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Giant Meringue (Pavlova Gigantata)

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Giant GlutenFree Meringue
Photo by David Malosh

A crisp meringue gives a unique eating experience, as you feel it crunching and melting simultaneously. A perfect meringue dessert, with its fissures and epic swirls, also presents a beautiful landscape for garnishes. If you were able to shrink yourself to approximately one inch tall, this dessert would be the gnarliest surf breaks frozen in time. While we know this is impossible, we can always live vicariously through the myriad fruits, nuts, purees, and whips of the world as they garnish our Pavlova Gigantata. Turn on, tune in...eat Pavlova.

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