Chocolate Meringue Cookies

These crisp, flawless chocolate meringue cookies are only 6 ingredients! They’re flavored with cocoa powder for a rich chocolate taste and are dipped in melted dark chocolate — these make a great holiday cookie tray addition as well as a sweet low-calorie snack for any New Year resolutions!

Hello again! Sam here from Sugar Spun Run with yet another cookie recipe for you! Today I want to share a recipe for Chocolate Meringue Cookies. These cookies are sweet little treats that are great for your holiday cookie tray, but because of the low calorie nature of meringues, they’ll also make a great resolution-friendly recipe for the New Year! While the recipe for chocolate meringue cookies is really a fairly simple one, many of you know that meringue can be a little bit finicky at times. Read on and I’ll share some of my best tips for meringue that comes out perfectly every time.

I adapted these chocolate meringue cookies from my classic meringue cookie recipe, and while I shared a lot of my no-fail tips over there, I want to reiterate those here and share some tips to make sure your meringues come out perfectly, as the technique does take a bit of work to get the hang of and they can be finicky. For starters, make sure that the bowl and beaters that you are using are completely clean, dry, and grease-free. Any grease can keep your meringue from turning out right. Also, make sure that you separate your egg whites and yolks carefully, as even a drop of egg yolk in the batter can mess up the meringue. It’s also important to whip your meringue to stiff peaks. If you’ve made whipped cream before, you’re probably already familiar with the concept of stiff peaks. This simply means that if you lift up the beater straight out of the meringue batter, the peaks that form stand tall rather than folding over or back into themselves. Once you’ve achieved stiff peaks, be careful to not over-mix the batter, which will ruin the structure of your meringues.

Follow these tips and you will have perfect chocolate meringues, and I hope that you love them as much as my family did!! All nutritional information is based on third party calculations and is only an estimate. Each recipe and nutritional value will vary depending on the brands you use, measuring methods and portion sizes per household.