Looking for a treat to make on a rainy day or to take to your child’s classroom? Create these kid friendly Unicorn Star Cookies – the meringue cookies recipe easy, delicious & fun will be the hit of the party. Even better, these are gluten free cookies, so you don’t have to worry about dietary restrictions.
Ingredients
4 egg whites
1/4 tsp cream of tarter
1/2 C sugar
2/3 C powder sugar
1 TBSP vanilla extract
purple, pink and blue gel coloring
Directions
- Preheat your oven to 225 degrees
- In a standing mixer, add in the egg whites and cream of tarter.
- Mix on medium speed until soft peaks form and then increase to the highest speed setting.
- Add the sugar 1 tablespoon at a time first then add 1 table spoon of powder sugar coating until all is combined.
- You will want to see stiff peaks form.
- Add in the vanilla and mix until combined.
- Split batter into 5 bowls
- Add blue food coloring into one bowl
- Add pink food coloring into the second one
- Add purple food coloring into the third one
- Using a pastry bag with a star tip, scope some blue meringue into 1/4 of the bag
- Add the pink meringue to another 1/4 of the bag
- Add the purple to the bag to the final 1/4 of the bag
- Pipe on the meringues onto a baking sheet lined with parchment paper.
- Making them about the size of a silver dollar and leaving about 1 inch in between the cookies
- Bake for 1 and 30 minutes hour
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