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coffee meringue kisses

karlyn255 avatar
Recipe by
Stormy Stewart
@karlyn255
Mio, MI

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.

method Bake

Ingredients For coffee meringue kisses

  • 3/4 c
    sugar
  • 3 tsp
    instant coffee powder
  • 4
    egg whites, room temperature
  • 1 tsp
    vanilla extract
  • 1/4
    cream of tartar

How To Make coffee meringue kisses

  • 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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