Best 8 Meringue Hearts Recipes

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Indulge your sweet cravings with a delightful journey into the world of meringue hearts, a culinary symphony of delicate and airy confections. These charming treats not only capture the eye with their heart-shaped elegance but also tantalize the taste buds with their ethereal texture and symphony of flavors.

From the classic French meringue hearts, crafted with whipped egg whites and sugar, to the decadent chocolate-dipped meringue hearts, each recipe promises a unique taste experience. Learn how to create these delightful treats with our step-by-step instructions, tips, and tricks. Discover the art of achieving the perfect meringue consistency, from stiff peaks to glossy smoothness. Explore the endless possibilities of flavor combinations, from zesty lemon to rich coffee, and create meringue hearts that are as visually stunning as they are delicious.

Let's cook with our recipes!

MARBLED MERINGUE HEARTS



Marbled Meringue Hearts image

Pretty pastel cookies are a fun way to brighten any special occasion. Replace the vanilla with a different extract for a change of flavor. -Laurie Herr, Westford, Vermont

Provided by Taste of Home

Categories     Desserts

Time 45m

Yield about 2 dozen.

Number Of Ingredients 5

3 large egg whites
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/4 teaspoon cream of tartar
3/4 cup sugar
Red food coloring

Steps:

  • Place egg whites in a large bowl; let stand at room temperature for 30 minutes. Line baking sheets with parchment., Preheat oven to 200°. Add vanilla and cream of tartar to egg whites; beat on medium speed until soft peaks form. Gradually beat in sugar, 1 tablespoon at a time, on high until stiff peaks form. Remove 1/4 cup and tint pink. Lightly swirl pink mixture into remaining meringue. Fill pastry bag with meringue. Pipe 2-in. heart shapes 2 in. apart onto prepared baking sheets. , Bake until set and dry, about 20 minutes. Turn oven off; leave meringues in oven until oven has completely cooled. Store in an airtight container.

Nutrition Facts : Calories 27 calories, Fat 0 fat (0 saturated fat), Cholesterol 0 cholesterol, Sodium 7mg sodium, Carbohydrate 6g carbohydrate (6g sugars, Fiber 0 fiber), Protein 0 protein.

RASPBERRY MERINGUE HEARTS



Raspberry Meringue Hearts image

Here's a lovely dessert that your guests will think is almost too pretty to eat! I love the graceful heart shape of the raspberry meringue. -Mary Lou Wayman, Salt Lake City, Utah

Provided by Taste of Home

Categories     Desserts

Time 1h5m

Yield 6 servings.

Number Of Ingredients 13

3 large egg whites
1/4 teaspoon cream of tartar
Dash salt
1 cup sugar
1/3 cup finely chopped almonds, toasted
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
FILLING:
3 cups fresh or frozen unsweetened raspberries, thawed
1 teaspoon cornstarch
1/2 cup seedless raspberry jam
3 cups raspberry or lemon sorbet
1/3 cup sliced almonds, toasted
Additional fresh raspberries, optional

Steps:

  • Place egg whites in a small mixing bowl; let stand at room temperature for 30 minutes. Beat egg whites, cream of tartar and salt on medium speed until soft peaks form. Add sugar, 1 tablespoon at a time, beating on high until stiff peaks form and sugar is dissolved. Fold in chopped almonds and vanilla. , Preheat oven to 300°. Drop meringue into 6 mounds on a parchment-lined baking sheet. Shape into 4-in. hearts with the back of a spoon, building up the edges slightly. Bake for 35 minutes. Turn oven off; leave meringues in the oven for 1 to 1-1/2 hours. , For filling, place raspberries in a food processor. Cover and process until blended. Strain and discard seeds. In a small saucepan, combine the cornstarch, pureed raspberries and jam until smooth. Bring to a boil over medium heat, stirring constantly. Cook and stir for 1 minute or until thickened. Cool. , To serve, spoon sauce into meringue hearts. Place scoop of sorbet on top. Sprinkle with sliced almonds. Garnish with fresh raspberries if desired.

Nutrition Facts : Calories 423 calories, Fat 7g fat (0 saturated fat), Cholesterol 0 cholesterol, Sodium 53mg sodium, Carbohydrate 89g carbohydrate (78g sugars, Fiber 6g fiber), Protein 5g protein.

RASPBERRY FONDUE WITH MERINGUE CLOUD HEARTS



Raspberry Fondue with Meringue Cloud Hearts image

Provided by Sandra Lee

Categories     dessert

Time 1h20m

Yield 2 1/2 cups

Number Of Ingredients 10

3/4 cup heavy cream
1 (12-ounce) bag premier white morsels
2/3 cup seedless raspberry jam
1/4 cup white chocolate liqueur
Meringue Cloud Hearts, recipe follows
2 egg whites, at room temperature
1/8 teaspoon cream of tartar
Pinch salt
1/2 cup sugar
Red and yellow food coloring

Steps:

  • Heat cream in a heavy medium saucepan over medium heat until bubbles appear; remove from heat. Add white morsels and whisk until melted and smooth. Stir in jam and liqueur. Transfer mixture to a fondue pot. To keep fondue warm at the table for an extended period of time, place over a candle or canned heat burner. If eating immediately, serve in a decorative gravy boat. Serve with Meringue Cloud Hearts for dipping.
  • Preheat oven to 200 degrees F. Line 2 heavy large baking sheets with parchment paper.
  • Place egg whites in clean bowl of an electric mixer. Beat on medium speed until foamy. Add cream of tartar and increase speed to high. Continue beating until soft peaks form. Mix in salt. Gradually add sugar, 1 tablespoon at a time, beating until stiff peaks form, about 5 minutes. Quickly mix in food coloring, 1 drop at a time, until desired color is achieved.
  • Transfer meringue to a pastry bag fitted with the star tip. Pipe 2-inch-diameter heart-shape meringues onto prepared baking sheets, spacing evenly apart. Bake for 1 hour, or until dry and crispy when broken in half. Cool meringues completely on baking sheets. Store in airtight container at room temperature.

MERINGUE LOLLIPOP HEARTS



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Swiss meringue pipes like a dream and makes an ideal base for heart-shaped meringue pops. Valentine's Day always makes me think of chocolate, so I nestle a few chocolate chips inside each pop for a tasty surprise.

Provided by Dan Langan

Categories     dessert

Time 3h35m

Yield 12 pops

Number Of Ingredients 8

1 1/2 cups (300 grams) granulated sugar
6 large egg whites (200 grams)
1/4 teaspoon white vinegar
1/4 teaspoon fine salt
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Pink and red gel food color
Mini chocolate chips, optional
Sprinkles and sugar pearls, for decorating, optional

Steps:

  • Trace six 3-inch heart shapes in two rows on a 12-by-18-inch sheet of parchment. Repeat with a second sheet of parchment. Line 2 baking sheets with the parchment, pencil-side down, and set aside.
  • Combine the sugar and egg whites in a large heatproof bowl or the bowl of a stand mixer (make sure the bowl is very clean). Place an inch or two of water in the bottom of a medium saucepan and bring to a simmer. Place the bottom of the bowl over the simmering water, making sure the bowl does not touch the water. Whisk the egg whites and sugar together until the mixture becomes whiter, the sugar has dissolved and the mixture registers about 140 degrees F. This will take 3 to 4 minutes.
  • Place the bowl in a stand mixer fitted with the whisk attachment. Add the vinegar and
  • salt. Beat on medium-high speed until soft peaks form. Add the vanilla and continue beating until the mixture forms stiff peaks with tips that stand straight up. The meringue will gather in a mass around the whisk attachment when it is ready.
  • Transfer a third of the meringue to a small bowl to tint pink and a third to a separate small bowl to tint red. (Keep the remaining third white.) Add a small amount of gel food color to each bowl and whisk to incorporate. Transfer the meringue to piping bags with large tips; star tips and round tips work well.
  • Place 2 racks towards the center of the oven. Preheat the oven to 200 degrees F. Pipe about 1 tablespoon of meringue into the center of each heart and spread a bit with a small spoon. Sprinkle a few chocolate chips over the meringue if using. Place a paper straw or lollipop stick into the center of each meringue. Use the meringue in the pastry bags to pipe stars, swirls and rosettes to fill in the heart shapes. Aim to make the meringue hearts about 1/2 to 3/4 inch thick. Top with sprinkles, sugar pearls or more chocolate chips if desired.
  • Once piped, tap each baking sheet on the counter a couple of times. Place the pans on racks in the center of the oven and bake until the meringue is dried, about 2 hours (2 1/2 hours for thicker meringue); the appearance of the hearts won't change much as they bake. After 2 hours, turn off the oven and allow the meringues to cool inside the oven for 30 minutes. Remove from the oven and cool completely. Once the pans are cool to the touch, carefully lift the meringue pops off the pan by lifting the meringue gently (don't lift by the stick). Serve immediately or store up to 2 weeks in an airtight container.

PILLOWY MERINGUE HEARTS



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Brown-sugar meringue cookies are guaranteed to please. Pink food coloring causes one (marked with a ribbon) to blush. Heart-shape cutters provide adoring curves. Half of the meringues are flavored with orange zest; the other half are tinted pink and flavored with grapefruit zest.

Provided by Martha Stewart

Categories     Food & Cooking     Dessert & Treats Recipes     Cookie Recipes

Yield Makes about 1 Dozen

Number Of Ingredients 7

5 large egg whites
1 1/4 cups packed light-brown sugar
Pinch of cream of tartar
3/4 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
Finely grated zest of 1 orange
1 1/2 teaspoons finely grated grapefruit zest
Pink gel-paste food coloring

Steps:

  • Preheat oven to 225 degrees. Put egg whites, sugar, and cream of tartar into the heatproof bowl of an electric mixer set over a pan of simmering water.Whisk until mixture is warm and sugar has dissolved.
  • Attach bowl to mixer fitted with the whisk attachment. Starting on low speed and gradually increasing to high, beat until stiff, glossy peaks form, about 5 minutes. Beat in vanilla.
  • Transfer half the meringue to another bowl. Using a rubber spatula, stir orange zest into 1 bowl of meringue. Stir grapefruit zest and pink food coloring into remaining meringue.
  • Place a 3 1/4-by-3 1/2-inch heart-shape cutter in one corner of a parchment-lined baking sheet. Using a small spatula, fill heart with meringue; swirl. Push down edges of meringue with the spatula, and lift up cutter. Repeat, spacing meringue hearts 2 inches apart on baking sheets.
  • Bake until meringues are firm and can be removed easily from parchment paper, 2 1/2 to 3 hours. Meringues can be stored between layers of parchment paper in an airtight container at room temperature up to 3 days.

MERINGUE HEARTS



Meringue Hearts image

Decorate our Chocolate Ganache Heart Tartlets with these hearts.

Provided by Martha Stewart

Categories     Food & Cooking     Dessert & Treats Recipes

Yield Makes about 6 dozen

Number Of Ingredients 4

2 large egg whites, room temperature
1/2 cup sugar
Pinch of cream of tartar
Gel-paste food coloring, in assorted colors

Steps:

  • Preheat oven to 175 degrees. Place egg whites, sugar, and cream of tartar in a heatproof mixer bowl set over a pan of simmering water. Whisk until sugar dissolves, about 2 minutes. Transfer to a mixer, and beat with mixer on medium-high speed until stiff, glossy peaks form, about 7 minutes. Divide meringue into batches, and tint each with food coloring as desired. Transfer to pastry bags fitted with medium open star tips. Pipe hearts (1/2 to 1 inch each) onto parchment-lined baking sheets. Bake for 2 hours. Turn oven off, and let meringues stand in oven for 8 hours (or overnight).

MERINGUE HEARTS WITH MINT ICE CREAM AND FUDGE SAUCE



Meringue Hearts with Mint Ice Cream and Fudge Sauce image

Categories     Mixer     Chocolate     Egg     Dessert     Freeze/Chill     Valentine's Day     Frozen Dessert     Summer     Bon Appétit     Vegetarian     Pescatarian     Wheat/Gluten-Free     Peanut Free     Tree Nut Free     Soy Free     Kosher

Yield Serves 6

Number Of Ingredients 14

Sauce
6 tablespoons (3/4 stick) unsalted butter
1/4 cup dark corn syrup
5 ounces imported bittersweet chocolate (not unsweetened) or semisweet chocolate, chopped
1/4 cup powdered sugar, sifted
2 tablespoons whipping cream
Meringues
4 large egg whites
1 cup sugar
2 pints vanilla ice cream, softened slightly
1/2 cup finely crushed hard peppermint candies
1/8 teaspoon peppermint extract
Powdered sugar
Coarsely chopped hard peppermint candies

Steps:

  • For sauce:
  • Melt butter with corn syrup in heavy small saucepan over medium-low heat, stirring occasionally. Add chocolate, sugar and cream. Whisk until chocolate melts and sugar dissolves. (Can be made 1 week ahead. Cover; chill.)
  • For Meringues:
  • Preheat oven to 225°F. Line 2 baking sheets with foil; butter foil. Place 3 3/4-inch heart-shaped cookie cutter on foil-lined sheet. Using electric mixer, beat whites in large bowl to soft peaks. Gradually add 1 cup sugar; continuing beating until stiff and shiny. Spoon 1/4 cup meringue inside cookie cutter on sheet. Using back of spoon spread meringue evenly. Lift up cookie cutter; place on another section of foil-lined sheet. Repeat with remaining meringue, forming 6 hearts on each sheet.
  • Bake meringues until crisp and dry, about 1 hour. Cool meringues on sheets 10 minutes. Peel meringues off foil. (Can be made 1 day ahead. Cool completely. Store airtight at room temperature.)
  • Mix ice cream, 1/2 cup crushed peppermint candy and extract in medium bowl. Cover and freeze until almost semi-firm, about 2 hours.
  • Place meringues flat side up on baking sheet and freeze 15 minutes. Spoon 1/2 cup ice cream atop 1 meringue. Top with another meringue, flat side up. Press gently to flatten, forming sandwich. Run spatula around sides of ice cream to even sides. Freeze. Repeat with remaining meringues and ice cream. Cover and freeze at least 1 hour and up to 6 hours.
  • Stir sauce over medium-low heat just until warm. Sift powdered sugar over tops of meringues, coating completely. Place on plates. Spoon sauce around. Sprinkle chopped candy over sauce.

WHOOPIE HEARTS WITH RASPBERRY MERINGUE



Whoopie Hearts with Raspberry Meringue image

When piped into a V shape, this chocolaty batter bakes into a heart for a Valentine's Day treat.

Provided by Martha Stewart

Categories     Food & Cooking     Dessert & Treats Recipes     Cookie Recipes

Number Of Ingredients 3

Whoopie Pies
Swiss Meringue
3/4 cup frozen raspberries

Steps:

  • Pour whoopie-pie batter into a gallon-size resealable plastic bag (work in two batches). Snip a 1/2-inch hole in one corner of bag. Pipe Vs onto parchment-lined baking sheets, spaced 2 inches apart. Bake and cool. Thaw frozen raspberries in a sieve set over a bowl; press to extract 1/4 cup juice. Beat meringue into stiff, glossy peaks, then stir in juice. Transfer to another gallon-size resealable plastic bag. Snip a 1/2-inch hole in one corner. Pipe filling onto flat sides of half of cookies, then sandwich with remaining cookies.

Tips:

  • Use fresh egg whites: Older egg whites won't whip up as stiffly, so make sure to use eggs that are as fresh as possible.
  • Beat the egg whites gradually: Start on low speed and gradually increase the speed as the egg whites start to foam. This will help prevent the egg whites from becoming grainy.
  • Don't overbeat the egg whites: Overbeaten egg whites will become dry and crumbly. Beat the egg whites just until they reach stiff peaks, which means that they hold their shape when you lift the beaters out of the bowl.
  • Use a clean bowl and beaters: Any grease or residue on the bowl or beaters can prevent the egg whites from whipping up properly. Make sure to wash the bowl and beaters thoroughly before using them.
  • Add sugar gradually: Add the sugar to the egg whites gradually, one tablespoon at a time. This will help prevent the egg whites from becoming grainy.
  • Bake the meringue at a low temperature: Meringue is delicate, so it's important to bake it at a low temperature. The ideal temperature for baking meringue is 200 degrees Fahrenheit.
  • Don't open the oven door while the meringue is baking: Opening the oven door will cause the temperature to drop, which can cause the meringue to collapse.

Conclusion:

Meringue hearts are a delicious and festive treat that are perfect for any occasion. With a little care and attention, you can easily make perfect meringue hearts at home. Just follow the tips above and you'll be sure to impress your friends and family with your culinary skills.

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