TREAT RECIPES

MERINGUE SKELETON BONES

These meringue skeleton bones are easy to make and delicious to eat! Not really a cookie but more of a sweet treat, these are a big hit at children's parties.

Ingredients:
3 large egg, separate the whites
1/4 teaspoon cream of tartar
1/8 teaspoon salt
2/3 cup granulated sugar
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract

You'll need a medium sized mixing bowl, cookie sheets lined with parchment paper, a hand mixer, pastry bag and medium sized round tip.

First, preheat oven to 200 degrees F. and line cookie sheets with parchment paper; set aside.

In a medium bowl, separate the egg whites from the yokes, throw away the yokes. Beat with your electric mixer set on high speed, adding cream of tartar and salt. Beat until fluffy.

Slowly beat in sugar, adding a little at a time. Add vanilla extract and beat in.

Place mixture in pastry bag with a medium plain tip. Pipe 3-inch bones onto parchment paper. Make a straight line, then on each end pipe two dots, side by side. this gives it the look of a finger bone.

Bake for 1 hour. Turn oven off, let cookies set in oven for 1 hour.

Makes about 50 bones.