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Choose-a-Flavor Meringue Cookies

Choose-a-Flavor Meringue Cookies

Choose-a-Flavor Meringue Cookies

Recipe By Ashlee Redger, Savory Spice Test Kitchen

Yields

50 to 60 cookies

Prep Time

15 Minutes

Cooking Time

1 Hours 40 Minutes

Recipe By Ashlee Redger, Savory Spice Test Kitchen

Can you add your own flavor to meringue cookies? You sure can. These flavored meringue cookies are sweet, crispy, slightly chewy, and always a hit. Customize yours with your favorite extract and some food coloring to make this recipe your own!

Serving Suggestions

Serve as an Eton Mess by breaking up some of the cookies and topping them with unsweetened whipped cream and fresh fruit.

Recipe Notes

This recipe was adapted from Taste of Home's Vanilla Meringue Cookies. *Use food coloring to color the meringue before piping to have beautiful pastel meringue cookies. If your flavor isn't listed, feel free to use any one of your favorite extracts in this recipe!

Ingredients

Savory Spice ingredients in this recipe

  • Mayan Sea Salt

    This sea salt has a clean appearance and flavor, but is also an interesting tie to the ancient Mayan way of life. Straight from the sea to your tab...

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  • Natural Butterscotch Extract

    Full of rich, buttery decadence. This extract adds sweet butterscotch flavor to baked goods, desserts, and drinks. Flavor cakes, ice cream, and cof...

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  • Natural Cherry Extract

    Bring the sweet, subtle tartness and aroma of red cherries to baked goods, desserts, and drinks. Make homemade cherry cola by mixing with soda, or ...

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  • Natural Coconut Extract

    Enjoy the flavor and aroma of fresh coconut. Adds real coconut flavor to baked goods, desserts, and drinks. Use to fortify drinks like piña coladas...

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  • Natural Hazelnut Extract

    Add rich hazelnut flavor to baked goods, desserts, or your morning cup of coffee. Try hazelnut extract in baking recipes that highlight chocolate o...

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  • Natural Lavender Extract

    The fresh flavor and aroma of a field of lavender. Add lavender flavor to baked goods, desserts, and drinks where you want floral essence. Use for ...

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  • Natural Maple Extract

    Add real maple flavor to baked goods, desserts, and drinks, or use to make homemade maple syrup. Use for breakfast classics like pancakes, French t...

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  • Natural Peppermint Extract

    As soon as you open this, you'll know why many believe it's the best peppermint they've ever used. Handy around the holidays, but useful year-round...

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  • Natural Vanilla Flavor

    The perfect vanilla for bakers searching for an economical option for vanilla extract that doesn't sacrifice great vanilla flavor needed when makin...

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  • Pure Almond Extract

    Perfect baking extract for adding real almond taste to cookies, cakes, and pastries. Infuse coffee with almond flavor. Almond extract can also be u...

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  • Pure Lemon Extract

    Smells and tastes like a fresh-picked lemon. Clean, fruity flavor. Perfect for lemon meringue pie or lemon chiffon. It's also the best lemon extrac...

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  • Pure Madagascar Vanilla Extract

    Our pure vanilla extract from Madagascar has that smooth, classically rich vanilla flavor that comes to mind you think of vanilla, and is made usin...

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  • Pure Orange Extract

    Sweet and juicy. Uses only the finest Valencia orange oil from California, resulting in the best orange flavor for any of your baked goods, dessert...

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  • 2X Pure Madagascar Vanilla Extract

    Vanilla lovers, rejoice! 2X Pure Madagascar Vanilla Extract is a double-strength vanilla that uses twice the amount of vanilla beans than are typic...

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  • Pure Mexican Vanilla Extract

    Use this uniquely flavored vanilla from Mexico with a cinnamon twist for baking. Add to desserts like cookies, cakes, custards, frostings, meringue...

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  • Pure Tahitian Vanilla Extract

    Our extracts are getting an upgrade! The labels look different, but the extracts are the same. Find them at a store near you coming this spring. Pu...

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Directions

Step 1: Make meringue

Preheat oven to 250 degrees. To the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the whisk attachment, add egg whites, cream of tartar, and Mayan Sea Salt. Beat on medium-high speed until egg whites are foamy. Turn speed down to medium-low and slowly sprinkle in sugar. Turn speed back up to medium-high for 7 to 10 min. until stiff, glossy peaks form.

Step 2: Flavor and pipe

Add in extract of choice and food coloring (if using) and mix until thoroughly combined. Spoon meringue into a piping bag or plastic bag and snip the corner with scissors. Pipe small, bite-sized cookies onto a parchment-lined baking sheet.

Step 3: Bake

Bake for 35 to 40 min., then turn off oven without opening the door. Leave meringue cookies in oven for 1 hour. Remove from oven, cool completely, and store in an airtight container at room temperature.