
Easy Meringue Cookies
Get ready to create the perfect meringue with only 5 ingredients using this easy meringue cookies recipe. These cookies melt in your mouth!
- Course Dessert
- Cuisine American
- Keyword cookies, dessert, egg whites, meringue
- Prep Time 10 minutes
- Cook Time 45 minutes
- Total Time 55 minutes
- Servings 12
- Calories 75 kcal
Ingredients
- 4 egg whites at room temperature
- 1/2 teaspoon Cream of Tartar
- 1 cup sugar
- 2 teaspoons Vanilla Extract
- food coloring of your choice number of drops dependent on how dark you'd like them
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 225°F.
- Beat egg whites in large bowl with electric mixer on medium speed until frothy. (If using a freestanding mixer, use the wire whisk attachment.) Add cream of tartar; beat until soft peaks form. Increase speed to medium-high. Add sugar, 1 tablespoon at a time, beating until sugar is dissolved and stiff peaks form. Beat in extract and food color until well blended. Gently stir in chips, if desired.
- Drop by rounded measuring teaspoonfuls about 1 inch apart onto 2 large foil-lined baking sheets sprayed with no-stick cooking spray.
- Bake both sheets of meringues at the same time 45 minutes. Turn oven off. Let meringues stand in oven 1 hour or until completely cooled.
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