Flower and White.

 Never have I had meringue before nor pavlova, I usually just dribble watching the bakers on Great British Bake off making meringue. I'm not entirely sure why I have never tried meringue, I guess that is because I can be so fussy when it comes to food. That's until I got sent a ton of different flavoured meringue and pavlova.


'We started out on a stand at a local Shropshire market with our unique sharing cakes ‘Tweeners’ which were so irresistible they sold out! Since then we have created many more delicious innovations for you to enjoy including Merangz & Custardz. All of our products are handmade in Shropshire with the best quality available ingredients, natural flavours and British free range eggs.'

 

Starting with the ' 5 fruit' meringue first. The 5 meringue come in 5 different flavours (obvs haha) those flavours are Lemon, Passion fruit, Lime, strawberry, and cherry.

The meringues were SO true to flavour, I cannot even explain how much they taste like the fruit, the lemon for example was spot on. None of the meringues have a over powering taste to it, just enough for you to taste the flavour. Now, its not the greatest idea to be taking photos of meringue when looking after an 18 month-year-old. Yup, my nephew was ALL OVER these meringues. He neither has ever tried meringue, so once I was happy with the photos that I had taken I let my nephew be the first to do the taste test. He loved them all but passion fruit was his favourite, the kid devoured it! I don't have a least favourite out of these meringues but my favourite was cherry. I HATE eating cherries, but I enjoyed this flavour alot as meringue. 

 

The white chocolate and Raspberry meringue is the definition of '#foodporn' someone had even commented 'this is a work of art' on my Instagram photo of it! It is possibly the prettiest piece of food I have ever laid eyes on. If it was on Great British Bake Off that would 100% get star baker! I'm not a HUGE fan of chocolate, but white chocolate.. I love! Its something about white chocolate that makes me want to eat more and more of it. The meringue is huge too! Myself and my oldest brother both tucked into one after dinner and loved it! It would taste even more fab with some whipped cream or a sprinkle of raspberries on top. Still tastes delish plain!

There were 8 individual vanilla pavlovas, I decided to get some inspiration from the Flower and White website. They have an image of different fruits and cream on one.. so I decided to use my artistic skills to decorate the pavs and oh mY GOSH! Decorating is so much harder than it seems. I had a struggle with using the whipped cream, I would squirt it and 10 seconds later it would have melted! So I gave my nephew the pavlova that had melted cream on so I could perfect a pretty pav. I kind of mastered it on my second attempt. I decided to cut up raspberries and pop a few blueberries on top of the whipped cream and Voila! Here is my masterpiece haha.

Oh, and btw it tastes AMAZING! I think my nephew enjoyed it too! (He was absolutely COVERED in it by the end of it.)

I decided not to go absolutely crazy with the decoration of the giant chocolate pavlova. I cut some strawberries up and placed them on top, just to add a bit more flavour.. because who doesn't love eating strawberries and chocolate!?

What made me really enjoy these even more was the fact that they are gluten free! You've probably seen me go on and on about pizza and burgers but for the past 3 months, I haven't been able to eat anything that contains gluten/ wheat! It had gotten so bad that I would work a 9-hour shift and not eat a single thing! I was too scared of eating, mostly because I was so unsure of what was gluten free. I would never have even thought of checking the packaging to food before, if I liked the look of something I would scoff my face. Oh, how times have changed!
As there is SO much meringue I have literally been taking some to work to eat it at lunch. Haha.

I plan on getting my nephew a giant passion fruit meringue for his birthday and also a white chocolate and raspberry meringue for my birthday... because seeing as I can no longer eat a sponge cake I need some sort of desert!

Check out Flower and White! They not only do Meringue and Pavlova they also have muffins, 'tweeners' and custard!


Their social links;

Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/flowerandwhite/

Twitter - https://twitter.com/flowerandwhite

Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/flowerandwhite.co.uk/

Website - http://flowerandwhite.co.uk/index.php



They also attend fairs across the UK.
Here are a few dates of their whereabouts,

15th October - Made in Shropshire, Shrewsbury
15th October - Alcester Autumn Fair
16th October - Dudmaston Orchard Day

4th November - Shrewsbury Farmers Market
4-6th November - Cake International, NEC Birmingham
4-6th November - BBC Good Food Show, Glasgow
10-13th November - Ideal Home Show, Manchester
10-13th November - Festive Gift Fair, NEC Birmingham
12th November - Shrewsbury Made In Shropshire
19-20th November - Christmas Gift Fair at Himley Hall
19th November - Shropshire Produce Market
23-27th November - Ideal Home Show, Olympia London
24-27th November - BBC Good Food Show Christmas, NEC
26-27th November - Ludlow Medieval Christmas Fayre

2nd December - Shrewsbury Farmers Market
3rd December - Much Wenlock Christmas Market
4th December - Bridgnorth Christmas Market
8th December - Wrexham Christmas Market
10th December - Shrewsbury Made In Shropshire
10-11th December - Litchfield Christmas Festival Weekend
12-13th December - Shrewsbury Christmas
17th December - Shrewsbury Christmas Farmers Market

 A big thanks to Social Berry and Flower and White!

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