Super Easy Meringue Cookies

Ingredients

• 1 cup of finely granulated sugar
• 2-3 egg whites
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
• food coloring (optional) or flavoring (optional)

Directions

1. 1

   set oven to 300 degrees and line one or two cookie sheets with pastry or wax paper.

2. 2

   first you want to blend together the egg whites, salt, and vanilla very well together over a double boiler (i don't have one but i've found that if you use a medium pot with 1'' of water and a medium mixing bowl, it helps out very much).

3. 3

   put it all in a stand- up mixer (like our kitchen-aide) and blend at high.

4. 4

   while blending slowly add sugar until stiff peaks occur.

5. 5

   after peaks are made, put in a pastry/icing bag (using corner of a freezer bag or a tight funnel made of wax paper works as well) and pipe onto lined cookie sheet

6. 6

   bake for 12-15 minutes or until tops are a slight golden shade.

7. 7

   serve while warm or put in air tight container (keeps for about a week if they last that long).