With Valentines Day around the corner I wanted to share another lovely meringue recipe, which was specifically designed as a dessert for the day of lovers!















This recipe is the same as my pink chocolate eton mess meringue recipe but with the addition of rose water to give them that lovely rose scented flavour.

Rose as a flavour?

Middle Eastern flavours are apparently going to be very in vogue this year according to my 2014 food trends article, and roses always conjure up images of romance but they are expensive to buy especially this time of year when they add a mark up! So instead of buying roses this year why not include them in your food!















But if not used sparingly the flavour can be over powering, so go easy on the flavour and you will end up with perfect tasting rose kisses.















Kisses

Partly because the flavour in large quantities can be over powering and partly because they are mini and cute I made these kisses bite size and served them with a pot of lightly whipped double (heavy) cream. So delicious and moreish!















Baking time

As these are smaller than my previous foray into meringues these do not require the long baking time I found most of them baked within 30 to 45 minutes. The first batch took a little longer as the oven wasn’t as warm but keep a close eye on them and everything should turn out perfectly.















Colour

I wanted to make these a deep red like roses, but when initially creating this recipe it didn’t matter how much red food colouring I added it never went beyond the deep pink these became. So I lowered the amount added, after all who wants food full of artificial colouring? And they still came out this lovely deep salmon pink. You could make these any colour you desire or your sweetie desires, the choice is completely yours 😀













