Chocolate Meringue Cookies

Name: Chocolate Meringue Cookies
Yield: Makes 48 small cookies
Ingredients: 2 teaspoons, cornstarch; 3/4 cup, sugar (5 1/4 ounces/149 grams); 4 large, egg whites; 3/4 teaspoon, vanilla extract; 1/8 teaspoon, table salt; 2 ounces (57 grams), finely chopped bittersweet chocolate

Desserts or Baked Goods
Chocolate
Make Ahead
Cookies

Appears in Cook's Illustrated March/April 2008, America's Test Kitchen TV

These classic cookies can have a Styrofoam-like texture and a saccharine-sweet flavor. How could we avoid these pitfalls?

SERVES Makes 48 small cookies

TIME 1½ hours, plus 1 hour 10 minutes cooling

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