflour and the vinegar and whisk just till combined

6. You can either make little swirly shaped meringues (in the picture) or you can use a teaspoon to drop them onto the baking tray. For the swirly meringues put the mixture in a pipping bag fitted with a star shaped nozzle. Pipe little rounds and lift the nozzle gently for the tips.
Now if you choose to make different coloured meringues you can add a few drops of food colouring to the mixture before you pipe them out and then afterwards you may add some sprinkles.
You can make the meringues as big as a one dollar coin, they don't have to be spaced too far apart since they don't expand

7. Bake the meringues for approximately 130mins. For the ones I made they only needed little less than 110mins since they were quite small. The more time you bake them the more crisp, and the less time you bake them the more chewier.

Tips: Try to avoid making meringues on hot humid days as the mixture doesn't really turn out that great.
- When that happened to me, they look more like flat cookies that meringues, they still tasted as good, but no one wanted to eat them.