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Meringue Cookies

CarbsPerServing:28g carbs total Effort:Easy
Ingredients:
4 egg white
dash salt
dash cream of tartar
1 teaspoon vanilla2 tablespoons good
chocolate
1/2 cup nuts -- to 3/4 cup,
chopped
1/2 cup unsweetened
coconut meat -- finely
shredded

How to Prepare:
you need to be home (and patient)for at least an hour to make these

Beat egg whites until stiff with dash of salt and dash of cream of tartar
Add vanilla ( or another extract) In food processor grate chocolate Chop nuts. Mix chocolate, nuts and coconut, then fold into eggwhites. Make
Tablespoonsful into cookie size drops on buttered cookie sheet--they will not change shape
or spread or anything--- Bake at 275 for 30 minutes. DO NOT OPEN OVEN FOR
ANY REASON NO MATTER
WHAT OR THESE WILL BE
RUINED!!!!!!! Turn oven off leaving cookies inside for 2 (two) more hours WITHOUT OPENING OVEN AT ALL!!!!!!

NOTES : Carbs for
chocolate not included in above total - adjust accordingly 15 carbs included
for nuts.

Serving Ideas : there are lots of great combinations, and these are about 1 carb per
cookie. you could add a half a teaspoon of stevia to the eggwhites, but I try to cut out sweet everywhere I can.
Addiction, you know.

2 T butterscotch chips and
cashews
2 T dark chocolate and
walnuts
2 T white chocolate and
macadamias
2 T milk chocolate and
pecans
sometimes it is hard to
have the chocolate around. I try to buy tiny
quantities of good
(expensive) stuff at a local health/premium food co-op.