Healthy & Delicious: Meringue Cookies

Name: Healthy & Delicious: Meringue Cookies
Prep time: 45 min
Cook time: 45 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 30
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 0 teaspoons cream of tartar; 2 egg whites; 4 drops green food coloring (optional); 0 teaspoons peppermint extract (optional); 0 teaspoons salt; 118 milliliters white sugar

Healthy & Delicious: Meringue Cookies might be just the dessert you are searching for. One portion of this dish contains about 0g of protein, 0g of fat, and a total of 14 calories. This recipe covers 0% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. This recipe serves 30. If you have sugar, salt, peppermint extract, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it. It is a good option if you're following a gluten free, dairy free, fodmap friendly, and vegetarian diet. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes around 45 minutes.

Instructions

Heat oven to 225°F and line two cookie sheets with aluminum foil.

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Aluminum Foil

Baking Sheet

Oven

Using a Stand

Mixer or good hand mixer, beat egg whites, salt, and cream of tartar on medium-high speed until soft peaks form. Slowly add sugar and keep beating until stiff peaks form. (DO NOT underbeat.) If using extract and food coloring, add at the end and beat for another 2 or 3 minutes.

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Cream Of Tartar

Food Color

Egg Whites

Extract

Sugar

Salt

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Hand Mixer

Blender

Spoon mixture into a plastic bag and squeeze out most of the air.

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Ziploc Bags

Cut off one small corner of the bag and pipe cookie-sized dollops of meringue on to cookie sheets, about 1 inch apart. (If done correctly, the cookies will stay in those exact shapes when finished.)

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