These meringue kisses are sweet, minty, and melt in your mouth! They are relatively easy to prepare, but require about four hours of oven time, so you can't be wanting to make anything else all afternoon!
Ingredients:
- 2 egg whites, room temperature
- 1c powdered sugar
- 1/8t mint extract
- Crushed candy cane bits
In a stand mixer, whip your egg whites on medium high speed until soft peaks form. This may take several minutes.
Add 1/2c powdered sugar and beat on medium speed until stiff peaks form. Mix in the mint extract. Gently fold in the remaining 1/2c powdered sugar.
Put the meringue into a pastry bag fitted with a star tip. If you don't have a pastry bag, you can put the meringue into a ziploc bag with one corner clipped off. Squeeze out the meringue into kisses about 1 inch in diameter onto parchment paper on a cookie sheet. Sprinkle with crushed candy canes mixed with about equal amount of powdered sugar.
Cook at 175 degrees for 3 hours. Then turn off your oven and leave the kisses in the oven for at least an additional hour. (I left mine in overnight, which worked great.)
Peel off of the parchment paper and serve!
mmmmmmm these are the cookies that melted in my mouth!!! yummy yummy treats!
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