Recipe - Coffee Meringues

2 lg Egg whites
1 ds Cream of tartar
7 tablespoon Sugar
3 tablespoon (packed) dark brown sugar
1 teaspoon Instant espresso powder or
instant coffee powder

1. Preheat oven to 250 degrees. Line one or two cookie sheets with
parchment paper or lightly spray with cooking spray (wipe off excess with a
paper towel).

2. Beat egg whites and cream of tartar until frothy. With mixer running,
alternately add 1 T. at a time of the sugar and brown sugar. Sprinkle in a
little coffee at a time between the additions of sugar.

3. Continue beating until stiff peaks form.

4. Using a pastry bag fitted with a large star tip, pipe into small (1"2")
mounds on the cookie sheets. Or, if you don't have a pastry bag, use a
spoon to drop small dollops onto the cookie sheet.

5. Bake about 45 minutes until meringues are dry and can be easily lifted
from the sheet. To aid in the drying process, do not open oven door until
near the end of the baking time.

I think these generally come out to 1530 calories apiece. For an accurate
calorie count, divide 480 (total calories in the recipe) by the number of
meringues you get out of it.

Posted to TNT Prodigy's Recipe Exchange Newsletter by Lee Theis
theis@geocities.com on Nov 04, 1997