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Almond Orange Meringue Tarts filled with Whipped cream

Light as air meringue disks filled with creamy orange filling.

Course Dessert
Cuisine American
Keyword almonf oranage, meringue cookies, mernigue
Prep Time 1 hour
Servings 8

Ingredients

  • 4 Egg Whites Large
  • 1/4 TSP Salt
  • 1/4 TSP Cream of Tartar
  • 1/2 TSP Orange Extract
  • 1 Cup White Sugar
  • 1/2 Cup Orange Marmalade
  • 2 Drops Orange Food Coloring

To Make the Whipped Cream

  • 1 Cup Heavy whipping cream
  • 1/2 TSP Almond Extract
  • 1 TBS White Sugar

Instructions

To Make the Meringue Tatrs

  1. Preheat oven to 225F.

  2. In a bowl of a standing mixer, place the egg whites and whisk with the cage attachment until foamy.

  3. Add the salt and cream of tartar.

  4. Slowly add the sugar, one table spoon at a time. I sprinkle the sugar over the mixer bowl and count to 5 before adding the next spoon.

  5. Keep mixing on high until very stiff meringue forms (about 5 minutes) .

  6. Add the orange extract and the orange food coloring and gently fold into the meringue.

  7. Place the meringue into a plastic piping bag fitted with a large rosette tip  and pipe 3 1/2 " rosettes.  

  8. Bake for 2 hours. When done, allow the tarts to cool before removing from pan.

To Make the Whipped cream

  1. In a bowl of a standing mixer, add the whipped cream, sugar and almond extract.

  2. Whisk on high until the cream stabilized.

  3. Place the whipped cream in a piping bag fitted with a round tip.

To Assemble

  1. Take the meringue tart, top faced down and in the middle place 1/2- 1  tsp  of orange marmalade . 

  2. Pipe the whipping cream around the orange marmalade and place the second meringue tart on top.