Strawberry Meringue Nests

As I had used four egg yolks to make the sweet pastry for the glazed tartlets, I thought I would use the whites to make some meringues.
This recipe, as opposed to some of the other meringue recipes that I have made, involved whisking the mixture over simmering water. It also used icing sugar rather than caster.
I made about 12 medium sized nests. The recipe suggested 6, but they would have been really quite big.
I baked them for about 40 mins. They turned out to be crumbly on the outside and chewy on the inside, which in our house is the sign of a good meringue.
They went very quickly at our street gathering, and we gave them 9.0. Although it was a bit more awkward mixing over a hot pan, and it mean't that I couldn't use my mixer, the icing sugar was added all at once rather than a spoon at a time, so that was good. Also, as you can see from the picture, the meringues remained fairly white, which is always a nice surprise.