Meringue Christmas Trees Two Ways
Light, airy and cute, these Meringue Christmas Trees will round out your holiday cookie tray. Easy to make and low cal too!
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Christmas cookies are delicious, and a highlight of the season. But if you like lots of different cookies, like I do, it can get a little heavy before you’re done. But not these Meringue Christmas Trees.
With an airy, sweet crunch that melts in the mouth, they’re super light. And up there pretty high on the “cute” scale too.
You weren’t looking for an excuse to eat more cookies, were you?
Now sometimes people are intimidated by meringue but it’s really very easy. If you can beat an egg white (and really the mixer does that), then add sugar and vanilla, you have it down.
You do need to pipe these out to get the shape but that’s no harder than frosting a cupcake. In fact if you look at the upright trees, you’ll notice that they are almost identical to the buttercream shape atop many cupcakes. Shhh…. 
Now while the green trees are piped like cupcake frosting, the flat (white) trees are piped differently. Using a small star tip, you start at the top, then basically go back and forth drawing longer and longer lines until the cookie’s the size you want. Then you decorate! 
I especially wanted to make these trees this year to highlight the beautiful sprinkles I got from Sweets & Treats. I thought the candy canes and gold stars were so pretty and unique! They also have lovely cupcake liners, fancy paper straws and more. Yup, there’s nothing like sprinkles for putting the HOLIDAY in dessert! 
Meringue Christmas Trees Two Ways
Ingredients
- 2 Egg Whites
- 1/8 tsp Cream of Tartar
- 1/2 cup Sugar
- 1/4 teaspoon vanilla
- Green and yellow food coloring
- Assorted sprinkles for decorating
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 225° F.
- Using an electric mixer, beat the egg whites, cream of tartar and vanilla until foamy. Gradually add the sugar and continue beating until stiff. Meringue should hold a shape well. Mix half of the meringue with green food color (I usually add a drop or two of yellow too). Top two baking sheets with parchment.
- For upright green trees, insert a medium star tip into a piping bag, then fill with green meringue Pipe out tree shapes on to the parchment, starting with a larger circle then going smaller and smaller, ending with a point. Sprinkle with gold stars or dot with candy cane sprinkles (or decorate with other sprinkles of your choosing).
- For the white flat trees insert a small star tip into a piping bag, then fill with white meringue Pipe out tree shapes on to the parchment, starting at the top, then going back and forth drawing longer and longer lines until the trree’s the size you want. Sprinkle with gold stars (or decorate with other sprinkles of your choosing)
- Bake for 45 minutes, then turn the oven off and let sit in the closed oven (no peeking) another 45 minutes if possible.
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Those gold stars are so pretty! And those threes are super cute. I love meringue cookies. They’re so light and packed with flavor.
That is a great idea! cute too
They are both very festive! I like that you can switch up colors and such.
These are the ultimate festive and low-fat cookie, aren’t they? Love the green ones… but honestly, the white was with the gold stars stole my heart!
Oh my goodness how pretty are these! Perfect festive treats!
I like the two ways to present these cookies. Double goodness!
I can’t decide which I like most…they’re both just so adorable!
These meringue cookies are absolutely adorable!
I love making meringue cookies and your trees are just adorable!
I never need an excuse to eat more cookies! These are so pretty!
I have tried to make meringue in the past and failed…I just may have to try again! These are so cute
What perfect little Christmas Cookies. I’ll bet they were fun to make too….not to mention eat!!
These are so pretty and delicate! I never have much luck with meringue because it’s always so humid here but I’d love to give these a try.