Eton mess!!! Delicious, easy and cheap dessert

So I hosted my first dinner party in our new house last night. Not sure if I had mentioned our move in previous posts but it's a much bigger, family home with a big open kitchen and we are inlove with it! So I had all the family and a few friends over last night as a Mother's Day get together as well as mum had been in Perth on Mother's Day and I wasn't able to share my first mother's day with her! :( I decided to go all out for the dinner party and made some gorgeous little canapés for entree and delicious creamy salmon pasta for dinner and to finish off with our light and healthy menu I followed with a super easy eton mess which is great when you've got quite a few people! Even my brother ate it, and he is not a sweets tooth AT ALL! and I finished off licking the bowl ;)

Start off earlier in the day with making your meringue so that it has time to cool and the rest of the ingredients just get chucked together when it comes time to serve! Plus you can use whatever fruit you have in the house. I have a thing for raspberries at the moment so that was my theme and even better that I had a tin of passionfruit pulp in the pantry. Scrummy!

Eton mess

Ingredients:

For basic meringue:
4 egg whites, at room temperature
Pinch of salt
1 cup caster sugar
1/2 tsp vanilla essence

For mess:

150ml thickened cream, whipped
150ml natural yoghurt
225g raspberries (or whatever fruit you have)
Tin of passionfruit pulp

1.Preheat oven to 120 C and line baking tray with baking paper.
2.Whisk egg whites and salt until soft peaks form. Gradually add sugar, 1 Tbsp at a time, making sure sugar dissolves after each addition.
3. Continue to whisk for 3 minutes until meringue is glossy and smooth. Whisk in vanilla essence.
4. Spoon mixture on to baking tray with a Tbsp, making a circle shape.
5. Bake for 40-45mins or until meringue is lightly golden. Leave to cool in oven completely.
6. Once cooled, break in to pieces.
7. Meanwhile place raspberries in saucepan with 1/4 caster sugar on medium heat and stir until sugar dissolves and a pulp-like juice forms.
8. In another bowl, whip cream and add in natural yoghurt. Pour in broken bits of meringue and mix all together.
9. Start to layer dessert in desired glasses by placing a spoonful of raspberry at the bottom. Top with meringue mixture and then spoon a layer of passionfruit pulp, before repeating the layers again.
10. Eat!!