Spring Pastel Meringue Cookies {Choose Your Flavor}

Simply switch upward your coloring in addition to flavoring extract to select your season in addition to color for these perfect-for-Spring Pastel Meringue Cookies.  Such a pretty {& tasty} lilliputian pastel celebration of Spring!
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Now, I know the start hateful solar daytime of Spring is "officially" inwards March, but inwards my mind, Spring starts on Easter.  There's precisely something nearly donning a novel outfit for church building on Easter morning, getting together amongst solid unit of measurement to celebrate the resurrection of Christ, enjoying the first-blooming trees in addition to flowers, in addition to seeing all the beautiful pastel-colored Easter eggs in addition to decorations that precisely tell to me, "Spring is here!"

And what ameliorate agency to usher inwards in addition to celebrate the arrival of Spring than amongst beautiful perfect-for-Spring pastel Meringue Cookies?  Well, how nearly amongst an annual solid unit of measurement Easter egg hunt, too?

Despite the youngest of us beingness xv years old, cheers to my Mom in addition to Dad, nosotros exercise an egg hunt inwards their yard every year.  Without fail.

Because inwards our family, we're all genuinely precisely large kids at pump ... Which is completely evident inwards these solid unit of measurement photos from this year's Easter egg hunt final result ...

That's my Mom in addition to Dad on the left ... at the transcend is me hiding eggs for the hunt ... in addition to and thus my niece in addition to nephew counting & inspecting their loot ... in addition to the lower correct is my hubby Mark, who precisely thus happened to last the finder of the hunt's extra-special golden egg.  As y'all tin see, he's quite proud of himself!  

We had thus much fun!

While nosotros were getting Easter dinner ready, my niece snapped this selfie of us solid unit of measurement girls ...

That's 3 generations of solid unit of measurement girls inwards that sweet, sweetness photograph ... me in addition to my Mom inwards the back, in addition to my sister-in-law in addition to niece inwards the front.  Love, love, honey these ladies, in addition to honey this photo.

So amongst our Easter celebrations complete, Spring is "officially" hither inwards my mind.  Which makes it a perfect fourth dimension to taste these perfect-for-Spring pastel Meringue Cookies.

And i of the extra bonus perks of these pretty lilliputian cookies?

You tin easily select your color in addition to your flavor! ... only past times changing out the coloring in addition to flavoring extract y'all use.  Easy peasy!  I precisely honey their flexibility.

I did a mix-and-match approach when I whipped upward this batch of meringue cookies.  The pinkish are strawberry, flavored amongst strawberry extract.  The yellow? coconut, made amongst coconut extract.  And the greenish are almond, amongst almond extract.  I've also given the extract amounts for vanilla in addition to peppermint inwards the recipe below, too.

You tin easily alter out the flavors precisely past times mixing inwards a unlike extract i time the meringue mixture is whipped.  I whipped i batch of the meringue, divided it into 3 parts, in addition to flavored each exercise differently to larn my mix-and-match batch of meringue cookies.  You tin exercise it that way, or mix upward a separate total batch of each flavor.

These crunchy lilliputian cookies are thus low-cal in addition to airy.  So tasty.  So versatile.  And thus pretty.  The perfect pretty lilliputian pastel celebration of Spring!

Perfect-for-Spring Pastel Meringue Cookies {Choose Your Flavor}

(Printable recipe)

Ingredients

• 2 egg whites
• 1/8 tsp. cream of tartar
• 1/2 c. sugar
• 1/4 to 1 tsp. flavoring extract {see below}*
• a few drops of liquid food coloring or gel nutrient coloring

Directions

1. Place egg whites, cream of tartar, in addition to flavoring extract inwards a large bowl. Beat at highest mixer speed until soft white peaks form, nearly ii minutes. While continuing to crunch at high speed, very slowly pour saccharide in, a lilliputian fleck at a time. Keep beating until strong peaks form.
2. Add ii to 3 drops of nutrient coloring inwards the color of your choice. Beat precisely a few turns of the beater to incorporate; cease mixing past times mitt until egg white mixture is a uniform color. If deeper color is desired, gently mix additional nutrient coloring inwards past times hand.
3. Place egg white mixture inwards a piping bag fitted amongst a real large circular or star tip. Pipe meringue dollops onto a parchment-lined cookie sheet.
4. Bake at 250 degrees for xl minutes. Let stand upward on the cookie sail until completely cooled.
5. Store at room temperature inwards an airtight container.

Note:  I exercise a disposable pipage bag fitted amongst an extra large circular tip when pipage the meringue.

*Suggested flavoring extract amounts for a few flavors:

Vanilla extract:  1 tsp.  vanilla extract

Almond extract:  1/4 tsp.  almond extract

Strawberry extract:  1/2 tsp. strawberry extract

Coconut extract:  1 tsp. kokosnoot extract

Peppermint extract:  1/8 tsp. peppermint extract

Enjoy!

Enjoy these other Spring-ish treats from ...

The BEST Vanilla Cupcakes + the BEST Vanilla Frosting

White Chocolate Birthday {or Easter} Cake

Strawberry Cobbler

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