List of recipes using Egg white: 33 recipes (gluten free)

Spicy hot toasted cashew nuts

Toasting cashews greatly improves both their flavour and texture over the plain raw nuts. This is also the ideal opportunity to spice them up a little, like in this very simple recipe.
38K 29 min. September 20^th 2020

Verrine of avocado mousse and crab

A layer of light avocado mousse on a bed of crab meat in a herb rémoulade dressing.
173K5 35 min. October 16^th 2011

Amaretti

Amaretti are little Italian almond biscuits. They are a bit like meringues, very sweet, and made with ground almonds.
62K4.5 1 hour 3 min. May 31^th 2015

Amiens macaroons

These macaroons, famous since the 16th century, are small, soft almond-flavoured cakes. This recipe is much easier to make than the one for the classic Parisian macarons.
88K5 49 min. February 13^th 2013

Calissons

Calissons are a sweet from Provence - Aix-en-Provence is famous for them - made with almonds and candied fruit, covered with royal icing. This is a slightly simplified version, which is every bit as good.
133K 53.3 1 hour 28 min. February 12^th 2012

Chocolate mousse

Here is a simple quick recipe for chocolate mousse. It is just necessary to be careful at the final stage, when mixing the melted chocolate and the beaten egg-whites.
465K3.7 40 min. February 21^th 2011

Chocolate mousse with hazelnuts

Here is a marvellous new chocolate mousse recipe that will delight real chocoholics. This is a rich, gourmet version, though not over-sweet and with the added crunchy texture of toasted hazelnuts. You'll love this one!
43K5 55 min. November 26^th 2017

Clafoutis "Marie-Antoinette"

This "Marie-Antoinette" clafoutis is a lighter version of the traditional fruit-in-batter baked dessert, almost a soufflé, with apples and lemon. The apples are sautéed in butter and Calvados, then combined with a lemon-flavoured confectioner's custard, lightened with raw meringue. This mixture is...
39K4.9 1 hour 17 min. November 1^st 2017

Eton mess

Behind this strange name there lurks a delicious traditional English dessert made of meringues, strawberries and cream.
155K5 4 hours 55 min. July 25^th 2010

Ice-cream Vacherin

Ice-cream vacherin is a festive French dessert. It consists of two different flavours of ice cream (blackcurrant and vanilla here) sandwiched between two circles of meringue, topped with whorls of Chantilly (whipped cream) which is then frozen. It is not too complicated, but involves a bit of work...
164K4.5 8 hours 45 min. December 21^th 2014

Macarons (the original French macaroons)

This recipe really is "of the moment": the success of these small, highly-coloured cakes, in an infinite variety of flavours, is impressive. It's a recipe which needs some care, in order to produce a result worthy of a professional pastrychef. No problem, I will guide you through the recipe,...
1.6M 714.6 2 hours 38 min. October 3^rd 2019

Meringues

A very simple recipe but which always impresses.
383K4.5 4 hours 17 min. June 10^th 2019

Mousse with two chocolates

Chocolate mousse is a great classic home-made dessert. Here's a version using two different chocolates (dark and milk) with a hint of vanilla, that owes much to a recipe by Christophe Michalak.
24K 43 min. April 25^th 2021

Nougat

Nougat is a sweet made with honey and almonds that has changed very little since ancient times. The nougat we know today is the Montelimar variety, in which egg whites are added to the basic recipe for a lighter texture. Here is a simplified version.
113K 15 1 hour 41 min. June 19^th 2013

Piped petits-fours

As the name suggests, these are piped into shape using a forcing bag. These dainty little macaroon-like cakes are made with marzipan and have a soft, moist texture.
109K 1 day 32 min. December 30^th 2019

Strawberry sorbet

The secret of a good strawberry sorbet is to use first class strawberries, very ripe and full of flavour, so do choose them with care. This recipe shows you how to lighten the texture of the sorbet by incorporating air.
78K4.6 31 min. July 9^th 2014

Stuffed prunes

Stuffed prunes are a sweetmeat made with halved dried prunes sandwiched together around a morsel of marzipan flavoured with Armagnac.
32K 20 min. July 18^th 2018

Succès praliné (praline meringue)

The "succès" (success) is a classic of traditional French patisserie, made with two layers of almond meringue filled with praline butter cream. It's very rich and a little old-fashioned these days, but still has many faithful fans. The original recipe comes from the master chef Gaston Lenôtre, and...
355K 34.4 4 hours 16 min. June 20^th 2010

Vanilla ice cream

Rediscover the full flavour of a real vanilla ice cream with this classical recipe.
424K3.8 1 hour 7 min. November 6^th 2017

Almond dacquoise

A dacquoise is a sort of almond meringue that can be eaten like a biscuit or can be used as the base of more sophisticated desserts.
192K5 44 min. June 28^th 2011

Armagnac marzipan

Almost the same as plain marzipan, but this almond paste is flavoured with a hint of Armagnac or Cognac.
39K4.8 9 min. September 12^th 2018

Butter cream

Butter cream is made with egg yolk, sugar syrup and, of course, butter. These days it has fallen rather out of fashion, probably because it's very rich, but it still has its aficionados. Here is the classic plain version, which you can lighten and flavour as you wish.
312K4.6 58 min. October 13^th 2010

Coconut paste

Similar to marzipan or walnut paste, coconut paste can be used in a variety of cake or sweet recipes, but you can enjoy munching it just as it is.
278K 14 15 min. October 13^th 2010

Italian Meringue

Italian meringue is made with sugar cooked to 120°C or 248°F. This is different from the French, which is made from caster sugar. The cooked sugar gives a softer meringue which can be added to other preparations or use as it is.
462K4.3 30 min. June 2^nd 2015

Macaronade mixture

Macaronade is the sweet almond and egg-white mixture (inspired by macarons (the original french macaroons) that French pâtissiers use as a topping on cakes and brioches. It forms a delicious crust when baked.
56K 2 min. November 25^th 2020

Marzipan (almond paste)

Very easy to do if you have a food processor which can slice or grate a lot of things.
620K 34.5 11 min. December 19^th 2021

Pistachio powder or paste

Pistachio paste has a similar texture to almond paste, but the similarity ends there, as its flavour and colour are quite characteristic.
358K 154 48 min. October 13^th 2010

Royal icing

Royal icing is a mixture of egg white and icing sugar. From its pasty consistency when fresh, it dries to give a lovely white crust.
187K4.7 13 min. February 12^th 2012

Swiss meringues

Swiss meringues are a variant of the classic French meringue. The eggs whites and sugar are beaten together in a bain-marie at first, then beaten stiff as normal. This makes for a firmer meringue which can be used to make small items or figures to decorate cakes or ice creams (such as mushrooms,...
110K3.8 1 hour 17 min. June 2^nd 2015

Walnut paste

Very similar to marzipan (almond paste) in method, walnut paste is very tasty.
291K 63.5 14 min. February 21^th 2011

How to add beaten eggs whites to a mixture

It is common in cooking or pastry, having beaten whites mix preparation to another without making them completely fall, here are some tips to help you to.
120K4.3 10 min. August 3^rd 2012

How to beat egg whites

Beat egg whites is very common in cooking and pastry, here are some tips to get there easily.
545K5 5 min. February 21^th 2011

Pavlova

Pavlova is a dessert which originated in New Zealand (or was it Australia?). It consists of a meringue shell filled with a layer of whipped cream and topped with seasonal fruit.
109K4.3 2 hours 34 min. March 24^th 2013