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Pecan toffee meringue with mulled pears

Ingredients

  1. Step 1 600ml mulled wine , ready made from a bottle
  2. Step 2 6 small, ripe, shapely pears , peeled , quartered and cored
  3. Step 3 50g golden caster sugar
  4. Step 4 225g golden caster sugar
  5. Step 5 1½ tsp cornflour
  6. Step 6 4 large egg whites
  7. Step 7 1½ tsp wine vinegar
  8. Step 8 50g pecan , roughly chopped
  9. Step 9 500g tub Greek yogurt
  10. Step 10 4 tbsp dulce de leche (we used Merchant Gourmet)
  11. Step 11 extra toasted pecans (optional)
Pecan toffee meringue with mulled pears
Calories: 390 Carbohydrate: 51 g Protein: 9 g Fat: 14 g
Cook time: 100 minutes Prep time: minutes Total time: 100 minutes Servings: 10

TAGS

Buffet Dessert Dinner Snack Supper Treat Australian Josh Eagleton 400 kcal or less Caramel Cornflour Dulce de leche Dulche de leche Egg white Egg white English For a crowd Greek yogurt Indulgent Main Make Ahead Merchant gormet Mulled wine nut Over an hour Pear Pear Pecan Pecan Sara Buenfeld

Directions

  1. Step 1 Put the wine, pears and sugar in a pan and simmer for 10 mins.
  2. Step 2 Heat oven to 160C/140C/gas 3. Draw a 25cm circle on a sheet of baking parchment, then put on a baking sheet. Stir 225g sugar and cornflour together in a jug. Whisk the egg whites until stiff, then whisk in the sugar mixture, a tbsp at a time, until thick and glossy.
  3. Step 3 Fold in vinegar and half the nuts, then pile mixture onto the circle, building up the edges to make a 'nest'. Scatter with rest of pecans then put in oven, turning the temperature down to 150C/fan 130C/gas 2. Bake for 1 hr, then turn oven off and cool inside for 1 hr.