Meringue Kisses with Passion-Fruit Fool

Ingredients

• 0.8 cup powdered sugar 
• 8 large egg whites 
• 1.5 teaspoons gelatin powder unflavored
• 2 cups granulated sugar 
• 1 cup cup heavy whipping cream chilled
• 0.8 cup passion fruit rum frozen thawed
• 0.8 teaspoon salt 
• 0.5 cup cream sour

Equipment

• frying pan
• baking sheet
• baking paper
• oven
• sieve
• blender
• hand mixer
• pastry bag

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 175°F and line 2 large baking sheets with parchment paper.
2. Beat whites with salt in a standing electric mixer at high speed (or with a handheld mixer in 2 batches) until they just hold stiff peaks. Gradually add sugar, beating at high speed until whites hold stiff, glossy peaks.
3. Spoon half of meringue into pastry bag and pipe 1-inch-wide kisses onto 1 baking sheet, about 1/2 inch apart. Pipe more kisses onto second sheet in same manner. (All kisses will fit on 2 baking sheets.)
4. Bake meringues in upper and lower thirds of oven until crisp but still white, about 2 hours.
5. Turn off oven and cool meringues in oven 1 hour, then cool completely on sheets on a rack..
6. Sprinkle gelatin over 2 tablespoons pulp in a small heatproof cup and let stand 1 minute to soften.
7. Melt softened gelatin in cup in a pan of simmering water, then stir into remaining pulp.
8. Beat heavy cream with confectioners sugar using cleaned beaters until it just holds soft peaks, then beat in sour cream until mixture holds stiff peaks. Fold pulp into cream and chill fool, covered, at least 4 hours and up to 1 day.
9. Serve fool with meringues.
10. • Meringues keep in an airtight container at room temperature 3 days.• You can substitute 20 fresh passion fruit for the pulp. Halve them and force their pulp through a sieve, discarding seeds.