In honor of St. Patrick’s Day, we have a fun, pretty easy recipe for you. This St. Patrick’s Day Green Meringue Drop Recipe only has 3 ingredients, 5 if you add color and flavoring.

We looked at several different recipes and decided on the Italian Meringue style. From our research, we found that Italian Meringue is supposed to be the most stable of the meringues. This one does not need to be cooked and will hold its shape well.

Yes, we know, you do not cook raw eggs. But it seems the hot sugar mixture will “cook” the egg whites so there is no danger.

This kind of Meringue can be used with a pipping bag for decorating baked goods or used by itself, as we have done.

This meringue works best when you double the amount of sugar in egg white. If you want a larger batch, just tweak the recipe to match the ratio.

There are several other meringue recipes. Some call for cream of tartar, while others use lemon juice or vinegar as the acid to “cook” the egg whites. But the processes are all pretty similar.

Again, this meringue does not need to be cooked but most of the other recipes will call for cooking the meringues before eating.

To make your St. Patrick’s Day Green Meringue Drop Recipe

2 large egg whites (approx 1/3 of a cup)

1/2 cup of sugar

50 ml water (approx 1/5 of a cup)

food coloring and flavoring are optional but do make for a fun treat

1. In a boiler on the stovetop, combine the water and sugar. Stir to melt and mix. You will need a candy thermometer to monitor the temp of the mix. Let it get to 120 degrees and then turn it off.

This is the very old, family candy thermometer.  It has been in the family for at least three generations now, maybe four.

Let the sugar and water mixture heat to 120 degrees then turn off the heat.  There is no need to boil it.

We started the egg whites beating and the sugar water mix heating at the same time, so they were ready just about the same time. This is handy so there is no lag time between the two. And you do not have to worry about re-heating or over-beating.

2. In the mixer or with a hand mixer start to whip the egg whites.

Make sure the egg whites are clean, with no yokes, the yoke will mess up the mix and it will not turn out right. If you do not know what this means, it is simple. You crack the egg and separate the yokes from the whites. You keep the whites for the meringue. Do not use the egg yokes in the meringue.

3. Do not overwhip the egg whites at this time. Beat them just until they start to foam and froth.

4. Slowly add the hot sugar water to the egg whites. Be sure to whip on high. This will take the longest. You will want to whip until the mixture has cooled and hard peaks form.

If you will slowly add the mix to the egg whites and let it slide down the side of the mixing bowl, this will help. It will let the mix cool a bit before it gets to the egg whites and it will keep the mix from splashing out of the bowl.

5. You can add coloring or flavor if you want. Just be sure to give it a good whip after you add the flavor or color.

We added a splash of vanilla to one of our meringue batches and peppermint to the other.

6. On a baking sheet with parchment paper, drop mix into drops.

You can use a pipping bag or drop by hand.

We use spoons to drop the meringue similar to dropping cookies. We have a hard time controlling the pipping bag.

7. We put our meringue drops into the fridge to stiffen up but you can use the immediately if you want.

We have noticed that the meringue drops that we added flavoring to did get a bit “wet and weepy”. But they eat just fine. Meringue that has a special flavor added may be best if used to decorate baking goods rather than eaten as candy drops.

The meringues will last well for a few hours up to overnight but you will want to use them as soon as you can. They will start to get gooey and weepy if you leave them in the fridge for several days.

The melting of the sugar in the water on the stovetop only took a few minutes.

It took approximately 45 min to “whip” the egg whites into meringue.

There you have a St. Patrick’s Day Green Meringue Drop Recipe that is minimal ingredients is easy to make and takes less than one hour.

We hope you have enjoyed this talk on St. Patrick’s Day Green Meringue Drop Recipe. Try it out and see how easy it really is to do for yourself. This is a very impressive dessert. It looks all fancy but really is simple to do. Show off your “cooking” skills at your next get-together and impress them with this St. Patrick’s Day Green Meringue Drop Recipe.

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