Pavlova

[bron]

Pavlova:
serves 10:
Ingredients:
5 egg whites
4 drops of lemon or vinegar
pinch salt
2 spoons sugar
1 teaspoon cornflour
150g sugar
150g icing sugar
1/2 teaspoon of mix of 4 spices: clove, cinnamon, nutmeg & ginger


Preparation:
Preheat oven 150º
On greaseproof paper, draw a circle of 25cms.
Make the icing sugar first
Place butterfly over blades, add egg whites, vinegar/lemon, salt and 2 spoons sugar program 5 mins, speed 3 and 1/2.
In a bowl mix cornflour, spices and sugars and gently fold into the meringue. Place half the mixture and fill the circle drawn, and with the other half, spoon around the edge of circle making a volcano type shape. Place quickly in oven and after 10mins at 150º drop temp to 100º and bake for 1 hour. Switch off oven and leave in oven until cool with oven door slightly ajar. The meringue should be crispy outside and softish inside (mine was)
Fill with whipped cream and fresh fruit

Photos:

Tips/Hints:
When you remove from oven peel off the paper and place on dish or tray, as it will crack quite easily

[Thermomixer]

Thanks - is this from a Spanish source?  Sounds like my old recipe (pre-TMX days)

[bron]

From the THX book Reposteria y Pasteleria

[I Love Bimby!]

You little ripper Bron!  lol 
This is  "THE ONE"!

Now - what can I made for dinner (it's 9pm) with 13 egg yolks - ha ha ha!

Thank you so much for posting all these recipes.  I really appreciate it!
Obviously the egg whites just don't like the sugar being added into the TM bowl, but folded by hand.

[judydawn]

I Love Bimby, you can take a bow. You never gave up, wasted so many eggs and finally achieved your goal thanks to Bron. Through both your efforts, the rest of us now have a tried and true recipe.  Go you girls!!

[I Love Bimby!]

Thanks judydawn.
I think in the last week (for 2 different events) I have gone through about 80 egg whites (thankfully the first 50 were already seperated for me from the Epicurean Centre at work). And I would hate to think how much sugar - probably close to 2kgs!
However most of it was all used and consumed.
The majority was for a Bushfire Dinner/Fundraiser that we ran at work.  So the flops were just stacked with cream inbetween 

[bron]

I am so relieved, we made it at last! Congratulations!

[I Love Bimby!]

Bron, didn't even think about icecream - but thankfully only a couple of batches were thrown out.
Most of the flops were just stacked with cream inbetween 

I spoke with Janine last night and she was stunned at the rate of flops. So she gave me her recipe - apparently she's only ever had one flop and she puts that down to taking too long.  I'm a bit "pav'd out"   at the moment so won't be trying it this weekend but will post it at some stage.

The photo  below is of one batch!

Now for the loud cheer please (come on - 80 egg whites went into the lead up for this success...)   

[judydawn]

Oh, I Love Bimby they look just like pavlovas should look.  Well done   I am clapping like crazy here

[I Love Bimby!]

Thanks judydawn!  I can feel the love travelling through Cyberspace LOL 

Out of interest where are you based?

[judydawn]

I'm in Adelaide but wished I lived closer to you so that I could come and try those pavlovas and drink the BB wine with you

[bron]

Well done, thankgod we got there in the end! Congratulations! They look amazing!

[I Love Bimby!]

I'm in Adelaide but wished I lived closer to you so that I could come and try those pavlovas and drink the BB wine with you

I used to travel to Adelaide a bit for work - I used to look after the cork contracts.  But now I don't travel much.
I need some TMX Buddies close by so we can do that.  The closest friend who has one is an hour away and pregnant - so that counts her out for sharing some wine 

[vivacity]

My neighbour has asked me to do the dessert catering for her son's first communion next Sunday. I've been flicking through various forums searching for a recipe for desserts. Since I had egg whites left over from my hollandaise sauce, I tried out this pavlova recipe and the result is now in the oven.

It's almost obscene how easy this recipe is I couldn't believe that the result would be so perfect on the first try. I'm going to dollop whipped cream on this work of art  and then plonk on some luscious strawberries. This is only the trial run for Sunday, so "unfortunately" we're going to have to eat this ourselves and I'll make another two or three for Sunday.

Thanks for the recipe!

Update: My husband and our neighbour (whose son is having his first communion soon) were talking outside and I showed them the pavlova, so he knows what I'll be baking for the weekend. The pavlova didn't have a chance. Schwoops, a knife was grabbed from the kitchen and my wonderful dessert is now being inhaled. It was perfect, crispy on the outside, fluffy in the middle. I'll have to make about five for Sunday.

[Melicious]

Hi,
I was just wanting to clarify when you say "Make the icing sugar first" do you mean convert the 150g Sugar into icing sugar by blitzing it?
And if that's the case, under Ingredients is it just 150g sugar that you require or do you still require both 150g sugar and 150g icing sugar?

I'm new to baking 

Cheers,

Mel