Author: Bloom Designs Online
Prep time: 15 mins
Cook time: 2 hours
Total time: 2 hours 15 mins
- 4 egg whites at room temperature
- ⅛ tsp. cream of tartar
- ¼ tsp. salt
- 1 tsp. vanilla extract
- 1 cup superfine sugar (baker’s sugar found at you market in a carton)
- pink food dye
- Preheat the oven to 200 degrees.
- Use an electric mixer to beat the egg whites with cream of tartar, salt and vanilla.
- When the whites begin to hold stiff peaks, gradually add half the sugar.
- When the peaks become glossy, gently fold in the remaining sugar.
- Divide the meringue in half add a few drops of food dye to the one half of the mixture and mix until meringue turns pink.
- Put the meringue mix in a pastry bag (or a Ziploc bag with a corner cut out) fitted with a star tip.
- Repeat with second color.
- On a baking sheet with lined with parchment paper, pipe small kisses of meringue mixture.
- You can pipe the cookies close together since the mixture does not spread.
- Bake the meringues until hard, about 2 hours. They should easily release form the parchment.
- Turn the oven off, prop the door open and allow the meringues to sit in the oven for another hour or so.
Recipe by Bloom Designs at https://bloomdesignsonline.com/2016/02/mini-meringue-kisses.html
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