Halloween Themed Meringue Kisses tower

I love anything Meringue, and these Meringue kisses are pure joy! They are crispy on the outside soft on the inside and look as good as they taste. You can customize them and the possibilities are endless. This Meringue tower is a real beauty!

There is enough meringue in this recipe so I piped some striped kisses, striped star swirls, white kisses with sprinkles and plain white ones that I painted with gold luster dust. The combination of these on the tower came together very nicely.

The cookies can be served as is but these Meringue towers are so much fun to put together. They add some height to the table and are just stunning!

Total Time:

• Prep time 20 mins

• Baking time 60 mins

• Cooling time 60 mins

• assembly 20 mins

• Total time 2hr 40 mins

Equipment:

• Baking sheets

• Parchment paper

• 4 piping bags

• 2 round piping tips, 1 star tip

• Paint brushes

• 8 - 10 inch high Styrofoam cone

• Pretty paper to cover the cone

Ingredients:

Meringue

• 200 g egg whites

• 400 g caster sugar

• 1 tsp Vanilla Extract

Royal Icing

• 230 g Confectioners sugar

• 2 Tbsp Meringue Powder

• 40 ml water

• Gold Sprinkles

• Candy Googly eyes

• Red and Black Food Colors

METHOD:

• Wrap cone with paper and place it on your serving dish

• Preheat oven to 215 F

• Fit 2 Piping bags with big round nozzles and 1 with a star tip. Set aside

• Prepare Royal icing first. Sift the Confectioners sugar, add the meringue powder and start stirring on low in a mixer

• Add the water slowly and mix till fluffy

• Add few drops of water to loosen it, (don’t make it too runny)

• Put in a piping bag and set aside. Before using you can just snip off the tip of the bag with scissors

• Make meringue

• Whip up egg whites gradually add sugar and whisk on high till glossy and stiff

• Prepare your Piping bag fitted with round tip. Paint 4 straight lines on the inside with the gel colors. Alternating red and black

• Carefully add the Meringue to the bag and pipe kisses on a baking tray lined with parchment paper. Hold the bag straight and a little away from the sheet, apply pressure, then stop and pull away, you will have a perfect kiss!

• Paint the bag fitted with the star nozzle in the same way, pipe some swirls on the tray and add googly eyes to them

• Just add meringue to the 3rd bag fitted with the round tip and pipe plain kisses. Add sprinkles to half of them and leave the rest plain

• Bake everything at 215F for 15 mins and then lower the oven to 200F and bake for 45 mins. Let them cool completely in the oven

• Mix some Gold luster dust with lemon extract and paint the plain white kisses

• Pipe some royal icing on the back of the kisses and attach to cone. Hold in place for a few seconds and then move on the next. Start at the bottom and make your way up all around

Enjoy!

Some helpful tips:

• Add the first layer of kisses at the bottom, let them dry for a few minutes and then do the next one