forgotten cookies

> Forgotten Cookies
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> Ingredients:
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> 2 egg whites
> 3/4 cup sugar
> 1/2 tsp. vanilla
> pinch salt
> 3/4 cup semi-sweet choc chips or mini M&M's® (optional )
> 1/2 cup nuts of your choice ( I use chopped pecans )
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> Directions:
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> Preheat oven to 350º F.
> Beat sugar into egg whites.
> Add vanilla extract and salt, beating until stiff peaks form.
> Fold in chocolate and nuts.
> Drop by small tsp. onto a cookie sheet that has been lined with foil.
> Cookies will not spread at all, so they may be placed very close together.
> Put cookie sheet in oven and turn the oven off.
> Leave in it overnight, without opening.
> Next morning, simply peel them off the foil.
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> Variations :
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> You can use: mint choc chips, raspberry choc chips,
> holiday baking bits that are red, white and green,
> peppermint extract, orange extract, lemon extract,
> (not much of any of them) red food coloring, green food coloring,
> just let your imagination go! Once you make the meringue "cookie"
> the rest is up to you!!
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