Sep 02 2010

Chocolate Meringue Cookies Recipe – 1 Point Total


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If you’ve got a serious craving for chocolate, but don’t want to blow all your daily Weight Watchers Points, then this low calorie Chocolate Meringue Cookies Recipe is a perfect solution! Sweet, crunchy and chocolate-y, these low Point cookies totally satisfied my sweet tooth, but only cost me 1 Point Total for two fabulous cookies! Quite a bargain. I have always loved meringue cookies, but have been too intimidated to attempt baking them myself until one day when I was just so desperate for chocolate cookies, but didn’t want to spend all my Weight Watchers Points on one or two measly cookies. And this meringue cookie recipe gives you SO much bang for your buck. Absolutely, well worth the elbow grease!!

Chocolate Meringue Cookies Recipe

Ingredients:
- 5 large egg white
- 1/4 cup unsweetened cocoa
- 2 tbsp sugar
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- ½ tsp almond extract
- 1/8 tsp salt

Directions:
Preheat oven to 225°F. Cover 2 cookie sheets with parchment paper; set aside.
Combine 1 egg white, 1/4 cup of cocoa, 2 tablespoons of sugar and both flavors of extract in a large bowl. Beat the remaining 4 egg whites and salt with an electric mixer just until soft peaks form; add the remaining 1/2 cup of sugar, 1 tablespoon at a time, while beating, until the egg whites are stiff and glossy. Fold the egg whites into the chocolate mixture in three batches. Fill a pastry bag with the mixture and pipe out the cookies onto the cookie sheets. Each cookie should be about 1-inch wide. Bake 1 hour and 15 minutes until a dried texture. Let cool completely on wire racks before removing from parchment paper.

Entire recipe makes 10 servings (about 20 cookies)
Serving size is 2 cookies
Each serving = 1 Point Total

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This entry was posted by on Thursday, September 2nd, 2010 at 2:44 pm and is filed under 1 Point, American, Baking, Cookie, Dessert, French, Low Calorie, Snack, Vegetarian.

  • Kellie Redding

    these are 1 points Plus per cookie! Still pretty good:)

  • http://www.laaloosh.com/author/wendy-zitzman/ LaaLoosh

    Gayle, these are the old Points…I haven’t gotten around to updating my old recipes yet :)

  • gayle

    Are these points plus? or the old points?
    thanks…

  • Heather

    OK Thank you!!!!

  • http://www.laaloosh.com LaaLoosh

    I really wouldn't recommend it, as the sugar is an important part of the meringue texture.

  • Heather

    Could you use Splenda instead of sugar?

  • Amber

    I just made these cookies, and they're great!! I did use cream of tartar instead of salt, and baked at 250 for an hour only, they turned out wonderful! My family, who are not watching their girlish figure, loved them too! Thanks

  • Serina

    Mine were flat as well. How did the cream of tartar work??

  • Amanda

    I have always done cream of tartar as well, i'm going to try them this week, will let you all know how it goes.

  • http://www.laaloosh.com/ LaaLoosh

    Hmmm…give it a try with the cream of tartar and let us know! It wont affect the weight watchers points.

  • maria

    my cookies came out flat! in the past when i have made meringue cookies i have used cream of tarter. i wonder if that makes a difference?