Chocolate Chip Meringue Cookies

From Cooking Light, these delicious little cookies make a wonderful, light dessert or sweet snack!

• Ready In: 55 mins
• Yields: 48 cookies

Ingredients

• 3  large  egg whites
• 1⁄4 teaspoon cream of tartar
• 1⁄4 teaspoon salt
• 1  cup sugar
• 3  tablespoons  unsweetened cocoa
• 3  tablespoons  miniature semisweet chocolate chips

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 300°.
2. Beat egg whites, cream of tartar, and salt at high speed of a mixer until soft peaks form.
3. Add sugar, 1 tablespoon at a time, beating until stiff peaks form.
4. Sift cocoa over egg white mixture.
5. Fold in minichips.
6. Cover a baking sheet with parchment paper.
7. Secure to baking sheet with masking tape.
8. Drop batter by level tablespoonfuls onto prepared baking sheet.
9. Bake at 300° for 40 minutes or until crisp.
10. Cool on pan on a wire rack.
11. Repeat procedure with remaining batter, reusing parchment paper.
12. Serve and enjoy.
13. Store in an airtight container.