Chocolate-pistachio Meringues

Total Time: 55 mins Preparation Time: 25 mins Cook Time: 30 mins

Ingredients

• 1/3 cup pistachios, natural not dyed
• 1/4 cup semisweet chocolate piece (or chips)
• 2 egg whites
• 1 pinch cream of tartar
• 2/3 cup berry sugar (very fine sugar)
• 1/2 teaspoon vanilla

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven 250f, grease and flour 2 cookie sheets.
• 2 in your blender or food processor combine pistachios and the chocolate,whirl until very finely chopped, reserve.
• 3 beat egg whites& cream of tartar until soft peaks form.
• 4 gradually add the sugar, 1 tbsp at a time and beat until very stiff peaks are formed.
• 5 fold in the chocolate-nut mixture& vanilla.
• 6 using a tsp drop small mounds of meringue on the prepared cookie sheets leaving about 1" between.
• 7 bake 30 minutes or until the meringues are firm but not brown.
• 8 let stand several minutes on the cookie sheets, loosen carefully, transfer to wire rack.
• 9 store in a tightly covered container.