These started off as a way to use up left over egg whites when I had used multiple yolks to make a very rich chocolate cake, I then got a little bit addicted to forming the snowy peaks and experimenting with the crunchy-on-the-outside-and-soft-in-the-middle (like an aardvark) texture and it just went from there. I have made them previously in little petit four cases, but I think freestyle is much more beautiful. I thought they looked lovely piled up in the vintage pink bowls I bought from a little independent vintage shop in the South - where I also managed to find a cake plate to match my tea set, so that was a good day!
