Health Bar Meringue Torte--A Trump Family Tradition!
- Ready In:
- 1hr 30mins
- Ingredients:
- 8
- Serves:
-
24
ingredients
- 9 egg whites
- 2 3⁄4 cups sugar
- 1 tablespoon vinegar
- 1⁄2 teaspoon cream of tartar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1⁄2 teaspoon salt
- 1 quart whipping cream
- 6 whole Heath candy bars, chopped
directions
- Preheat oven to 400.
- Beat egg whites,while slowly adding sugar, vinegar, Cream of tartar, vanilla and salt.
- Beat until meringue holds it’s shape.
- Beat some more and still more!
- Draw 2- 9-inch circles on baking paper.(Or the inside of a brown paper bag)
- Place paper, with circles on a baking sheet.
- Spoon meringue equally within the circles.
- Reduce heat in oven to 275 and bake tort for 1½ hours. (Don't encourage children to dance around the kitchen or you will have a flat Meringue)
- Turn oven off and keep torte in oven until completely cool.
- Whip Cream and add crushed heath bars. (I use the food processor to crush them.)
- Frost cooled Tortes like a layered cake.
- Garnish with Heath bar pieces.
- Refrigerate for at least 4 hours before serving.
- Cut small as this is VERY RICH!
- Variation: Put vanilla frozen custard or ice cream between layers instead of frosting with whip cream and cover with Strawberries, raspberries or peaches.
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Love to cook, so I am lucky that my family appreciates it! Juggling crazy schedules, with two working parents and teenagers, but I value the importance of family dinners nightly!
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<br>Also love to garden, read and use photo's creativly making personal calendars for my family. I teach Sunday School and volunteer with the Skating Association for the blind and handicapped.
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<br>Read cookbooks like novels, and living up to my name, Joy, my favorite cookbook is The Joy of Cooking! Working on a long term project of making a family cookbook with all my favorite recipes with family pictures, comic strip favorites and quotes.