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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...