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Brown Sugar Meringues

Course Dessert
Cuisine American
Servings 20

Ingredients
  

  • ½ cup granulated sugar
  • ¼ cup dark brown sugar you can also use light instead
  • 4 egg whites
  • ¼ teaspoon cream of tartar
  • teaspoon salt
  • ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
  • ¼ teaspoon cinnamon

Instructions
 

  • Preheat the oven to 250°F. Start by whipping the egg whites and cream of tartar at medium high speed. Once tracks begin to form, gradually add the granulated and brown sugar.
  • Continue to whip until voluminous. Slowly add in vanilla extract, cinnamon, and salt all at once.  Whip until you get stiff peaks.
  • On a cookie sheet lined with parchment paper or a silicone mat, pipe out meringues with a 2D or 1M piping tip. It's not necessary to use a pastry bag or tip but it makes for a better presentation and it's a lot cleaner to make it this way. If you'd like you, can just use two spoons to mound them up.
  • Turn the oven down to 225°F and bake for one hour. Turn off the oven and leave the meringues in the oven for two hours or up to overnight to further dry out the meringues.
  • Once out of the oven, you can enjoy them or store them in a storage container to keep them crisp and dry. Humidity is the enemy of meringues. If it's a humid day, these can still be sticky and wet on the inside. If that's the case, put them back in the oven at 200°F for another hour until they dry up and get crisp.

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Notes

  • Humidity is the enemy of meringues. If it's a humid day, these can still be sticky and wet on the inside. If that's the case, put them back in the oven at 200°F for another hour until they dry up and get crisp.
  • Store in a storage container to keep them dry and crisp.