Chocolate Meringue ‘S’ Biscuits

These are a mainstay of almost every pastry shop in Switzerland. They are a sweet biscuit, as anything meringue-based tends to be. In the past I always used unsweetened chocolate to make them, but I once accidentally substituted some premium dark chocolate and the biscuits were already in the oven before I realized my mistake. Though still sweet (the sugar in the chocolate didn’t really make them appreciably sweeter), they had a much more complex flavour because of the superior quality of t