Coconut, raspberry & lime meringue slice
By Sarah Cook
Cooking time
Prep: 45 mins Cook: 1 hr Plus coolingSkill level
Moderately easyServings
Serves 8Making one large meringue is much less fiddly than doing individual ones, and you can prepare all the elements ahead
Nutrition and extra info
Additional info
- Can be frozen unfilled
Nutrition per serving
- kcalories
- 434
- protein
- 3g
- carbs
- 46g
- fat
- 27g
- saturates
- 17g
- fibre
- 2g
- sugar
- 45g
- salt
- 0.15g
Ingredients
- 5 egg whites
- 280g caster sugar
- 2 tsp cornflour
- 2 tsp white wine vinegar
- 85g desiccated coconut
- little flaked coconut
- 300ml double cream
- 50g icing sugar
- zest and juice 2 limes
- 200g raspberries, defrosted if frozen
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Method
- Heat oven to 140C/120C fan/gas 1. Line baking sheets with baking parchment and draw 3 rectangles, roughly 25cm x 12cm. Whisk whites to stiff. Gradually whisk in sugar to stiff again, then whisk in the cornflour and vinegar. Fold in the desiccated coconut and pipe, or spread, the meringue mix into 3 even rectangles. Scatter flaked coconut over one of the meringues and bake for 1 hr, then turn off oven and leave in there with the door shut for 1 hr. Leave to cool.
- Whisk cream, icing sugar and lime zest and juice to a thick consistency. Spread half over one meringue base (not the one with flaked coconut on top – save that for the top), and scatter over half the raspberries. Sit second meringue base on top, spread with remaining cream and scatter with remaining raspberries. Top with coconut-covered meringue and serve.
Recipe from Good Food magazine, January 2011
Comments, questions and tips
Comments
First time I've tried making meringue. I realised the zest was staying in the whisk mesh so made sure I scraped it off and mixed it in. I didn't pipe it out, just smoothed out three rectangular blobs and it looked much like the photo - it was HUGE. And delicious. I'd make it again either for family or entertaining.
This was the first time I'd ever made meringues and I was very impressed at how easy it was. I only used two of the three layers as I was worried how easily it would fall apart when cut. Instead I put some of the cream and raspberries on the 2nd layer and coated with some grated dark chocolate. It went down very well!
Easy and looks impressive. The filling turned out little runny, however I had this great idea of lining an empty tissue box with clingfilm (meringues turned out to be spot on the same size!!!), placed the first meringue at the bottom of the box, then filling, second layer etc., placed in the fridge and then freezer half our before serving. The just ripped the box open, removed cling film - held its shape beautifully, and was lovely and refreshing. Definitely recommend for an impressive looking pud!
Fantastic summer pudd.
*i made circles and stacked two, to make it look prettier for a dinner party, topping off with cream and raspberries
*i added finely chopped 50g of dark bitter chocolate to meringue mixture to counter act the sugary sweetness. -works really well too with the lime and raspberrieslush lush lush
This was simple and easy to make but looked very impressive. I thought the meringue had more of a texture and taste to macaroons.
I loved it but you do have to really like coconut. I'm going to make it with 1/2 the coconut next time and see how it comes out. I'd also be tempted to make the same topping with a normal pavlova base
I made this for my mum's birthday and now she wants it every year. I just used the lime zest and found that was enough lime flavour, I can't get double cream so I didn't want to add any extra liquid to whipping cream because it wouldn't whip for me when I tried that before. Lovely refreshing dessert and pretty too.
It was delicious, but I couldn't make it look as beautiful as the pic as it all cracked when I tried to unstick the paper from the base. Also, I found (when I licked it!) that a lot of the lime zest stuck to the criss-cross bits of my electric whisk. Presumably the lime flavour was affected by this. If I do it again, I will stir the zest in after whipping the cream.
You can get frozen rasps in the freezer section of many supermarkets.
