The Impossible Made Possible-- Meringues

I told you I'd be back with meringues!!!

I was rethinking my days as a child. I recall all the times that my grandma made me my favorite dessert-- meringues. [Yes, my favorite dessert fluctuates on a daily/weekly basis. So far its been pastry cream and white chocolate. As of two days ago its changed to crème caramel/flan. Its very hard to just chose one! Haha] 

Beautiful pretty, fluffy sweet meringues. They just melt in our mouth. She used to make meringue cake layers stuffed with melted chocolate, and cream. Infinite layers of chocolate, sugar and egg whites, and cream. 

Recently I noticed that none of my grandparents have been eating desserts. Apparently sugar (including natural sugars like honey, molasses, maple syrup, etc…) was forbidden in each of their diets. This got me thinking-- what if I made her SUGAR FREE meringues? Was that a possibility?

I asked my parents about this, of course, they were against the very idea of attempting something new. It was "impossible". I asked my grandmother and she told me every dessert she had ever made with Splenda failed.  It was "impossible" in her eyes as well. I asked my aunts, according to them "impossible".

So I made full sugar meringues AGAIN... that my grandparents could not eat. Here they are:

I most certainly was not satisfied. If I had never attempted new recipes, I wouldn’t be here today. I would be baking the same boring old muffins that my mother had baked for years, which might i add, was a cake mix. I would never have attempted to create my own recipes (which I have succeeded with 8 out of the 8 times, just look at my previous post about my tart!). So I went over to the store, against my parents will and bought a box of Splenda Granular. I was determined to do this, to challenge the "impossible".

I searched the internet for days and days trying to find a decent recipe. All the comments were the same: "Horrible aftertaste" "Flattened out" "Disgusting".

What did I do? I attempted my own recipe. Just like that. How did they turn out?

BEAUTIFULLY. I thought they would be a disaster- I pictured flattened out bitter burnt "pancake" like cookies. But no. I admit they did not taste as good as full sugar meringues, but they were still amazing. Make that 9 out of 9. 

The reason they are "brownish" is because i added two heaping teaspoons of cinnamon, in order to suck up that "liquid" the reviewers talked about in other recipes. I am going to post the recipe for these in a different post which will be coming soon, with step by step pictures, because i used a very specific method and am unsure how these meringues would turn out altering it just a tad. I made two successful batches! I'll be back!

Happy Baking!

xxx