Lemon Meringue Bites

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These sweetness trivial beauties went together inwards LEMON MERINGUE BITES

This filling recipe volition create total 2 packages of phyllo cups together with since they are thence small, they chill chop-chop together with volition live laid to serve inwards brusk order. Two packages sounds similar a lot of lemon pies, but it actually isn't (the filling recipe was originally for an 8" pie). Hubby ate iv of these later a big meal, thence maintain that inwards mind.

2 packages of phyllo cups

LEMON FILLING
1 loving cup white sugar
¼ loving cup corn starch
1 loving cup water
2 egg yolks, slightly beaten
2 tablespoons butter
1/3 loving cup fresh lemon juice
½ teaspoon fresh lemon zest
2 drops yellowish nutrient color (optional)

MERINGUE TOPPING
2 egg whites
¼ teaspoon cream of tartar
¼ loving cup white sugar
½ teaspoon vanilla extract

For filling, mix sugar, cornstarch together with H2O inwards a heavy bottomed sauce pan. Cook over medium heat, stirring constantly, until mixture thickens together with comes to a boil; boil together with stir for ane minute. Stir one-half of this mixture into the beaten egg yolks (whisking similar crazy to maintain the mixture moving). After good mixed, pour the whole matter dorsum into the master copy pan together with boil (and stir) for ane to a greater extent than minute. Remove from oestrus together with stir inwards the lemon juice, lemon zest together with butter. Spoon hot lemon mixture into phyllo cups.
For the meringue topping, rhythm out (with electrical mixer) the egg whites together with cream of tartar until foamy together with thence sprinkle inwards the sugar, a trivial at a time, acre you lot are beating; add together the vanilla together with cash inwards one's chips along to rhythm out until rigid peaks shape when you lot elevator the beaters out of the bowl.
Top the hot lemon filling amongst a spoonful of meringue. Bake inwards a 400F oven for nearly 10 minutes or until the meringue becomes golden together with shiny (watch carefully). Cool on the counter until they are room temperature THEN put them inwards the refrigerator to chill.

NOTE: Be careful when you lot divide the eggs; fifty-fifty only a speck of yolk inwards the egg whites volition cease them from whipping correctly. Also, brand certain you lot produce NOT whip the egg whites inwards anything plastic. Any traces of grease or crude oil inwards the bowl or on the beaters volition cease your egg whites from whipping properly.
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