Chocolate Meringues
With Valentine's Day approaching, I thought I'd offer up an easy treat that's fun to make. You can shape these however you wish (hearts anyone?!). You can use them to decorate cakes or cookies or, my favorite, just eat them plain.
If you don't have a pastry bag just use a sealable sandwich bag and cut a little bit off the corner. You can also just use two spoons and drop them onto the parchment in little pods.
Chocolate Meringues
1/2 cup powdered sugar
1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
6 egg whites
a pinch of cream of tartar
1/2 cup granulated sugar
Preheat the oven 300F. Line two cookie sheets with parchment.
Put the powdered sugar and cocoa powder in a bowl and mix well with a whisk.
Beat the egg whites and cream of tartar in a large bowl with a hand mixer or in a stand mixer. When they get good and foamy, slowly add the granulated sugar. Beat to stiff peaks. Sift the cocoa powder/powdered sugar mixture into the eggs and fold gently by hand until well combined.
Pipe (or spoon) onto parchment in your desired shape or design.
Bake at 300F for 1 hour.
Store in an airtight container at room temperature (do not refrigerate!).
I used mine to decorate Kerry's birthday cake.
