Pies include cherry pie, coconut meringue and coconut cream pie. Royal icing is made with sugar and egg white or meringue powder. In Hong Kong, the (, Napoleon) is layered with buttercream, meringue and walnuts. The meringue and almond paste are mixed together to form the macaron mixture. The consistency also makes pavlova significantly more fragile than meringue. The traditional Conch version uses the egg whites to make a meringue topping. I wrote a funny big piece of lemon meringue pie. In Italy it is occasionally topped with cream, meringue or almonds. Either Italian or French meringue can be combined with ground almonds. They are sold in 3 main flavors&colon; meringue (white interior), strawberry (pink) and vanilla (yellow). Displayed at right is the color lemon meringue. Later, Max Factor created a popular lipstick color called Strawberry Meringue. Egg whites provide the meringue with necessary proteins that form the meringue foam. This prevents the sugar from recrystallizing and giving the meringue a gritty, undesirable texture. The recipe is a merger of the traditional Russian pastila with French meringue.