These easy chocolate meringue cookies are made with only six ingredients: egg whites, sugar, chocolate, nuts, salt, and vanilla. Feel free to leave the nuts out of the cookies or replace them with mini chocolate or brickle chips. Chocolate meringue cookies are made with no flour or additional fat and are gluten-free, too!
PrintChocolate Meringue Cookies
These easy meringue cookies are relatively light — the only fat in the cookies comes from the melted chocolate and walnuts.
- Prep Time: 10 minutes
- Cook Time: 10 minutes
- Total Time: 20 minutes
- Yield: 24 cookies 1x
- Category: Cookies, Chocolate
- Method: Bake
Ingredients
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- 3/4 cup (4 ounces) semisweet chocolate chips
- 2 large egg whites, room temperature
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/3 cup granulated sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1/2 cup finely chopped pecans or walnuts
Instructions
- Melt the chocolate chips in a bowl over simmering water or in the microwave oven. Set aside to cool.
- Preheat the oven to 325 F.
- Grease baking sheets or line with parchment paper.
- In a mixing bowl with an electric mixer, beat the egg whites until foamy; beat in the salt. Gradually beat in the sugar and continue beating on high speed until very thick and the mixture holds stiff peaks. Fold in the vanilla and the cooled melted chocolate. Fold in nuts.
- Use a tablespoon or scoop to drop the mixture onto the prepared baking sheets.
- Bake for about 9 or 10 minutes, until firm and set but still soft.
- Makes about 2 dozen cookies.
