Spring Pastel Meringue Cookies {Choose Your Flavor}

Simply switch upwards your coloring as well as flavoring extract to direct your season as well as color for these perfect-for-Spring Pastel Meringue Cookies.  Such a pretty {& tasty} piffling pastel celebration of Spring!
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Now, I know the showtime twenty-four hr menstruum of Spring is "officially" inward March, but inward my mind, Spring starts on Easter.  There's exactly something near donning a novel outfit for church building on Easter morning, getting together alongside menage unit of measurement to celebrate the resurrection of Christ, enjoying the first-blooming trees as well as flowers, as well as seeing all the beautiful pastel-colored Easter eggs as well as decorations that exactly tell to me, "Spring is here!"

And what improve agency to usher inward as well as celebrate the arrival of Spring than alongside beautiful perfect-for-Spring pastel Meringue Cookies?  Well, how near alongside an annual menage unit of measurement Easter egg hunt, too?

Despite the youngest of us beingness fifteen years old, thank yous to my Mom as well as Dad, nosotros practise an egg hunt inward their yard every year.  Without fail.

Because inward our family, we're all really exactly large kids at view ... Which is completely evident inward these menage unit of measurement photos from this year's Easter egg hunt effect ...

That's my Mom as well as Dad on the left ... at the compass is me hiding eggs for the hunt ... as well as and hence my niece as well as nephew counting & inspecting their loot ... as well as the lower correct is my hubby Mark, who exactly hence happened to live on the finder of the hunt's extra-special golden egg.  As yous tin see, he's quite proud of himself!  

We had hence much fun!

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

That's iii generations of menage unit of measurement girls inward that sweet, sugariness photograph ... me as well as my Mom inward the back, as well as my sister-in-law as well as niece inward the front.  Love, love, dear these ladies, as well as dear this photo.

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

And 1 of the extra bonus perks of these pretty piffling cookies?

You tin easily direct your color as well as your flavor! ... only past times changing out the coloring as well as flavoring extract yous use.  Easy peasy!  I exactly dear their flexibility.

I did a mix-and-match approach when I whipped upwards this batch of meringue cookies.  The pinkish are strawberry, flavored alongside strawberry extract.  The yellow? coconut, made alongside coconut extract.  And the greenish are almond, alongside almond extract.  I've also given the extract amounts for vanilla as well as peppermint inward the recipe below, too.

You tin easily modify out the flavors exactly past times mixing inward a dissimilar extract 1 time the meringue mixture is whipped.  I whipped 1 batch of the meringue, divided it into iii parts, as well as flavored each business office differently to larn my mix-and-match batch of meringue cookies.  You tin practise it that way, or mix upwards a separate total batch of each flavor.

These crunchy piffling cookies are hence low-cal as well as airy.  So tasty.  So versatile.  And hence pretty.  The perfect pretty piffling 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, as well as flavoring extract inward a large bowl. Beat at highest mixer speed until soft white peaks form, near 2 minutes. While continuing to trounce at high speed, very slowly pour saccharide in, a piffling flake at a time. Keep beating until potent peaks form.
2. Add 2 to 3 drops of nutrient coloring inward the color of your choice. Beat exactly a few turns of the beater to incorporate; cease mixing past times manus until egg white mixture is a uniform color. If deeper color is desired, gently mix additional nutrient coloring inward past times hand.
3. Place egg white mixture inward a piping bag fitted alongside a really large circular or star tip. Pipe meringue dollops onto a parchment-lined cookie sheet.
4. Bake at 250 degrees for twoscore minutes. Let stand upwards on the cookie canvass until completely cooled.
5. Store at room temperature inward an airtight container.

Note:  I role a disposable pipage bag fitted alongside 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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