Coconut Lime Meringue Nests

How does the song go?

🎶You put the lime in the coconut, then fill it with Easter candy?🎶

Feel free to correct me if that doesn’t seem correct.

Recently, I did a sponsored collaboration with Eggland’s Best to feature their liquid egg whites in an Easter recipe! I was trying to think a little outside of the box on this one: I love a good meringue cookie, but I wanted to invoke that springtime feeling. I know I’ve seen “bird’s nests” before with toasted coconut, and I love how they evoke that twig & straw visual. I never tried it for myself, so there was able experimentation on the best way to distribute the shredded coconut all over these sticky meringues before they were baked.

A little experimentation, a little bit of patience, and I came up with what had been living in my head.

*woohoo*

Eggland’s Best 100% Liquid Egg Whites are awesome, and I am firmly in the camp of “work smart, not hard.” Normally, for a recipe like this, I’d be cracking and separating about 6 eggs. One, it’s messy. Two, it’s icky. Three, one minuscule drop of yolk in the egg whites, and you’re basically DONE, because that meringue will not whip up the way you want to. (Trust, I speak from experience.) But, with pourable egg whites, I can save myself time and a mess. I am HERE for that!

These Coconut Lime Meringue Nests truly are a great dessert for spring, Easter, or just because! The hit of lime zest is surprisingly potent, but not omnipresent. It just pairs well with its classic partner in crime, the coconut. As a fun treat, fill them with easter candies like I did. Other ideas? Perhaps whip up a lime curd to fill them with! That’ll certainly brighten this already-stellar dessert up!

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➡️ Please see the recipe here, and enjoy! ⬅️

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NOTE: This blog post was based on content I created for a sponsored Instagram post & recipe created for Eggland’s Best in March 2021. As always, all opinions are my own.