Sin-Free Chocolate Chews

Utterly flourless, simply gluten-free, almost fat-free, and absolutely delicious. The egg whites give these cookies a lovely chewy texture, and cocoa powder packs a serious punch. From the King Arthur Flour web site, slightly modified.

• Ready In: 3 hrs 27 mins
• Serves: 14

Ingredients

• 2 1⁄4 cups confectioners' sugar
• 1⁄4 teaspoon salt
• 1  cup cocoa powder (Dutch-process or natural)
• 3  egg whites
• 2  teaspoons vanilla extract
• 1⁄2 cup  milk chocolate chips (optional)

Directions

1. Whisk together the sugar, salt, and cocoa.
2. In a medium-sized mixing bowl, stir together the egg whites and vanilla.
3. Add the dry ingredients to the egg whites, and mix at low speed of an electric mixer for 2 minutes. The batter will seem dry at first, but will become shiny and smooth as it mixes.
4. Cover the bowl, and refrigerate the batter for 3 hours, or up to overnight.
5. Preheat the oven to 350°F.
6. Grease (or line with parchment paper) two cookie sheets.
7. Gently stir in chocolate chips, if using.
8. Drop by ping-pong-sized balls onto cookie sheets.
9. Bake for 12 minutes, reversing baking sheets (top/bottom) once during cooking.
10. Cool 5 minutes in pans before transferring to wire rack.