{"id":2078,"date":"2012-12-28T03:13:20","date_gmt":"2012-12-28T08:13:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/beyondgorgeous\/?p=2078"},"modified":"2012-12-11T06:15:45","modified_gmt":"2012-12-11T11:15:45","slug":"recipe-day-meringue-cookies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beyondgorgeous\/2012\/12\/recipe-day-meringue-cookies.html","title":{"rendered":"Recipe Day &#8212; Meringue Cookies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s tough to be good during the holidays! \u00a0 I know that &#8212; so today I\u2019m posting a cookie recipe that isn\u2019t exactly good for you, but is significantly, well, less bad.\u00a0 The protein lowers the glycemic load and it contains no flour so folks who are going gluten free can indulge.\u00a0 I just made these for a church fellowship and they were a big hit, with the kids as well as the older folks who are watching their sugar intake.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you to The Gracious Pantry (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thegraciouspantry.com\">http:\/\/www.thegraciouspantry.com<\/a>)\u00a0 for providing the basic recipe, which I have adapted here.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Meringue Cookies<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Ingredients<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>5 egg whites<\/li>\n<li>1\/2 cup honey<\/li>\n<li>vanilla or flavoring of your choice<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Directions<\/p>\n<p>Beat the egg whites until they begin to form stiff peaks.<\/p>\n<p>Slowly pour in the honey and then vanilla<\/p>\n<p>When the egg whites are thick and form stiff peaks, put in a pastry bag. (I didn\u2019t have one, so I used a baggie with one corner cut off.)<\/p>\n<p>Squeeze onto parchment-lined cookie sheets.\u00a0 They should be small, about like an over-sized chocolate kiss.<\/p>\n<p>Bake at 250 degrees for 30 to 40 minutes, or longer if they are a bit bigger.\u00a0 They will be light brown in color and not wet on the inside or sticky on the outside.<\/p>\n<p>There about 500 calories in the entire batch, which makes around 100 cookies.\u00a0 A five calorie cookie won\u2019t be too damaging, especially since they are mostly protein from the egg whites.\u00a0 You can fix some to enjoy while others are pigging out on the sugar-laden stuff that will make them feel sluggish and stupid tomorrow!<\/p>\n<p>Eating to live and living for Christ,<\/p>\n<p>Susan Jordan Brown<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s tough to be good during the holidays! \u00a0 I know that &#8212; so today I\u2019m posting a cookie recipe that isn\u2019t exactly good for you, but is significantly, well, less bad.\u00a0 The protein lowers the glycemic load and it contains no flour so folks who are going gluten free can indulge.\u00a0 I just made&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":423,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[198,190,36],"class_list":["post-2078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recipes","tag-cookies","tag-protein","tag-recipe"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Recipe Day - Meringue Cookies - Beyond Gorgeous<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beyondgorgeous\/2012\/12\/recipe-day-meringue-cookies.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Recipe Day - Meringue Cookies - Beyond Gorgeous\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"It\u2019s tough to be good during the holidays! 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