Recipe 35- Meringue Chip Cookies

                                                        MERINGUE CHIP COOKIES

2 egg whites
1/8 teaspoon salt
1/8 teaspoon cream of tartar
3/4 C sugar
1/2 package of chocolate chips ( 6 oz)
1/2 teaspoon vanilla

Beat egg whites until they form white peaks.  Add sugar gradually to egg whites, salt and cream of tartar. Stir in vanilla and chocolate chips. Spoon onto cookie sheet lined with parchment paper.  Bake at 300 degrees for 25 minutes. Remove while warm.

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This recipe is a do over.  My mother's recipe card that I was following did not mention that the egg whites were to be beaten until white peaks formed.  As a result, the cookies we baked had a different texture than those that I enjoyed in my youth. Despite the fact that the cookies looked different from the cookies that my mother would bake, my family did enjoy the taste.

I baked these cookies for Caroline's Girl Scout Troop's Father/Daughter Dance. Caroline and Steve have gone to the Father Daughter Dance every year as Steve did with Lindsey.  This is Steve and Caroline's last Girl Scout Father Daughter Dance since Caroline will be bridging out of the Junior Girl Scouts in June.  This year's Dance was a 1970's Disco theme.