Cookie Recipes
Lemon Meringue Cookies
Yield: about 2 dozen cookies
Ingredients
- 2 large egg whites
- 1/8 teaspoon salt
- 2/3 cup granulated sugar
- 1 teaspoon finely grated lemon zest
Instructions
- Heat oven to 400 degrees F. Line two cookie sheets with baking parchment and set aside.
- Beat egg whites and salt in small bowl at high electric mixer speed until frothy.
- With mixer still at high speed, add sugar gradually and continue beating until meringue peaks stiffly (about 4 minutes).
- Beat in vanilla extract, then by hand fold in lemon zest.
- Drop meringue from rounded teaspoon onto prepared cookie sheets, spacing 2 inches
apart.
- Set in oven, immediately turn oven off, and let cookies remain in the oven for 2 hours (you can leave them in overnight).
- Peel meringue off parchment and store in airtight container.
Nutrition
Per 1 cookie: 23 calories, 0g fat, 0g cholesterol and 17mg sodium
Attribution
Posted by kdipaolo at Recipe Goldmine May 30, 2001.