Recipe - Mochaccino Meringues

4 Egg whites (or 6 t. powdered
"Just Whites" plus One half c.
warm water it works!)
One fourth teaspoon Cream of tartar (not all
recipes use it, if you
don't have it)
One half cup Sugar (other recipes use up
to 1 cup or more .. even
One half c. is very sweet to my
taste and I like sweet)
2 teaspoon Espresso powder (can use
instant coffee, I'm sure)
2 teaspoon Cocoa (I sprinkle it in over
a small sieve to avoid
lumps)
1 teaspoon Vanilla extract

OPTIONAL
2 tablespoon Chocolate chips, chopped in
the food processor or
blender use less to
spread throughout the
cookies or you can use
minichips, but I never
have those around)

Preheat oven to 250F. Prepare 2 cookie sheets with parchment paper, brown
paper bag or foil (I use parchment but see the other suggestions often).
Whip room temperature egg whites with cream of tartar until foamy. Add
sugar and whip at higher speed to stiff peaks. Fold in (by hand) espresso
powder, sifted cocoa (and chips, if using). Drop with a spoon, ice cream
scoop or pipe (I've been playing with piping from an everyday gallon
plastic storage bag snip a tiny bit off the corner) onto the baking sheet
in whatever size you want (I like very small, about the size of a quarter
to a half dollar to pop some flavor and crunch in my mouth when I have that
urge). Bake for 60 minutes (stagger sheets and exchange oven racks halfway
through), then turn off oven and leave them in for 28 hours. (The oven
temperature varies in recipes from 250 300 degrees .. I've had some seem
"burnt," especially with cocoa in them, so I keep it low and move the
sheets). Time varies, too .. some say as little as bake 25 minutes and
leave in for 25, then cool on rack, others bake 40 minutes, etc. ... just
experiment for your preference, if you like the concept of meringues at
all. The above is my preference.)

Makes about 60 small cookies. Store in airtight tin. These don't last
long... they go soggy within a few days, in my experience.
Posted to Digest eatlf.v097.n050 by music_class@earthlink.net (Katja) on
Feb 22, 1997.