Great Christmas dessert, as it serves also as the centerpiece first. Traditionally mushrooms are made with merengue, tho, not marzipan.
I use the recipe in Julia Child's "The Way to Cook." Always get RAVES!
I have made a buche de noel with meringue mushrooms and the extra ones I served as cookies (they were lightly dusted with cocoa) alongside in a wooden basket. They looked really cute!
Do you prepare meringue mushroooms also or do you buy them directly in a shop?I don't think it's easy to prepare home made merengue mushrooms...
Oh I see... the problem that it's raining and raning so the air is really wet!!!Actually, Arwen, making the merengue mushrooms is very easy. In the Holiday Treasures class I used to teach every single December, sometimes even twelve-year-olds would make them! If you have a good mixer to whip up your egg whites easily, then you can even use a sandwich baggie to pipe them out.
The only thing to watch out for is too much humidity in the air. That makes them sticky.
Did you see the throwdown with Francois Payard and Bobby Flay? The one where they made buche de noel--Francois Payard's was amazing!!! Bobby keeps going to the maple walnut flavors--he is getting too predictable.