COFFEE MERINGUE KISSES
These coffee meringue cookies are fat-free, low calorie, and flourless. Meaning Glutin free.These puffs of heaven will melt in your mouth. NOTE: It is best to make meringue cookies when the humidity is low. They will not properly crisp up in damp weather.
Provided by Stormy Stewart
Categories Candies
Number Of Ingredients 5
Steps:
- 1. Heat oven to 250 degrees.
- 2. Use nonstick cookie sheets, or line regular cookie sheets with parchment paper.
- 3. In a food processor with a metal blade, process the sugar and coffee powder until the texture of the sugar becomes very fine.
- 4. In a large mixing bowl, beat the egg whites and vanilla extract with an electric mixer at medium speed, until very frothy.
- 5. Add cream of tartar, and continue beating at medium speed until soft peaks form.
- 6. Increase beater speed to high, and gradually beat in sugar-coffee mixture.
- 7. Continue beating until soft peaks form and mixture has a glossy sheen.
- 8. To pipe cookies from pastry bag: Fill pastry bag (or 1-gallon freezer bag), fitted with Number 6 plain round pastry tube, with meringue.
- 9. Hold bag upright over prepared cookie sheets and squeeze out meringue, leaving pastry tip buried in meringue, until you have piped out a round about 1 1/2\" in diameter.
- 10. Lift up tip and stop squeezing.
- 11. Leave 1\" between cookies or, drop by tablespoonfuls onto prepared cookie sheet, leaving 2\" between cookies.
- 12. Bake 1 hour without opening oven door. Turn off oven, and let meringues dry in oven 2-3 hours more without opening oven door.
- 13. (After the first hour, it\'s okay to peek just once.)
- 14. Remove the meringues from the cookie sheet with a spatula.
- 15. Store in airtight container--makes about 3 dozen.
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