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Christmas Tree Meringue Cookies

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These festive Christmas Tree Meringue cookies are light as air, and so fun for the holidays. Light with a little bit of a crunchy texture, these cookies melt in your mouth and bring a lot of cheer to any cookie plate. Santa approved!

Close up of three Christmas tree meringue cookies decorated with sprinkles


 

Why We Love This Christmas Tree Meringue Cookies Recipe

  • Fun For A Holiday Party– These cute little Christmas Tree Meringue Cookies look adorable on any holiday cookie plate and so festive for any holiday party.
  • Low Hands On Time– This recipe doesn’t take very long to put together, and most of the work is the meringue cooking at a low temperature. This frees you up to do other things!
  • Only A Few Ingredients– You only need a few items to make this delicious and easy recipe, and they are perfect for newbie bakers wanting to try something different.
  • Lighter Holiday Cookie– Compared to other cookies on the cookie tray, meringue cookies are a really light and airy cookie. This can help you balance your holiday snacking a little easier with some of the more decadent cookies while still enjoying a delicious treat!

Need more cute cookies for your plates and gifts? These Peppermint Candy Cane Sugar Cookies have a red and white dough that is then rolled into fun candy cane shapes. Or try these beautiful Stained Glass Cookies, a soft sugar cookie with a pretty gummy center in Christmas shapes that you can see right through. Or make the holiday vanilla fudge decorated with easy Christmas trees.

Ingredients For Christmas Tree Meringue Cookies

Ingredients for meringue cookies

Find the full printable recipe with specific measurements and directions below in the recipe card.

  • egg whites room temperature works best
  • white sugar
  • cream of tartar
  • vanilla extract
  • green gel food coloring
  • sprinkles, star-shaped for top and small sprinkles for the branches, optional but pretty

This recipe is very challenging to make without an electric mixer of some kind. A stand mixer with a whisk attachment or a simple hand mixer can work, but beating the eggs enough to form stiff peaks to make meringue takes a lot of work by hand. I strongly recommend using an electric mixer for these Christmas Tree Meringues.

How To Make Christmas Tree Meringue Cookies

  1. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper or a silicone mat. Heat the oven to 200 degrees.
  2. With an electric mixer whip egg whites on medium speed and then on high until white and foamy in a large bowl, about two minutes.
Egg whites whipped and frothy in a bowl
  1. Add cream of tartar and half of the sugar to the egg whites. Whip the egg whites on high until they begin to thicken and soft peaks form. This happens when the egg whites start to look more like a soft marshmallow in texture and will take about two minutes.
Egg whites whipped into soft peaks in a bowl
  1. Add in the remaining sugar and vanilla to the egg whites. Continue whipping the egg whites on high for several minutes until stiff peaks form in the mixture, another one to two minutes. If you drag a spoon through the meringue batter, the path from the spoon should stay formed like a riverbed in the egg whites.
A bowl of meringue whipped to stuff peaks with a dot fo green food coloring on top.
  1. Add in a small drop of green gel food coloring to the meringue mixture. Mix on medium until the entire mixture turned green. Add a little more food coloring until you reach your desired green color to make a bright green tree. *See notes in the recipe card at the bottom of the page about liquid food coloring.
Meringue in a bowl colored green with food coloring
  1. Fit a large piping bag with a large star tip or closed star tip. Place the tip of a piping bag into a tall glass and open the bag. Add themeringue mixture to the piping bag.
  2. Pipe swirls onto the parchment lined baking sheet to make tree shapes.
Green meringue piped into a christmas tree shape on a parchment lined baking sheet from the side
  1. Top each tree with a star sprinkle and add extra sprinkles to decorate the trees branches if desired.
Close up side view of green meringue decorated like christmas trees with sprinkles and a star
  1. Place the mergines in oven and bake for two hours. Shut the oven off and open the door to the oven so it is slightly ajar. Leave the meringues in the oven to finish cooking and cool for abour one hour.

How Do I Store Meringue Cookies?

Store meringue cookies in an airtight container on the counter. Meringue cookies can last for up to two weeks if stored properly as long as there is no moisture. Any moisture in the container or condensation can quickly cause a meringue cookie to fall apart.

Do I Have To Use Gel Food Coloring? Can I use Liquid Food Coloring?

Gel food coloring has a much more vibrant and concentrated color. To make anywhere close to the same vibrance of color you would need to use a lot of liquid food coloring, and even then it may still not be as vibrant.

I highly recommend using gel food coloring, this is my favorite gel food coloring. You can usually find gel food coloring in the baking section at the craft store locally.

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Square image of three green meringue cookies shaped like christmas trees
Recipe

Christmas Tree Meringue Cookies


Course Baking, Dessert, Desserts
Cuisine American
Prep Time 5 minutes
Cook Time 2 hours
Cooling Time 1 hour
Total Time 3 hours 5 minutes
Servings 24 Cookies
These Christmas Tree Meringue cookies are light as air, crunchy, melt in your mouth and so fun for the holidays for any cookie plate!

Ingredients  

  • 4 Egg Whites room temperature
  • 1 Cup White Sugar
  • 1/8 tsp Cream of Tartar
  • ½ tsp Vanilla Extract
  • Green Gel Food Coloring
  • Sprinkles Star shaped for top and small sprinkles for the branches

Instructions

  • Line a baking sheet with parchment paper or a silicone mat. Heat the oven to 200 degrees.
  • With an electric mixer whip egg whites on medium speed and then on high in a large bowl until white and foamy, about two minutes.
  • Add cream of tartar and half of the sugar to the egg whites. Whip the egg whites on high until they begin to thicken and soft peaks form. This happens when the egg whites start to look more like a soft marshmallow in texture and will take about two minutes.
  • Add in the remaining sugar and vanilla to the egg whites. Continue whipping the egg whites on high several minutes until stiff peaks form in the mixture, another one to two minutes. If you drag a spoon through the mixture, the path from the spoon should stay formed like a riverbed in the egg whites.
  • Add in a small drop of green gel food coloring. Mix on medium until the entire mixture turned green. Add a little more food coloring until you reach your desired green color to make a bright green tree. *See notes about liquid food coloring.
  • Fit a large piping bag with a large star tip or closed star tip. Place the tip of a piping bag into a tall glass and open the bag. Add themeringue mixture to the piping bag.
  • Pipe swirls onto the parchment lined baking sheet to make tree shapes. Top each tree with a star sprinkle and add extra sprinkles to decorate the trees branches if desired.
  • Place the mergines in oven and bake for two hours. Shut the oven off and open the door to the oven so it is slightly ajar. Leave the meringues in the oven to finish cooking and cool for abour one hour.

Notes

Nutrition

Calories: 35kcal | Carbohydrates: 8g | Protein: 1g | Fat: 1g | Sodium: 8mg | Potassium: 11mg | Sugar: 8g | Calcium: 1mg | Iron: 1mg
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