Mint Chocolate Chip Meringues

This recipe, Mint Chocolate Chip Meringues is from Diabetic Connect.  Whenever my son is with me when I go food shopping, he always buys Chocolate Meringues.  So he will be my ginny pig…I hope he will like them.

Mint Chocolate Chip Meringues Recipe

Mint Chocolate Chip Meringues

3 egg whites

1-4 tsp. cream of tartar

Pinch of salt

¾ cup sugar

3 Tbsp. unsweetened or Dutch process cocoa

1/3 cup mini chocolate chips

¾ tsp. mint or peppermint extract

 

Preheat the oven to 250 F.  Cover a baking sheet with parchment paper.

Beat the egg whites, cream of tartar and salt with an electric mixer on high until foamy.  Combine the sugar and cocoa.  Gradually add the cocoa mixture to the egg whites, and beat until stiff peaks form.  Gently fold in the chocolate chips and mint extract.

Spoon the mixture into a pastry bag fitted with a ½ inch round tip.  Pipe 30 cookies, ¼ inch apart on prepared baking sheet.

Bake in cookies for 1 ½ hours.  Turn the oven off, and let the cookies cool in the oven for 1 hour.  Store in a tightly sealed container.

 

(Recipe for Mint Chocolate Chip Meringues came from Diabetic Connect, 2014)