Step 1

Preheat your oven to Prep two rimmed baking sheets with parchment paper

Step 2

In a clean mixing bowl, combine together the egg whites, cream of tartar dash of salt and the extract. Beat this on high until the mixture appears foamy. You can add optional food coloring at this point as well.

Step 3

Next, you can add the sugar alternative. Do this one tablespoon at a time, continuing to beat the ingredients. Continue to beat the ingredients until stiff peaks form. The batter should appear to be stiff enough to hold its own if it were to be dropped

Step 4

Use a tablespoon, piping bag outfitted with a star tip, or a plastic zip top bag with a cut corner to from the cookies on the prepped cookie sheets. Make sure that you leave room between the cookies. Bake these cookies for an hour and a half or until the cookies begin to brown. Then, leave the oven door closed, turn off the oven (use the oven light to check on the cookies) and allow the cookies to set. This can take from one hour to up to eight hours depending on how crisp you like your meringue cookies to be.