Chocolate Meringues!
10 calories of crunchy, chocolaty goodness. And it makes my house smell like brownies. And I finally got to use the Pampered Chef icing squeezy-tube things that my sister told me I just had to have. A year ago.
Chocolate Meringues
Ingredients:
2 egg whites
1/4 teaspoon cream of tartar
1/2 cup sugar substitute
2 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
Optional: Almond slivers or powdered sugar to sprinkle on top. Or chocolate chips. Or M&M's...depending on how desperate you happen to be at the time.
Step 1: Preheat oven to 250F. In a large bowl, whisk the egg whites and cream of tartar at the highest speed possible.
Hang on till the chocolate. Hang on till the chocolate.
Step 4: Line a baking sheet with parchment paper, and pipe as many little meringue stars as you can get with the mixture. The recipe I followed called for 20 meringues in all, but I made mine a little smaller and got a decent amount of bite-size stars. So. Cute.
Step 5: Bake in oven for 30 minutes, until they are crisp and dry. Then turn the oven off and let the meringues cool in the oven for 30 minutes. Remove from oven, and place meringues on a pretty plate.
Eat almost all of them without looking your husband in the eye, and prepare yourself to feel ashamed and guilty about the amount of chocolaty goodness you just consumed.
Then remember that the entire recipe is no more than 100 calories (which you easily burned off when you had to chase the dogs down the street when they escaped out the back door) and immediately make plans to make another batch tomorrow night.
2 comments:
Great perspective sissy! Hehe.
-Erin
The whole recipe is only 100 calories?!?! I have got to make some of these for sure... Thanks for sharing!
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