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Meringue Reindeer Cookies

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Prep Time 1 hour 30 minutes
Cook Time 6 hours 10 minutes
Servings: 48
Course: Dessert
Ingredients Method

Ingredients
  

  • 4 egg whites at room temperature
  • 1 tbsp white vinegar
  • 1 tbsp Clabber Girl® Corn Starch
  • 1 cup super fine granulated sugar or caster sugar
  • 1/2 tsp vanilla
  • brown food coloring
  • colored mini chocolate candies in brown & red
  • black decorating gel
  • chocolate flavored almond bark

Method
 

MERINGUE COOKIES
  1. Preheat oven to 200º F.
  2. Add egg whites to a clean, dry mixer bowl. With whisk attachment, beat egg whites on low until frothy (approximately 30 seconds).
  3. Add vinegar and corn starch and beat another minute until soft peaks form.
  4. Slowly pour in the sugar and vanilla and beat 4 - 5 minutes until stiff peaks form.
  5. Add in the food coloring and mix until incorporated and you achieve the color you prefer.
  6. Transfer meringue to a decorating bag with a 2A tip.
  7. Line baking sheet with parchment paper and pipe reindeer heads by dragging the tip to create an oval then mounding the bottom to create the nose.
  8. Add a candy coated chocolate to the tip of the "nose" and add dots for eyes with the black decorating gel.
  9. Place in preheated 200º F oven and bake for 90 minutes.
  10. Leave cookies in oven to cool for 6 hours or overnight.
ANTLERS
  1. Melt almond bark and pipe antlers onto parchment paper and allow to harden completely.
  2. To attach the antlers to the head: Arrange two antlers on parchment paper then drop a dollop of the melted almond bark on the bottom of each antler.
  3. Gently place the reindeer head over the chocolate dollops and allow to harden.
  4. Peel the parchment paper from the reindeer and serve.
  5. Store in an airtight container.