Easiest Way to Prepare Quick Lemon meringue cookies

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These easy Lemon Meringue Cookies are made from egg whites whisked into a stiff meringue and baked until they are slightly crunchy on the outside and soft in the middle. Despite the snow covering the ground thanks to a recent snowfall, my kitchen is in full spring mode! Lemon meringue pie is the inspiration for these cookies: crisp meringue buttons are sprinkled with gingersnap crumbs (the crust) and sandwiched around a vibrant lemon curd. If a lemon meringue pie and a sugar cookie had a (very delicious) baby, Erin McDowell's lemon meringue cookies would be it. "These are softer and cakier than your typical cookie," McDowell tells.

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To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook lemon meringue cookies using 10 ingredients and 14 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Lemon meringue cookies:

1. Make ready Meringue cookies
2. Make ready 3 egg whites
3. Prepare 3/4 cup super fine sugar
4. Get 1 tsp lemon juice
5. Take lemon curd
6. Make ready 1 the zest of one lemon
7. Take 1/3 cup fresh lemon juice
8. Prepare 3 tbsp butter
9. Take 4 eggs
10. Make ready 1 1/3 cup granulated sugar

Lemon Meringue Cookies are cookies that my husband absolutely loves - even better than Chocolate Chip Cookies! Each little cookie is like eating a bite size lemon meringue pie. These are topped with meringue cookies, rather than the soft, fluffy, creamy, frosting-like meringue. Who knew you could stuff a pie into a chewy sugar cookie?

Instructions to make Lemon meringue cookies:

1. Preheat oven to 250°
2. Separate egg whites from the yolks. If ANY yolk gets into the whites start over. Leave the whites out at room temp.
3. While the eggs sit start the lemon curd. In a heavy bottom saucepan combine eggs, sugar, and lemon juice on medium heat.
4. When the ingredients are combined add butter.
5. Whisk constantly until the mixture thickens enough to coat the back of a spoon. Cover and chill.
6. To start the meringue beat the egg whites on medium until they form soft peaks.
7. Slowly add sugar a couple tablespoons at a time. Increase mixing speed.
8. Once all the sugar is incorporated add the lemon juice and continue to beat until stiff peaks form.
9. The meringue is ready when the bowl can be flipped upside down, the meringue looks glossy, and no sugar granules can be felt.
10. You may add color at this point if you wish. Transfer to a piping bag.
11. Line a cookie sheet with a silicon mat or parchment. If you use parchment make sure you pipe a small amount of the meringue to the cookie sheet on each corner to glue it down.
12. Pipe one circle, then pipe another circle around the first one leaving space in the middle. Think of a little cup to hold the curd. They can be quite close together as they do not rise.
13. Place in the oven and leave for about an hour then turn off the oven and let them cool for another hour. Do not open the oven until the meringues are no longer shiny. At least 40 minutes.
14. Once the meringues are done fill them with the lemon curd and they're done. Meringue can be made up to a week a head of time. Store in the refrigerator.

These are topped with meringue cookies, rather than the soft, fluffy, creamy, frosting-like meringue. Who knew you could stuff a pie into a chewy sugar cookie? Combine the egg whites, sugar and salt and beat with an electric mixer until stiff peaks form. This sugar-free meringue cookie is a four-ingredient recipe, so it comes together quickly and easily. There's no flour in these gluten-free cookies.

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