easy meringue cookies

These Christmas Tree Cookies are a fun and festive meringue cookie that are light as air and melt in your mouth! A super cute Christmas cookie perfect for your holiday party!

Christmas Tree Cookies

Cup sugar

cream of tartar

almond extract

green gel food coloring

multi color sprinkles

star sprinkles

Heat oven to 200 degrees. Place egg whites, sugar, and cream of tartar in a bowl of your stand mixer. Place bowl over boiling water on the stove. Whisk vigorously until sugar dissolved and there are no more sugar granules visible. Remove from heat and whisk in extract.

Using the whisk attachment on stand mixer, mix on medium high until egg whites become bright white but still runny. Add in food coloring to the color you want and continue to beat to form stiff peaks.

Place mixture into piping bag with large star tip. Pipe cookies onto baking sheet lined with parchment paper or silicone mat. Make cookies about 1 inch in width, 2 inches high and place 1 inch apart on baking sheet. Sprinkle with the multi color sprinkles.

Cook for 2 hours. After 2 hours, turn off oven, open door slightly and let sit in oven an additional 2 hours.

Place the star sprinkles on top with a tiny dab of frosting. Serve and enjoy!

These Easy Meringue Cookies are sweet, crispy and as light as a cloud. They are perfect for any occasion and can be dressed up with different colors of flavors or used as decor on cakes and pies. Also known as Forgotten Cookies, Meringue Cookies are simple to make (with only 3 ingredients + water) and this fat-free dessert will melt in your mouth!  They taste a little like crunchy marshmallows!

Easy Meringue Cookies

meringue powder or two egg whites

water

granulated sugar

vanilla extract (or other flavor of your choice)

Preheat oven to 250°F. Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper or silicone mats.

In the bowl of an electric mixer, add the meringue powder and water. Mix with the whisk attachment on high speed until soft peaks form. 

With the mixer still running on high, gradually add the sugar, 1 tablespoon at a time, until it's all used and stiff peaks form. Scrape down the sides of the bowl as needed. 

Check the batter for smoothness by rubbing a small amount between your fingers to be sure all sugar is disolved and it's no longer gritty. If it is grainy, mix longer until it's smooth and glossy.

Scoop some batter into a piping bag fitted with large piping tip. Pipe desired shapes onto the cookie sheets.

Bake for 45 minutes at 250°F. Turn the oven off, slightly open the oven door and leave the cookies overnight (or for 6-8 hours) until they're completely dry and crispy.  Peel off and enjoy!

I make these using egg whites instead of the powder 
and add pecans-  I love them!

Absolutley awesome! These mereinguies are light and fluffy, I reccomend leaving them in the oven overngiht. They have a slightly bitter taste from the powder if you use too much, so be really careful and to be extra sure try using extra 1/2 tsp vanilla extract.

Hi, I am wondering if you have tried any of the sugar substitutes such as granular monk fruit?  I'd like to try a sugar-free version.

Easy recipe! I added the color with almond flavor while it was still whipping and they came out great!! I’ve always been petrified to make these, but it was easier than I thought. Thank you for such an easy recipe.

I have been beating for a long time now and it still feels grainy :/ what can I do?

I made Roses today for the first time and they turned out great, so thank you for this simple recipe! Only question, I made small bite size pieces and they cam out tasting like burnt marshmallow. I mean I like that taste but they aren't supposed to taste like that! How long should I switch cooking time to when make smaller sizes?

It didn’t work :( 
Once all the sugar was slowly added after soft peaks, it deflated... I’ve tried 3x now with meringue powder.
It just deflated and does not come back up, maybe im doing something wrong but it did work 

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