Cookie Recipes

Lemon Meringue Cookies

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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

  1. Heat oven to 400 degrees F. Line two cookie sheets with baking parchment and set aside.
  2. Beat egg whites and salt in small bowl at high electric mixer speed until frothy.
  3. With mixer still at high speed, add sugar gradually and continue beating until meringue peaks stiffly (about 4 minutes).
  4. Beat in vanilla extract, then by hand fold in lemon zest.
  5. Drop meringue from rounded teaspoon onto prepared cookie sheets, spacing 2 inches apart.
  6. Set in oven, immediately turn oven off, and let cookies remain in the oven for 2 hours (you can leave them in overnight).
  7. 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.



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