Meringue Wreaths
Our third day of Christmas cookies combines beauty with taste. Our Meringue Wreath cookies are sure to impress even the toughest of critics at your Christmas gatherings. It’s incredible how a handful of ingredients can create such a delectable, festive, and beautiful treat!
So check out the recipe below and get to impressing!
- Prep Time: 20
- Cook Time: 180 minutes
- Total Time: 3 hours 20 minutes
- Yield: 2 dozen 1x
Ingredients
Scale
- 8 egg whites
- ½ tsp cream of tartar
- 2 cups icing sugar (or any instant dissolving sugar)
- 2 tsp vanilla extract
Instructions
- Beat the egg whites until soft peaks form
- Add the cream of tartar and continue beating, slowly start adding sugar until stiff peaks form, then incorporate vanilla
- Pipe onto a baking tray, into wreath and add some sprinkles where the meringue meets.
- Bake the meringue slowly at 225 degrees, for 1 ½ hours, turn off oven and leave the meringues in the over for another 1 ½ hours until they are dry.