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Meringue Cookies- Simple, Easy and Delicious!
I’ve been racking my brain for the past couple of weeks for a new PERFECT Valentine’s Day dessert to share with you and you best believe I have found it!
I made a trial run batch of Meringue Cookies yesterday and took them to the Church for a youth activity. Those lucky ducks get to eat a lot of my trial treats. 😉 I was skeptical about how they would react to these cookies, because they definitely aren’t your average cookie.
If you haven’t ever had a Meringue Cookie before, the final cookie is hard but melts in your mouth like cotton candy does.
I had 20 taste testers last night and I had at least 12 come up to me and say ‘you have to give my mom that recipe!’ They were fighting over the last few cookies and ended up cutting them into fourths so everyone could have another bite.
If that isn’t proof of how delicious Meringue Cookies are, I don’t know what is!
How to make Meringue Cookies
The first step to making Meringue Cookies is to make the meringue.
Meringue is just whipped egg whites. You’ll need to separate the egg yolk from the egg whites. I do this by cracking the egg while keeping the egg yolk in one side of the egg shell. I then transfer the egg yolk to the other shell while letting as much egg white as possible drop into the bowl.
You can just crack the egg over your hand and let the egg white slip through your fingers while you gently hold onto the egg yolk, if you’d rather.
Once you have your egg whites in a bowl, use either an electric hand mixer or stand mixer to whip the eggs. The stand mixer will do this much faster, but the hand mixer will work fine as well! Whip the eggs at the highest speed until stiff peaks form.
You’ll know you have stiff peaks when you turn your mixer off and the beaters up, the meringue will hold shape.
Turn your mixer back on and sloooooowly add in your sugar, mixing thoroughly in between. When all of the sugar has been added, the mixture should be thick and glossy.
Next, my favorite part! Flavoring. 😊 My local grocery store carries every flavor of extract imaginable! My favorites have been Raspberry, Strawberry and Vanilla. I really want to give orange a try.. or maybe swirl orange and vanilla to make it like a creamsicle.. I may be onto something here!
Mix in your flavoring and food coloring if you’d like. The food coloring is totally optional. I would suggest using gel food coloring so you aren’t adding more liquid than necessary.
Cover a cookie sheet with parchment paper (must use parchment paper!) and fill a piping bag full of the Meringue Cookie Batter. I like to make them look like roses (which is so fitting for Valentines Day coming up!). To make the cookies look like roses you will want a closed star piping tip. They come in many different sizes, I like the 2D.
To pipe the rose, you will start in the center and apply pressure to the piping bag while circling around the center point until you have created the rose.
Once all of the cookies have been piped out, you will bake them low and slow in the oven to dry them out!
Bake at 170° for 2 hours. (Nope, not a typo.😉)
After 2 hours, pull them out of the oven and allow them to cool on the pan. The cookies should peel off of the parchment paper easily once cooled.
After the cookies have cooled, melt some chocolate and spread some chocolate on the bottom of each cookie. Then drizzle chocolate all over the top of the cookie.
Allow the chocolate to set up and ENJOY! (Yes, you can totally toss them in the fridge at this point to help the chocolate set up quicker!! I am so guilty of that.)
Other Valentines Day Desserts you’ll LOVE:
Chocolate Covered Strawberries
Chocolate Cut-Out Rose Cookies
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Meringue Cookies
Ingredients
- 4 egg whites
- 3/4 cup granulated sugar
- 1 tsp favorite extract, (I like vanilla, raspberry or strawberry!)
- 2 cups chocolate candy melts
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 170°. Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper. Set aside.
- Using either a stand mixer or electric hand mixer, whip the egg whites until stiff peaks form.
- Slowly and gradually add in the sugar, mixing well in between each addition.
- Mix in the extract and gel food coloring if desired.
- Transfer the cookie batter to a large piping bag.
- Pipe the cookies out onto the parchment paper. The cookies will not spread at all while baking.
- Bake at 170° for 2 hours.
- Remove the cookies from the oven after they have baked for 2 hours and allow the cookies to cool on the pan.
- While the cookies are cooling, melt the chocolate candy melts. Spread a thin layer onto the bottom of each cookie and then drizzle the remaining chocolate on top.
Meringue Cookies
Meringue Cookies are bite-sized, sweet, light and airy! Meringue cookies are made with just 3 ingredients! Egg whites, sugar and flavoring is all it takes!
Course Dessert
Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 2 hours
Total Time 2 hours 15 minutes
Servings 24 cookies
Ingredients
- 4 egg whites
- 3/4 cup granulated sugar
- 1 tsp favorite extract (I like vanilla, raspberry or strawberry!)
- 2 cups chocolate candy melts
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 170°. Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper. Set aside.
- Using either a stand mixer or electric hand mixer, whip the egg whites until stiff peaks form.
- Slowly and gradually add in the sugar, mixing well in between each addition.
- Mix in the extract and gel food coloring if desired.
- Transfer the cookie batter to a large piping bag.
- Pipe the cookies out onto the parchment paper. The cookies will not spread at all while baking.
- Bake at 170° for 2 hours.
- Remove the cookies from the oven after they have baked for 2 hours and allow the cookies to cool on the pan.
- While the cookies are cooling, melt the chocolate candy melts. Spread a thin layer onto the bottom of each cookie and then drizzle the remaining chocolate on top.
Where’s the recipe?The ingredients.The measurements.
Hi Jill- The ingredients and measurements can be found in the printable recipe card at the bottom of the post.
Hi there!
European here, is that 170 degrees Fahrenheit or Celsius?
Fahrenheit! 🙂