Looking for a cookie that travels well, even in the mail? Try these deliciously airy, light and low-fat meringues, a perfect confection for your holiday cookie exchange. Color them with red and green McCormick Food Coloring for a festive take!
10m
PREP TIME
45m
COOK TIME
68
CALORIES
5
INGREDIENTS
Looking for a cookie that travels well, even in the mail? Try these deliciously airy, light and low-fat meringues, a perfect confection for your holiday cookie exchange. Color them with red and green McCormick Food Coloring for a festive take!
10m
PREP TIME
45m
COOK TIME
68
CALORIES
5
INGREDIENTS
Ingredients 12 Servings
- 4 egg whites, at room temperature
- 1/2 teaspoon McCormick® Cream Of Tartar
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 teaspoon McCormick® All Natural Pure Vanilla Extract
- 25 to 30 drops McCormick® Assorted Food Colors & Egg Dye
INSTRUCTIONS
- 1 Preheat oven to 225°F.
- 2 Beat egg whites in large bowl with electric mixer on medium speed until frothy. (If using a freestanding mixer, use 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. (Divide meringue mixture into 2 separate bowls, if desired, tinting one red and one green. Make green by mixing equal parts yellow and blue.)
- 3 Drop by rounded measuring teaspoonfuls about 1 inch apart onto 2 large foil-lined baking sheets sprayed with no stick cooking spray.
- 4 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.
NUTRITION INFORMATION
(per Serving)
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