Chocolate Chip Meringues

By Bostoncook

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Ingredients

• 3 egg whites
• 1/4 teaspoon cream of tartar
• 1/8 teaspoon salt
• 3/4 cup sugar
• 1/4 cup cocoa
• 1/2 cup miniature chocolate chip
• 1/4 teaspoon vanilla

Preparation

Step 1

1. Heat oven to 250. Cover a baking sheet with parchment, secure with masking tape.

2. Beat egg-salt until foamy. Combine sugar and 3 tbs cocoa. Gradually beat into eggs, 1 tb at a time, beating until stiff peaks form. Gently fold in chips and vanilla.

3. Spoon into pastry bag, pipe 30 mounds 1/4" apart on sheet. Bake 1 1/2 hours. Turn oven off, cool meringues in closed oven 1 hour. Remove from paper. Dust with cocoa from fine sieve.

Notes: Despite the fact that I can't shape meringues to save my life, these were great. Putting these into a pastry bag didn't work, since the chips clogged up the end of the bag.