No, I didn't actually forget cookies. That is a highly unlikely eventuality! But Jenny and I were discussing holiday baking yesterday, and that brings us to Forgotten Cookies. Or, in a Calvin & Hobbesian turn of phrase, as I also like to call them, Sugar Coated Chocolate Bombs! They are ideal for making with children, but conveniently you don't need children to make them. In fact I used to work in an office that had fairly regular pot luck lunches, and I wasn't allowed to bring anything else to a pot luck.
2 egg whites
1/2 teaspoon cream of tartar
1/16 teaspoon salt
2/3 cup sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 cup semi-sweet chocolate bits
1 cup chopped nuts (or another cup of chocolate bits)
Preheat overn to 350°F. Beat egg whites till foamy. Add cream of tartar and salt. Beat until soft peaks form. Gradually add sugar, beating to stiff meringue. Fold in vanilla, chocolate & nuts. Drop from tablespoon onto greased cookies sheet. Place in oven; turn off heat. Leave 12 hours or overnight (hence forgotten cookies).
Yield: three dozen cookies
P.S. Here's an abdominal fat variant bound to inspire some Dear Tanita letters!
Monday, December 10, 2007
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9 comments:
Wendy, you have inspired me, I am seriously going to make those cookies which sound like the most delicious thing in the world (also I am perhaps hungry for breakfast...)!
Plus except for the cream of tartar, the ingredients are all easily come by! (I make the cookies small -- really, there's enough sweetness in them that you don't need a large cookie!)
"Cookie" seems an odd word for something that doesn't even have flour in it! I think "Little balls of chocolately goodness with no calories wasted on flour" would be a more appropriate name :-)
Yum.
Hungry now.
Danielle, okay, I can see that!
These were my FAVORITE Christmas cookies growing up--my mom made them each and every year. We called them "forgotten kisses" though. Yuuuuuuuum.
Andra Sue, Brent and I liked them a lot, too!
mmmmmmm - i think I could bake those....
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