Tuesdays with Dorie BWD: Meringue Snackers

April 28, 2026 at 9:09 pm | Posted in BWD, cookies & bars, general pastry, groups, other sweet, sweet things, tuesdays with dorie | Leave a comment
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Meringue “Snackers” is a funny name. I mean, I do like meringues, but it would never cross my mind to have one as a snack. Kind of like eating air. These big, swirly puffs are pretty to look at though. And you can do lots of things with them…even though I didn’t shape them into pavlovas, I’ll still probably take them from snacks to full-fledged dessert with some berries and cream.

I have some bright pink “raspberry juice powder” that I impulse bought not long ago, and thought I could fold some through the meringue to create a kind of rippled look. Well, that effect was totally lost, so I hit them with some extra powder when they came out of the oven. The powder is tart, so it plays off the meringue’s sugariness well. While I had these in the oven, I was also baking off some of the meringue as small disks to make the Little Marvels I skipped last summer. The two shapes bake and dry at different rates so I was doing a bit of oven juggle and who knows how long these were actually in there for. I took my snackers out when they felt firm, were a bit cracked and peeled off the parchment with no problem. They never got completely dry inside, so they have some chew in the middle, but do I think that’s nicer than a hard meringue.

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