Meringue Cookie Recipe

One of my husband's favorite sweets is meringues. They are considered a heart healthy treat as they do not contain butter or oil of any kind and are made from egg whites and sugar. They are light and fluffy and you can color and flavor them any way you want.

Here is the recipe for Peppermint Meringues

Items you will need:

Mixer, medium bowl, foil, cookie sheet
2 eggwhites,
1/8 teas. salt
1/8 teas. cream of tartar
1/2 cup sugar
10 peppermint candies (crushed)
Red food coloring (optional)

Line your cookie sheet with foil and turn your oven on to 225 degrees.
Place egg whites in bowl and let set until room temperature (this helps them to fluff up better). Beat egg whites until just foamy and add the salt and cream of tartar.
Continue beating until they become stiff high peaks (this will take about 4 min.).Gradually add sugar, a tablespoon at a time as you continue to beat the eggwhites. Add a few drops of red food coloring and beat until mixed and turns pink.
Gently fold in the peppermint candies that are crushed.

If you like, you can use a large baggie with a hole cut in the corner to pipe out the meringue onto the cookie sheet. Otherwise just put large spoonfuls approximately 2" apart on cookie sheet.


Place cookies in your oven and bake at 225 degrees for 90 minutes. Remove from the oven but do not take them off the foil until they have completely cooled. Here is the end result.

My brother-in-law likes his with cocoa added to the recipe along with some chocolate chips for a different flavor. Try new flavors and colors, it's fun and healthier than many other snacks.

Great Cozumel Cooking Tour

When I was going through my pictures I came across some I thought I would share.

These are a few pictures of a new tour that is now offered in Cozumel that I highly recommend. It is a cooking class of about 14 couples all learning to make 3 different authentic Mexican dishes: Chicken breast with olives, onions, green pepper and tomato, chorizo and potato stuffed tortillas and rice pudding.

We started the tour on a bus and headed out to one of the fancy resorts where there was a room all set up with about 7 cook stations. Each one was designed to accomodate 4 people and had 2 burners.

The first thing the staff did before anything got undeway was to pull out the bar and offer everyone complimentary drinks. Ralph and I chose margaritas (when in Rome) and whew, were they strong!

Next we were passed the various ingredients and talked through each step by a very funny chef named Juan. Honestly, he was part comedian.

After completing our dishes we were ushered up to the top of the building to a large dining facility and were served our dishes by the cooking staff. Since we had our names on the plates it was easy for them to deliver the correct dish. We all sat in long tables opposite one another and had a blast. A couple of ladies on the tour were well toasted by this time and were really hilarious.

Below are some of the pictures we took. I wish we would have taken more, but got too busy cooking, I guess. :)

Juan showing us different swirl techniques(left) and Ralph experimenting.

Overview of part of the room we used. Everyone was quite "happy" at this point of the tour as it was free booze. You can see the carts with all the plates getting ready for the oven.




I didn't get a picture of all that we made, but this is the end result of my rice pudding dish with my swirlys.