Meringue is one of baking's simplest pleasures — just egg whites and sugar whipped to fluffy peaks, then baked low and slow until crisp and cloud-like. But while beautiful, meringue can admittedly ...

Really nothing more than a combination of egg whites and sugar whipped to frothy peaks, meringue is a simple but key player in a variety of baking and pastry recipes. Use it as a topping, gracing ...

Classic lemon meringue pie – an elegant, beautiful, and absolutely delicious dessert. This is truly one of my favorite desserts of all time. While it’s not the easiest dessert to make, following this ...

Meringues are one baked good that I admit to having nightmares about. I can shut my eyes and see a batch of egg whites just swirling and swirling around in a stand mixer, like an endless spinning ...

Lemony sweet potatoes topped with meringue from "The Big Book of Sides" by Rick Rodgers. He compares the dish to sweet potato pie without the crust. From Rick Rodgers: If you like the theory of ...

There are dozens of ways to ruin a lemon meringue pie, and as I walked up to the French Pastry School’s Loop campus, I envisioned every single one of them. I’d been invited to spend a few hours with ...

Ivy Manning is a Portland, Oregon-based award-winning food writer and author of 10 cookbooks. She is a regular recipe tester and editor for Eater as well as for restaurants and appliance brands.

So you just finished whipping up some fluffy homemade meringue for your favorite dreamy cream pie. But what's the best way to store meringues and other cream-topped pies? They're best served chilled, ...