Tie Dyed Meringues and a Award :)

Raise your hand if you were like me as a kid and ate only the marshmallows from your bowl of Lucky Charms-  I considered it a game I would either A. eat all the "yucky" toasted cereal first so what was left it my bowl were the glorious sugary marshmallows. or B. Fish around for the just the marshmallows and leave behind the toasted cereal and not eat any of it.
I dare say that these meringues remind me of Lucky Charms marshmallows. I was really surprised and impressed how well these meringues not only cooked in the oven but tasted so great and reminiscent of a favorite childhood cereal.  Plus I just had fun with the colors and wanted to go more with an Easter palate today.

Tie Dyed Meringues

Adapted from Women's World Magazine (April 2, 2012 issue)

Bake Time: 45 Minutues

Cool Time: 1 Hour

Ingredients

4 Egg Whites at room temp (Mine were straight from the fridge and still worked)

1/2 teaspoon Cream of Tartar

1 Cup Sugar

1 teaspoon Vanilla

and food coloring 

Directions

Set oven to 225F Lined 2 cookie sheets with foil and spray with cooking spray and set aside

Beat 4 egg whites on medium speed until frothy.  Add your cream of tartar and beat till soft peaks form.  Add 1 cup of sugar, 1 Tbs. at a time, beat until stiff peaks form. add your vanilla and beat until combined.  

To do the tie dyed effect, transfer your mixture evenly into three separate bowls and add a couple drops of food coloring and mix well with a whisk (clean after mixing each bowl)

using a pastry bag or zip lock bag with a star piped fitting, Place about two spoonfuls of each different color into the bag. I would put the blue on the left side of the bag and the pink in the middle and do the purple more towards the right side. 

Pipe about 1 inch round mounds onto the foil lined cookie sheets

Bake for 45 minutes. Turn off oven and cool in oven for 1 hour. 

and Enjoy some "Lucky Charms" Marshmallows ;)

I also have to say Thank you to the lovely Kit from I-Lost in Austen. I woke up to the best news today. She had passed on the Liebster Award to me :)  I gotta say I was so excited and genuinely surprised. Thank you Kit for thinking of me and for makin my weekend awesome :)

What is the Liebster Blog Award

Liebster is German for "Dearest" The award is given to inspirational bloggers with less than 200 followers. Its a great way to showcase other bloggers who have just started and bring some attention to  all the other wonderful blogs out there. 

Only Rules

Pass it on to 5 other Bloggers :)

So I am delighted to pass on the Liebster Award to

1. Tess from Slow Cooking Kitchen

2. Richard from What's Cooking at Richard's?

3. Kaitlin from The Garden Grazer

4. Annie from What's Annie Making

5. Aysha from A Life of Flavor