Christmas Tree Meringue Cookies
These cute Christmas Tree Meringue Cookies are crisp, light, and melt in your mouth. They’re extra festive in green with cute sprinkles on top.
Ingredients
- 4 egg whites
- ⅛ teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 cup white granulated sugar
- Green food coloring, (As needed to achieve desired color)
- Sprinkles
- A small amount of decorating icing
- Star sprinkles
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 200ºF.
- Beat egg whites, salt, and vanilla until foamy and white.
- Continue beating while adding sugar, a few tablespoons at a time.
- You can also add a few drops of food coloring at a time while beating until desired color is reached..
- Beat egg whites until stiff peaks form.
- Transfer to a piping bag fitted with a decorating tip. I used Wilton #21 for the small trees, and 1M for the large.
- Pipe onto parchment lined baking sheets in a zigzag pattern, starting small at the top, and larger at the bottom, finishing with a short tree stem in the center.
- Sprinkle lightly with desired sprinkles.
- Bake in center of oven for 1 hour, then turn oven off, and let rest in oven for another hour.
- Remove from oven and let cool completely.
- Attach a star to the top of each tree, using a small amount of decorating icing.
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Notes
Tips
- To prepare for making meringue, make sure all of your utensils (bowls, beaters, piping bag and tips, etc.) are free of grease. To do this, you can wash them with a grease cutting dish soap, and rinse with white vinegar. This is an especially good way to degrease piping bags and tips that may have residue from butter based icings.
- If you can, leave your egg whites out at room temperature for 30 minutes before whipping. They’ll aerate better at room temperature.
- Be careful when separating your eggs. Egg yolks prevent the whites from whipping up, just like oil and grease on your equipment will.
- Pipe out all of the meringue batter once it’s made. Unfortunately, it doesn’t keep well for later use.
- Humidity is the enemy of meringue, so try to avoid making these on a humid day for the best results.
Nutrition
Calories: 23kcalCarbohydrates: 6gProtein: 0.4gFat: 0.02gSodium: 14mgPotassium: 6mgSugar: 6gCalcium: 0.3mgIron: 0.01mg
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