This Australian/New Zealand originated creamy and luscious dessert ends any dinner elegantly. Easy to make too!

Ingredients

Servings: 8

• 4 egg whites
• 1 tbsp cornstarch
• 3/4 cup confectioners sugar
• 1 small tub cool whip
• 1 tsp lemon juice
• 1/8 tsp cream of tartar
• 1 cup fresh strawberry or raspberry or mixed berries + 1 tsp lemon juice
• chocolate sauce (optional)

Directions

1. Preheat oven at 300F.
2. Draw a 9 inch circle on parchment paper and flip paper over so that the circle side faces down.
3. Separate egg whites from yolks. Be sure to not allow any trace amount of yolk to get into egg whites. Beat egg whites until stiff.
4. Mix cornstarch, sugar and cream of tartar and gradually mix into egg white mixture.
5. Gently fold in lemon juice into egg white mixture.
6. Spread meringue mixture onto parchment paper.
7. Place meringue mixture into oven but immediately turn oven heat down to 250F and bake for 1.5 hours.
8. After baking, turn off oven but leave meringue in oven with oven door open to prevent cracking.
9. Once meringue completely cooled, spread cool whip on top of meringue.
10. Mix 1 tsp lemon juice with fresh berries. Place on top on whipped cream.
11. May drizzle with chocolate sauce if desired.