I want to show you this new book from Williams-Sonoma.
It’s filled with delicious photographs and tons of recipes including …
Pretzels.
Pop Tarts.
And pies to name a few.
Are your taste buds warming up yet? Mine sure are. I could hardly stand to flip through the pages of this book without wanting to make everything in it.
Home. Baked. Comfort. Yes, please.
And guess what, else.
This book also includes recipes from several bakeries and bloggers across the country.
Like Smitten Kitchen, Tartine, Cannelle et Vanille, Flour, Baked…
And more.
Maybe even one from someone you know.
With all this yumminess, it was really hard to decide what to bake first. I flipped through the book several times before I finally decided.
When I saw that one of the featured bakeries was from Minneapolis, I knew right away that was the one to try since I’ll be in Minnesota and at Williams-Sonoma in about two weeks for a book signing. (Details here.)
And now, I may just have to stop by this bakery, too.
Salty Tart. Cute name.
And her recipe for Chewy Chocolate Meringues is delish.
And easy.
And better yet, only needs four ingredients.
Finely chopped bittersweet chocolate.
Five tablespoons cocoa powder.
Sugar and egg whites.
This photo kinda makes them look like egg yellows though.
Whisk together the egg whites and sugar over – but not touching – simmering water until dissolved.
Remove from heat and beat the egg whites until stiff and glossy.
Then fold in the chocolate and cocoa.
Scoop out the batter on parchment lined baking sheets and bake away.
You want to see cracks. That’s part of what I love about this recipe. No need to try and make anything look perfect. These are already perfectly imperfect.
And oh so good.
They are highly addictive, too. I don’t want to tell you how many I ate before I even finished taking photos…
…but let’s just say that this photo is missing quite a few.
I’m so glad I tried this recipe. I’ve never made meringues before because they never really looked all that appealing to me. But wow! These chocolate ones will be made again. And again.
Thanks Salty Tart.
Adapted from Home Baked Comfort. * I omitted the cocoa nibs because I didn't have any on hand and the cookies still came out beautifully.
Chewy Chocolate Meringues
Ingredients
Instructions
Notes
The recipe says it makes about 2 dozen meringues, but I ended up with about 60 using a 1.5 inch scoop. I also used a scale to measure my ingredients exactly.
Home Baked Comfort by Kim Laidlaw
Photographed by Eric Wolfinger
Featured Bakeries
Baked, Brooklyn, NY
Floriole Cafe & Bakery, Chicago, IL
Flour Bakery + Cafe, Boston, MA
Huckleberry Cafe & Bakery, Santa Monica, CA
Pearl Bakery, Portland, OR
Salty Tart Bakery, Minneapolis, MN
Sugar Mama’s Bakeshop, Austin, TX
Tartine Bakery, San Francisco, CA
Featured Bloggers
Cannelle et Vanille
La Tartine Gourmande
Smitten Kitchen
and me : )
The book is available at Williams-Sonoma until February 2012. Then you’ll also be able to find it on Amazon.
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Until then, want to win a copy?
You do. I promise.
Leave a comment on this post answering the following random question.
- What is your favorite Halloween candy?
- Deadline to enter is Tuesday evening, September 27th at 6:00 pm ET. SORRY, TIME’S UP!
- One winner will be picked at random and announced sometime Tuesday evening.
Good Luck!
Disclosure: Giveaway sponsored by me. : )
And the winner is……
Myra – You’re gonna love this book.
I love fun size Snickers! I buy myself a bag so that my kids can keep thier stash to themselves.
Wow! I needed a special dessert for a family dinner this week, and viola! here was this recipe today. Made these little jewels tonight and I am HOOKED! My first time making meringues too. Definitely requires paying attention to what you’re doing, but totally worth it. I added a little cinnamon to the cocoa b/c I love the flavor combo. Thanks again!
I abaoulutly love Caramel apples with pecans sprinkled over the top for halloween!
Um, nothing is better than Kit Kats. But NO ONE ever gave them away when I trick-or-treated. Now I just buy them for any trick-or-treaters that come to my door. And there is usually plenty left over for moi!
I love fun sized candy bars, especially Twix!!
My favorite would have to be candy corn!
Candy corn. I think because I only eat it around Halloween.
My favorite Halloween candy is Kit Kat bars.
Candy corn and candy pumpkins. YUM!
take 5
I know most people find them nasty, but I love candy corn. As for actual trick or treat candy I love Mr. Goodbar, Kitkats and starbursts
My bf loves the caramel corn balls. I prefer candy corn!
My favorite Halloween candy is reese’s peanut butter cups!
I love plain m&m’s and the mini m&m’s taste even better.
Cherry Mash, bite size
Candy Corn! I already ate a bag this past week *^_^*
My favorite Halloween candy is definitely twix but there’s this new lady who moved in down the street a couple years ago and she hands out cupcakes! How cute is that! :) Thanks for the chance to win!
Twix!
Mellowcream pumpkins….mmmmmmmm!
My favorite is tiny Andes mints!
Candy Corn!
my fav by faaaaar is almond joy! my sister always used to give me hers too.
I love getting the bit-o-honeys and m&m peanuts!
Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup Pumpkins!!
mini peanut butter cups….MmmmmMmmmm
My favourite Hallowe’en candies are anything “fun sized” (although it’s not much fun when the candies are half the size)! But they are just so easy to pop in my mouth, over and over again! Yummy
Tried to think of which candy I sneak out of my kiddos buckets of goodies….I would have to say…Snickers. Thanks for the chance to win!!!
Amazing meringues and giveaway! :’) Thanks for sharing!
Oh, and my favorite Halloween candy is TOOTSIE ROLLS! :)
My favorite are dots. The pink ones are the best! Yummy!
that’s a toughie, but i think i have to go with twix. or peanut m&ms. no, kit kat.
I love Nestle’s Crunch Pumpkins!!!
Caramel apple pops! I used to could find them in stores year round, but now it’s only around Halloween.
Probably Mini-milkyways but i live in canada and they dont have them here :( . My friend makes really yummy caramel popcorn balls at halloween that are delicious too!
Your homemade gum drops!!
I LOVE the Carmel Apple Suckers but they are Very expensive “Treat” once they take out a tooth and the “Trick” is a new crown. I try to just stick with carmel corn and popcorn balls now.
The pumpkin candy corns!
My favorite Halloween candy are mellow creme candy pumpkins! They are just so petite and delicious!
Mary Janes in the wrappers are so fun! I know they still make them! Yea!
I love candy corns!
Brach’s Mellowcreme Pumpkins!
Mini M&M’s, for sure!
Mini snickers chocolate bars! I try not to buy them too early or they all get eaten!
Candy corn mixed together with spanish peanuts!
Candy Corn!!!!
SNICKERS! I don’t feel as bad as eating them because they’re the mini size. So it’s healthy.
My favorite Halloween candy is any of the chocolate ones ;o) I particularly like the Almond Joys!
snickers pumpkins!
I love the little mini kit kats!! Thanks so much for the chance! I look so forward to new updates on your blog, so glad your feeling better!!!
My favorite is pumpkin peeps!
Reese’s pumpkins!
I love the pumpkin candy corns and of course anything chocolate!
Candy Corn! I’m mocked for liking this sweet tasteless waxy substance but it makes me feel like a kid.
Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups! Chocolate and Peanut Butter are my fav combo! Looking forward to seeing you in a couple of weeks in Minneapolis!
Peanut m&m’s !!!!!!! Love them !!!!!
I love those caramel apple suckers. mmm! and it looks like I’ll love everything in this book!
Caramel Apple suckers…they are so bad foe you but delicious.
Gotta have candy corn on Halloween!
May favorite is candy corn and candy pumpkins.
100 grand, the sticky gooey mess that gets in me teeth!
My favorite Halloween candy is anything mini and chocolate… mini kitkat… mini snickers… mini reeses… you get the idea!
My favorite Halloween candy is those fake cigarettes. Basically compressed sugar. We used to call them dinosaur bones…sugary greatness!!!
reese’s peanut butter cups
whoppers!
Mini Snickers! I especially love to stick them in the freezer and find them during the week!
I’m old school- Candy Corn for me but only because I dont consider Chocolate as Halloween Candy I consider it a daily food group. :)
Congrats on being included in the book!
Shannon
Dots…I only eat them at Halloween:)
ooh, tough question! ;) Gotta be candy corn.
Thanks!
Hands down, Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups.
I do love candy corn, but where there is the possibility of eating too much candy corn there is no such possibility of eating too many peanut butter cups.
Definitely Reese’s cups…but it has to be the pumpkin shaped ones. The special holiday shaped ones have the perfect peanut butter to chocolate ration not seen in the regular ones. It’s true.
What candy don’t I love????
One of my favorites is Pixie Stix.
Anything with chocolate! I’ve never been too picky with my Halloween candy and chocolate always hits the spot.
Candy corn! So addictive!
Candy corn is my favorite!
Reese’s miniature peanut butter cups!! and ohhhh, i gotta have this book!!
Congratulations! i have your Cake Pops book sitting in a cookbook holder in my kitchen!
I love Reese’s peanut butter cups! :)
My favs are candy corn and M&M’s. Yum! Can’t wait for Halloween!!
Yum!! What a great post. I love Reeses Peanut Butter cups for Halloween, my all time fave!
I was always excited to get the flavored tootsie rolls because as a kid, Halloween was the only time they seemed to be around.
Not such a big fan of the candy but I love anything pumpkin – especially pumpkin cheesecake!
Those mallowcreme pumpkins – just them all alone. I don’t want that stinky harvest mix or plain candy corn. There’s something special about the texture of those pumpkins!!!
Hands down, no question it’s the snack size Baby Ruth!!
My favorite would have to be candy corn – the traditional ones.
Candy corn! Although really, I love any candy…but since candy corn is really only found during Halloween…yum. :)
I love a good, salty caramel but the classic Reeses peanut butter cups get me every time. Thank you
peanut m&ms are my weakness! my siblings know this and i get all of them as “candy tax” when i take them trick or treating LOL
my candy is peanut butter cup mini’s!! for sure FROZEN! mmmmm i hope i get picked
My favorite halloween candy is candy corn, for sure. Sugary goodness at its best!
Candy corn! It just says Halloween!
caramel apples!! :)
Pumpkin spice Hershey’s kisses – yum!
My favorite Halloween candy is Heath bars! They’re not very common, but they’re oh so tasty~
Also, I don’t think I’ve ever had a meringue, but those ones look delicious!
Mini snickers!
Snickers!!!
Anything except candy corn? Um, I like Caramel Cups – like a reese’s cup but with caramel?
I love butterfingers!
I love the wax lips!!
Not specific to Halloween but my favorite candy is reese’s peanut butter cups.
ROCKETS!
Dots!!!
I love butterfingers and candy corn! But I also just really like mini sized chocolates:)
Favorite Halloween Candy – homemade gooey carmel corn balls. YUM!
I love eating peanut butter and chocolate halloween candy. Anything between peanut butter m&ms to snickers ice cream bar- which are extreamly yum.
THE MOst WONDERFUL CANDY FOR ME IS:
macadamia nuts covered in white or chocolate and smothered with caramel.
Candy corn! Can’t stand it any other time of year…
Reese’s peanut butter cups! There is always a battle for them between me and my hubby.
i love the pumpkin shaped reese’s peanut butter cups! i used to come home after trick-or-treating, dump out my bag on the living room floor, and gauge my “success” on how many of the large reese’s cups i received.
Almond Joy is my favorite Halloween candy! Yum!!!
fav candy is sweet tarts! oh, and i always really liked jaw breakers too
Caramel apple suckers! I go thru 6 bags the month of October and that doesn’t even include the giveaway candy!
Miniature Reeses were the first thing I picked out my candy bag after Trick or Treating. Ummmm peanut butter and chocolate.
candy corn!!
Candy Corn!! :-)
Tootsie Rolls!
Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups. Always. They are my favorite candy EVERY day of the year :)
Indian corn, mix it with peanuts and it gets better!
Sadly, I do love the old timey Mary Janes — too bad they usually take a filling out when I eat them. :(
Almond M&Ms, Peanut M&Ms,Candy Corn and all the snack size candy bars :-)
My favorite Halloween candy has to be Kit Kats or crunch bars!
Milky Way. They’re fun size.
Candy corn. Nom.
Milkyways. I love those things!
I LOVE candy corn and pumpkins!!! I wait all year for them to come out. Mix them with Golden Grahams and dry roasted peanuts and I’m set!
Candy corn!
What, you mean there’s something besides candy corn at halloween? Second runner up : peannut butter cups. Peanut butter cups make life worthwhile.
I love the little boxes of Dots.
Besides anything chocolate I really do like candy corn
My favorite candy is candy corn….so delicious!!!!!
I love Starburst… but fruit snacks never fail to get old. ?
Candy corn
Miniature take 5’s they are the best!
Reese’s peanut butter cups!
Candy corn, popcorn balls and caramel apples :)
My favorite is candy corn. Mix a handful of those with a handful of peanuts and you’ve got your own PayDay!
I LOVE candy corn!!!
candy corn!!!!!! yummm!!! (but the regular kind, not the chocolate kind-yuk!!!)
Candy Corn!
Fun size Milky Ways – YUM!!
Definitely candy corn! I like to bite off one color at a time. I like that it’s a traditional candy, it tastes so good, cute to decorate with, and that I can eat it in my own fun quirky way!
Carmels. Like the ones you melt to put on apples if you are not making them from scratch.
Bite-size Snickers…yum!
fun size kit kats! Just as good and only half the guilt. :)
Mini Milky Way!
I love the brown chewy toffee. I don’t even know what it’s called – I’m a sucker for chewy candy :)
i think that’s the toughest question yet!!!
candy corn is such a go-to, but i just can’t help myself to helping myself to all of the reeses cups in my kids loot.
Dark Chocolate Milky Way. It’s all about the caramel.
Carmel apple lollipops. Love them!
Candy Apples fo sho!
Red Hots and Atomic Fire Balls but I do love Snickers too!!
Candy corn!
Mmmmm….Milky ways are my favorite!
Ohhh, Candy Corn or Mini Snickers (which I only get as my son has peanut allergies and we “trade” for safe candy!)
Fun-sized Snickers! Of course, those are my favorite pretty much any time of year….
Chocolate :)!
Anything with peanut butter is my favorite!
Reese’s pumkins! Holidays are good reasons to eat larger than normal peanut buttter cups!!! Haha
I love anything Chocolate, especially TWIX!
Candy corn is hands down my favorite Halloween candy. I eat it until I get sick at least once during the Fall every year, and one year I went as a candy corn for Halloween when I was a kid.
I love peanut butter M&Ms. Ugh, so good!
Reese’s Pumpkins!
Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups!!!!!!!
I can not remember the name of the candy, but they were a taffy, carmel and peanut butter flavor to them and came in orange and black wrappers. I used to hate them because my Mom would buy them every year, mainly because she knew I did not like them. But now when I see them I think of her all the time and wish she could be sitting next to me enjoying a few pieces.
Mmm… I love Reese’s PB cups. I especially love when people give out like the full size bars, not just the mini ones. But if its Reese, I’ll eat it! LOL =P
I LOVE TWIX! :)
This time of the year I just can’t resist CANDY CORN!!
Those meringues look amazing!! My ultimate favorite Halloween candy is candy corn!!
Chocolate worms…melt one part semi sweet chips and one part butterscotch chips. Mix in enough La Choy chow mein noodles so you can make big dollops of the mixture on a parchment covered baking sheet. Refrigerate until firm and you have my favorite Halloween candy!
fave halloween candy – anything gummi:)
Reese’s pumpkins!
Sixlets!!!
My favorite Halloween candy is Twix and Reese’s peanut butter cups!!
I may be alone on this one but I loved the maple like candy that was wrapped in orange paper and black paper individually, most people despised them so I hit the jackpot each year. They had peanut butter in them I think.. not sure what they were but yum! I love recipe books so I hope I am “randomly” picked :)
Candy corn mixed with dry roasted peanuts!
It’s not officially Halloween until I’ve had some candy corn!
Candy corn. Definitely candy corn.
Those melt in your mouth mellocream pumpkins!
i like the original halloween candy….candy kisses…the rest of the world has basically shunned them…poor things…they have been there forever for us….so good…so hard to find..
My favorite Halloween candy is by far CANDY CORNS….they always remind me of the fall weather and the fun of trick or treating on Halloween night :-)
I love all the mini-size versions of regular candy bars. All that chocolate in bite-size portions makes me happy.
Mini Tootsie Roll Pops!
I love all candy. Halloween is an excellent excuse to have more of it in your house. I would say favorites are Haribo brand Gummy Bears. Can’t beat em.
Anything with peanut butter…like Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups. Yummy! Now I want one! :)
CANDY CORN!!! I love candy corn! I really like Halloween and go all out with the decorations; candy corn in a pumpkin bowl is a must!
Candy corn forever!
I’m a sucker for Reese’s Pieces, but I’d take any kind of Reese’s candy. They just know how to do it right!!
Candy corn! I especially love the kind made with honey. But not the “autumn corn” with the chocolate ends. Blech.
Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups!!! They are the BEST!
candy corn pumpkins!
The mallo pumpkins, hands down.
I love candy corn, but my all time favorite is Butterfingers.
Why candy corn, of course! Love the colors…..love the bite in to hard then soft….love the sweet honey taste – oh joy of joys!
Candied apples. The bright shiny red ones. Or. The green Granny Smith apples twirled in caramel then dipped in nuts.
candy corn
Candy corn!
I love caramel apple lolipops!!! Cant wait to see you in San Francisco!!!
I love anything chocolate, but if I had to pick just one candy it would have to be Twix…or Reeses…oh I can’t pick just one!
Caramel apple suckers!
sixlets. dunno why. i just do.
Reese’s Pieces…ALWAYS!
Snickers minis are my favorite, but there are so many choices!!
Anything with peanuts–peanut m&ms, mr goodbar, snickers, reeses. My son being allergic to peanuts ensures I get to eat all his, although I have to be careful about when and where.
reese’s peanut butter cups, hands down.