Donné has been watching Masterchef, and has been coveting a digital food thermometer like the ones that they use. Her Mother’s Day gift was a digital food thermometer and today we tried to make some Italian meringue which requires measuring the temperature of a sugar syrup exactly. It also ideally requires a mixer, so we dusted off the very old Kenwood Chef that we happen have.

Egg whites in the mixer, and syrup bubbling away on the stove being measured until it got to exactly 121ºC. The syrup goes into the egg whites in a thin stream while the mixer does it’s job, and ta-da! Italian meringue….yummy. Still a bit of work to do on technique and timing to get the right consistency, but a very good result for the first time.

Donné iced a cake from a new recipe she was trying with the meringue