{"id":7511,"date":"2021-03-09T15:13:04","date_gmt":"2021-03-09T20:13:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/?post_type=cp_recipe&p=7511"},"modified":"2021-03-14T19:19:03","modified_gmt":"2021-03-15T00:19:03","slug":"meringue-mushrooms","status":"publish","type":"cp_recipe","link":"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/?cp_recipe=meringue-mushrooms","title":{"rendered":"Meringue mushrooms"},"content":{"rendered":"

These are traditionally used to decorate yule logs, but are always popular in a basket by themselves.<\/h2>\n

Ingredients<\/h3>\n
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1<\/span> <\/span> Unbaked meringue recipe<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Directions<\/h3>\n
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You start with a basic meringue recipe, making sure it is very stiff.<\/p>\n

You then fill a pastry bag fitted with a medium sized round tip (1\/2″) and you pipe the stems by lifting the bag upwards away from the cookie sheet. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Once you have filled one cookie sheet with the stems, prepare a second one and pipe the caps. You can change the pastry bag tip for a bigger one (but not essential). You leave the pastry bag close to the cookie sheet and push out the meringue until you have a sphere of an appropriate size. Do not worry if you have a little pointy tip, you can smooth it out with a finger dipped in water.<\/p>\n

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After smoothing down the caps, you sprinkle stems and caps with cocoa powder. And bake (dry) them slowly as per the meringue recipe.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Once they are dry and cooled you are ready to assemble them. With a serrated knife cut the pointy end of the stems to make them flat.<\/p>\n

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You then melt 6 oz of semi-sweet chocolate and you “glue” the stems to the caps with the chocolate.<\/p>\n

Let them dry stem up in an egg carton.<\/p>\n

And you have a nice crop of mushrooms.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7540,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","recipe_category":[56,86],"class_list":["post-7511","cp_recipe","type-cp_recipe","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","cp_recipe_category-desserts","cp_recipe_category-cakes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/cooked_recipe\/7511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/cooked_recipe"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/cp_recipe"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7511"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cp_recipe_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Frecipe_category&post=7511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}