Mint Chocolate Meringue Cookies

Mint Chocolate Meringue Sandwich Cookies

Christmas is just around the corner.  LITERALLY! And pot-lucks are generally pretty popular for gatherings.  Originally I wanted to make Macaron cookies, the colourful one, the ones that you see floating around the internet lately..                                                                 

How hard could they be! I was wrong…. They aren’t very hard but it requires almonds which I don’t have.  By-the-way, It was 9pm and I wasn’t going to go out in the snowy night to buy almonds.  Yes I could purchase it the next day, but I had the craving to bake THEN and THERE!!!  I originally thought they were Meringues filled with icing then sandwiched together, they are more complicated than that, so I decided to stick to my original thought and do this instead.=)

 

TA-DA!

 Super Easy Mint-Chocolate Meringue Cookies

Yield 24

Utensils:

Piping bag and tip (if you don't want to spend money on this, just use a spoon and spoon it onto the baking pan)

Parchment paper

Baking Pan

Ingredients:

Meringue cookies

3 egg whites

½ teaspoon cream of tartar

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

¾ cup of sugar

¼ cup of powdered sugar

1 teaspoon Corn starch

Icing filling:

3 tablespoon store bought icing

½ teaspoon mint extract

Directions:

Meringue

1.       Pre-head oven 250 degrees

2.       With an electric mixer, or you can do it manually with a whisk and a bowl, whisk egg whites and cream of tartar

3.       Whip eggs on high speed

4.       Add vanilla extract

5.       Slowly add sugar while whisking, one table spoon at a time

6.       Stop when egg whites reached stiff peaks

7.       Add corn starch and powder sugar into mixture and fold to combine

8.       Fill piping bad with meringue and pipe onto a baking pan lined parchment paper

**you can pipe the meringue fairly closely together, approximately an inch apart from each other, they don’t expand very much.  Unlike cake.

9.       Bake meringue for 1h-1/2 hours

10.   Cool for 30 min

Frosting Filling

1.       Mix chocolate frosting and mint extract ~ easy!

Assembly

1.       Spread chocolate frosting and sandwich together!

Tip: if you like, you can add food colouring to the meringue.  I added red food colouring but I don’t think I added enough as seen in my picture above.  =(