Chocolate Meringue Wreaths

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Preparation info
  • Makes about

    30

    cookies
    • Difficulty

      Medium

Appears in
Cookies Unlimited

By Nick Malgieri

Published 2000

  • About

These ring-shaped cookies are good at any time of the year, but always seem so festive at the holidays. They keep well in a tin, but are really best on the day they are baked when they are still a little soft and chewy in the center.

Ingredients

  • ½ cup egg whites (from about 3 or 4 large eggs)
  • Pinch salt

Method

  1. Set racks in the upper and lower thirds of the oven and preheat to 300 degrees.
  2. Half-fill a medium saucepan with water and on moderate heat, bring to a boil. Lower the heat so the water simmers.
  3. In the bowl of a standing electric mixer, combi