Total Steps
4
Ingredients
4
Tools Needed
4
Ingredients
- 0.25 teaspoon cream of tartar
- 1.0 teaspoon Vanilla
- 8.0 tablespoon Sugar, preferably superfine
- 2.0 count Egg whites, at room temperature
Instructions
Step 1
Make these sweet confections, sometimes known as "kisses", anytime you have a few extra egg whites. Be sure the whites are at room temperature before you begin to beat them, and add the sugar very gradually so that the egg whites do not lose any volume.
Step 2
Preheat oven at 250F. Cover a cookie sheet with foil and spray it with a no-stick cooking spray.
Step 3
<a href="/technique/3CYMY2D7/beating">Beat</a> the egg whites until stiff, but not <a href="/technique/RF7SRX43/drying">dry</a>, and add 6 tablespoons of sugar, one <a href="/technique/NX588QBK/spooning">spoon</a> at a time, <a href="/technique/3CYMY2D7/beating">beating</a> well between each addition. Add the <a href="/technique/R3P5MM3Z/creaming">cream</a> of <a href="/technique/877FQBR8/tartare">tartar</a>, the vanilla, and <a href="/technique/8M4FMXQ6/folding">fold</a> in the remaining 2 tablespoons of sugar. Shape the meringues on the cookie sheet with a pastry bag, a tube, or a <a href="/technique/NX588QBK/spooning">spoon</a>.
Step 4
<a href="/technique/RNT367Z2/baking">Bake</a> the meringues for an hour. <a href="/technique/B52FHCF2/turning">Turn</a> oven off. Let meringues stand in oven for another 2 hours or until completely <a href="/technique/GZFHJC5K/cooling">cooled</a>.