How To Make Santa Hats Meringue
This Santa hats meringue recipe is easy to follow and only needs 6 ingredients. Make these together with your kids for the perfect holiday bonding.
Serves:
Ingredients
- 2egg whites,at room temperature
- ½tspcream of tartar
- ¼tspvanilla extract
- ½cupwhite sugar
- 1dropred food coloring,or desired amount
- 3tbspred colored sugar,or as desired
Instructions
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Preheat oven to 200 degrees F. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
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Beat egg whites in a bowl until they form soft peaks; beat the cream of tartar and vanilla extract into egg whites. Gradually beat white sugar into mixture until meringue forms stiff peaks.
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Transfer ¼ of the meringue mixture into a separate bowl. Beat red food coloring into the remaining ¾ of meringue.
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Transfer colored meringue into a piping bag fitted with a round tip. Pipe 20 Santa hat-shaped triangles, about 1½-inch tall and bending over at the tips, onto the parchment paper-lined baking sheet. Sprinkle the hats with red sugar.
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Transfer remaining ¼ uncolored meringue into a clean piping bag fitted with a round tip.
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Pipe little white pom-poms onto each hat tip and a small edging of fluffy white trim onto the bottom of each hat.
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Bake meringue cookies in the preheated oven until hard but not browned for about 1 hour and 20 minutes.
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Turn off the oven and let cookies cool inside an oven until crisp for 1 hour.
Nutrition
- Calories: 28.32kcal
- Fat: 0.00g
- Saturated Fat: 0.00g
- Monounsaturated Fat: 0.00g
- Polyunsaturated Fat: 0.00g
- Carbohydrates: 6.95g
- Fiber: 0.00g
- Sugar: 6.89g
- Protein: 0.29g
- Sodium: 4.49mg
- Calcium: 0.27mg
- Potassium: 16.89mg
- Iron: 0.01mg
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