failed no-fail meringues

I was so taken with Miss Marzie's beautiful pink meringues that I decided to whip up a batch myself.....after all the recipe said that they were easy to make...and I love a no fail recipe.
Yes, well.....

Instead of a plate of heavenly pink piles of goodness,I ended up with a plate of cute pink buttons.
I don't think it helped that I was cooking dinner for the girls while talking on the phone and mixing the meringues.
And I don't think that the fact that I forgot to add the 4 tablespoons of boiling water until halfway through whipping them up ,helped either.
Oh, and I was a little impatient with the whipping up bit and decided it look stiff and glossy enough. When I heaped the little mounds on the tray and then watched them flatten into pink puddles , I decided to scrape it all back into the bowl and keep on beating the mixture. Probably didn't help much either.It did in fact get stiffer and glossier but still refused to sit in little mounds.
I baked them anyway and really, they  tasted great!
Next time, I need to concentrate!
At least Miss Marzie can feel safe about her Queen of the Meringues title.

Did anyone pick up the hidden random fact about myself in yesterdays 'tagged" post? I have a pack of postcards for the first person who can work it out. I will give you the answer tomorrow if nobody beats me to it!

well that was quick...2 minutes after this post to be exact!

How about that,Bianca must be a U2 fan as well...a pack of postcards is on its way to you!

Comments

[Anastasia]

Happy Birthday!!!!!!!!!!

[Heidi]

Oh, someone beat me to it! I just googled Bono's birthday and see it was yesterday. Happy belated. Hope you had a good one.

[Alex]

Hope you had a great day, Marianne!
Happy Belated Birthday!

[melissa]

oh no, i missed your birthday!
happy belated birthday! hope you have a nice glass of wine to go with those (beautiful- even if they are flat!) meringues. x

[Belinda Kwan]

Happy Birthday Marianne!!! Now I wish I hadn't rambled on in my email last night.
Mmmmm, those meringues still looked like they would have tasted good.

[Zelia]

oh... your "buttons" must be delicious anyway:)

[Sandrine (alias Didine ♥ )]

Hello sweetest of the sweetie :) I'm sooooooooo sorry for not writing you more often ! I hope you'll forgive me and I apologize down on my knees because I missed your birthday !! Happy Birthday belated :) I hope you're fine !! Do you know Meringues are my favourite sweets ever on earth ! I promise, I swear !!! But I really don't know how to make them and the recipe of your friend is in english so I don't well understand the ingredients (castor what ???? I didn't know meringues were made with castors LOL) and how did you put the pink colour in them ???? well another you must learn to me : crochet :) I'm sad I'm the last one on earth who can't crochet ! Smooches from Belgium :)

[cruststation]

Happy belated birthday, I think your meringues turned out pretty -anything pink is lovely. Love your tags.

[amisha]

happy belated birthday!! :)

[Di]

Happy birthday!! I hope you had a good day! I love your button meringues and hey who cares what they look like as long as they taste fabulous!! My mum makes the greatest shortbread - and it's so easy except when I try to make it, it can go in the oven for 2 hours and still not be cooked....I just don't have it in me to make great shortbread. I am sure I would be a complete disaster at meringues!!

[Miss Marzie]

Happy Birthday Marianne. I am so glad you tried out my recipe for pink meringues. Keep going - you have identified all of your mistakes - I can tell that you haven't beaten the mixture for long enough - but they still look just as beautiful and probably taste just as good. And, of course they are pink. Please let us know how you go next time you attempt them.

[Tamara]

Happy Happy Birthday. Hope you had a good one. I'm sure that the two redeeming features of those meringues, the fact they tasted great and of course were pink, were all that mattered in Rose and Charlie's eyes. Have a happy Mother's Day tomorrow.