Basic Vegan Meringue

Just your basic meringue, but Vegan. Tastes the same. Easy to make.

Prep time: 20 mins

Cook time: 70 mins

Oven Temp: 110ºC

Ingredients:

1/2 Cup of water from tin of Chickpeas (Aquafaba)

1/2 teaspoon of white vinegar

1 teaspoon of vanilla essence

1/2 tsp vanilla bean paste

3/4 caster sugar

Method:

1. Preheat Oven...duh!

2. Place Aquafaba (that's the chickpea water, it's not gross, you're gross!), vinegar, vanilla essence into a bowl and mix with electric beaters until stiff peaks are formed. (This can take up to 15 mins, 7 mins for me....but I'm pretty good)

3. Begin the glorious process of adding the sugar one tablespoon at a time, whilst beating. Also beat in vanilla paste if you haven't already....if you have, it's probably fine, I don't know, I never make that mistake.

4. Pipe mixture onto lined trays. I normally just shove it into a ziplock bag and cute the corner off with scissors.

5. Put the tray into the oven and wait patiently until they feel hard and shell-like. Not earlier, you greedy Augustus Gloop.

6. Once they're out of the oven let them cool and do what you want with them...I generally eat them.