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Date Nut Meringue Cookies
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Date Nut Chocolate Chip Meringues

Easy turn-off-the-oven meringue cookies with nuts, dates and chocolate chips.
Course Dessert
Cuisine American
Keyword Date Nut, Meringues
Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 2 hours 30 minutes
Total Time 2 hours 40 minutes
Servings 24
Author Cookie Madness

Ingredients

  • 2 large egg whites
  • 1 cup sifted confectioners’ sugar
  • 1 cup pecans toasted and chopped**
  • cup finely chopped dates
  • ¾ cup dark chocolate chips

Instructions

  • Preheat oven to 300 degrees F. and Line two baking sheets with parchment paper.
  • In a mixing bowl, beat the egg whites with an electric mixer until stiff peaks form. Beat in the sugar a few tablespoons at a time. Stir in the pecans, dates and chocolate chips.
  • With a generously rounded teaspoon, drop 12 mounds of cookie dough onto each baking sheet. Set one sheet on the middle rack and one on the lower rack and bake for 15 minutes.
  • After 15 minutes, reduce the oven temperature to 275 degrees F, shift the baking sheets so that the sheet on the bottom is now on the top and vice versa. bake for another 15 minutes at 275 degrees F.
  • Turn off oven and let the cookies sit in the closed “off” oven for about two hours.

Notes

To toast the pecans, lay them on a baking sheet and bake at 350 degrees F for 6 to 8 minutes. Let cool completely, then chop.