Healthy Recipes
Meringue Cookies
Ingredients :
- 3 egg whites
- 1 small pinch of cream or tartar
- ½ tsp. extract (vanilla, lemon, orange, coconut, etc…)
- 1 tbsp. sugar
- ½ cup minus 1 tbsp. Splenda
Directions
1. Preheat oven to 225 degrees.
2. Line baking sheet with parchment paper.
3. Start beating egg whites with an electric mixer on low until frothy.
4. Add cream of tartar and move mixer to high
5. Add the sugar and then the Splenda, 1 tbsp. at a time until it is all mixed in.
6. Add the extract.
7. Beat until stiff peaks.
8. Carefully move mixture into a large Ziploc bag.
9. Cut one corner of bag and pipe cookies onto baking sheet.
10. Bake for 1 hour. Turn off oven and let sit for at least four hours.
Cookies should be light and crunchy and VERY low in calories.This whole recipe is roughly 85 calories of protein and sugar.