How to Make a Festive Vegan Meringue Wreath
Everyone deserves an absurdly fancy dessert on Christmas
Whether your Christmas this year will be spent with family, chosen family, whoever’s in your bubble, or in a more compact, cozy fashion with just yourself — everyone deserves a showstopper dessert. I know it seems outlandish to suggest making this for one person, but hear me out: eat it for breakfast, perhaps while watching comforting films or face-timing loved ones, enjoy a sugar-induced nap, rustle yourself up something savoury later on and finally reward yourself with more meringue wreath for dessert.
If you’re serving this beauty to a crowd you can be assured of their appreciative gasps — not that impressing people should be your sole motivation in cooking but I believe it’s quite reasonable at Christmas, especially when the question, “so what are you doing with your life?” tends to come up a lot. It’s useful to have this spectacular meringue wreath as either a distraction or an example of absolutely being a capable adult.
Not to mention the obvious — while this is entirely vegan, it doesn’t necessarily look like people’s idea of vegan food and it will surely delight and dazzle eaters of any persuasion. There is a certain selfish joy in winning over someone with vegan food at Christmas, that time of resolute tradition and…
