Meringues

I have always been told there is an art to making these. You need to get the inside soft and chewy and the outside hard and crunchy.

I took a few recipes and modified them....for a first try and it worked perfectly!

Here's how I did it:

Ingredients:
4 Egg whites
115g Castor Sugar
115g Icing sugar
1 Tbsp Vinegar

Method:
Place a sheet of wax paper of a baking sheet. Preheat oven to 160 degree celsius.
Whisk egg whites and vinegar together until stiff. Add caster sugur 1 Tbsp at a time stirring after each addition. Add Icing sugar about 1/3 at a time folding in and stirring until no powder remains.

Spoon out mixture onto wax paper and bake for about 1 hour...make sure your tray is in the top section of the oven or it burns the undersides. Once the merigues are solid to the light tap. Switch off oven and leave to cool inside the oven for a further hour.

Remove and enjoy!

Chocolate Cake

I'm a vanilla cake personally, but since Barry and Rauen have been craving a chocolate fix here's my chocolate cake recipe. It makes a Duble or triple layer cake!

Ingredients:
2 Cups flour
3/4 Cup Cocoa
1 1/2 tsp Baking powder
Pinch of salt
1 Cup milk
1 tsp Vanilla essence
2 Cups of sugar
1/2 Cup of oil
1 Cup of Boiling water
2 Eggs

Method:
Grease cake pans. Preheat oven to 180 degrees C. Place dry ingredients in a bowl. Add eggs, vanilla essence and oil then mix. Add milk then mix again and finally add boiling water and stir until you get a smooth consistency.

Pour mixture into cake tins, don't fill the tins more than 1/2 way or they with spill over.
Bake for 30 minutes or until a knife comes out smoothly.

Ice with butter icing:
2 Tbsp Butter
1 tsp Vanilla essence
2 Tbsp Cocoa
1 1/2 Cups of icing sugar

Mix ingredients together until you get a smooth icing.

Ice cake and serve.