A pile of beaten egg whites with fruit and cream: What a pavlova!

The pavlova is a creamy confection that melts in your mouth. Topped here with canned peaches, cream and a homemade caramel sauce. Yum!

Pavlovas are sweet and light as air. Simply delish!

It feels like everyone and their mother is making pavlova these days. I remember back in the 1970s, when my late sister Elizabeth first went to Australia to study and came back with a strange plastic egg-shaped dome – White Wings’ Pavlova Magic – which contained a packet of powdered egg white and gelatine.