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Chocolate Cherry Meringue Cookies

December 1, 2015 by Debi 34 Comments

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Chocolate Cherry Meringue Cookies are chewy inside with a crisp outside, luscious chocolate and tart cherries mixed throughout the meringue help makes these a festive treat.

These Chocolate Cherry Meringue Cookies are like biting into one of the crispy-ist yet chewy-ist fudgy-ist chocolaty-ist cookie ever!

3 cookies on a wooden tray with pine boughs behind them.

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three cookies on a wooden tray with a package of chocolate chips and pine boughs around.

Meringues

If you’ve never had Meringue Cookies, you’re in for a really special treat!

The outside of these Meringue Cookies gets crisp, while the center is soft and chewy.

These cookies are filled with rich chocolate flavor (some of that comes from the Semi-Sweet Morsels), which just makes them melt in your mouth!

Cherry and chocolate are such a wonderful combination for the holidays too.

How to make

Besides the new flavor and texture, you’ll notice that meringues have a different baking method than you may be used to.

These bake in a low oven for a couple hours, then you turn the oven off and leave them to cool for a little while. Easy peasy!

I’ve even left them in the oven (with the oven off), and gone to bed. They cool over night.

I like to mix these Meringue Cookies so that they have pretty streaks of white and dark. So they have some variety and texture. Don’t worry if you have little bits that aren’t all mixed in, just get most everything mixed but still leave some streaks.

You can also pipe these meringues out using a pastry bag, but you really don’t have to go to that trouble.

I like the free form look of them. My husband said they reminded him of molten lava, in how they have different colors and textures and look like they are flowing. I agree.

So, don’t bother piping them out. They are super fun this way, and Santa will be really happy to get these on his cookie plate!

I make my meringues with a tablespoon or soup spoon so that they are a little larger, about 3 bites worth. You can also make them smaller with teaspoons.

The large size yields about 30-32 cookies (um, I may have lost count of the cookies as I ate, er I mean, photoed them!). The smaller size yields about 48 cookies.

Cherry Recipes

Cherries are such a wonderful summertime fruit. If you need more cherries in your life, check out these delicious cherry recipes. You’ll love them!

  • Cherry Bread with Dark Chocolate Glaze
  • Yogurt Cherry Cloud Pie with Granola Crust
  • Cherry Scotch Sipper
  • Lime Cherry Jam
  • Cherry Balsamic Glazed Salmon
  • Double Cherry Popsicles
  • Cherry Lambic Granita

Cookies cooling on a wire rack.

What kind of cocoa to use?

For these little Chocolate Cherry Meringue Cookies I recommend using Dutch-Process Cocoa instead of regular unsweetened cocoa.

Dutch-process cocoa (or European-style cocoa) has been treated with alkali to yield a deeper, neutral, less acidic, and mellower flavor than natural or unsweetened cocoa.

Want to read more about the difference between Dutch-process and natural.

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Chocolate Cherry Meringue Cookies Recipe

Chocolate Cherry Meringue Cookies

Debi
These Chocolate Cherry Meringue Cookies with chocolate chips are the crispiest yet chewiest fudgy-ist chocolaty-ist cookie ever!
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Prep Time 10 minutes mins
Cook Time 3 minutes mins
Total Time 3 hours hrs 10 minutes mins
Course cookies
Cuisine American
Servings 48 cookies
Calories 37 kcal

Ingredients
  

  • ¼ cup slivered almonds
  • 1 cup sugar divided use
  • 5 tablespoons Dutch-process cocoa powder
  • 3 tablespoons cornstarch
  • ¼ cup dried cherries chopped
  • ½ cup Semi-Sweet Chocolate Chips
  • 4 large egg whites
  • ¼ teaspoon cream of tartar
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Instructions
 

  • Preheat oven to 350°F. Spread almonds on a baking sheet, and bake until lightly toasted, about10 minutes. Let cool.
  • Reduce the oven temperature to 200° F. Line 2 large baking sheets with Silpats or parchment paper.
  • Place the toasted almonds and 1/3 cup of sugar in the bowl of a food processor, and pulse until finely chopped. Add cocoa and cornstarch and pulse just until mixed. Transfer cocoa almond mixture to a medium bowl, and stir in chopped dried cherries and Chocolate Chips until just combined.
  • In a large bowl, beat egg whites with an electric mixer on low speed just until frothy. Add cream of tartar, and increase the mixer speed to medium, and beat until soft peaks form. Gradually add the remaining 2/3 cup sugar, 2 tablespoons at a time, beating until the whites form firm but still moist peaks. Add vanilla extract, and beat just until blended.
  • Gently fold the cocoa mixture into the beaten whites in 2 additions, just until blended.
  • Using two spoons, drop the batter by heaping teaspoon fulls onto the prepared baking sheets, spacing the cookies 1-inch apart.
  • Bake, using both oven racks, for 1 ½ hours at 200° F, alternate the position of the pans and rotate back to front halfway through baking time. Turn off the oven and let the meringues cool in the oven for 1 hour, then peel them off the Silpat or parchment paper.

Notes

Store in a tightly covered container for up to 5 days

Nutrition

Calories: 37kcalCarbohydrates: 7gProtein: 1gFat: 1gSaturated Fat: 1gPolyunsaturated Fat: 1gMonounsaturated Fat: 1gTrans Fat: 1gCholesterol: 1mgSodium: 5mgPotassium: 30mgFiber: 1gSugar: 5gVitamin A: 23IUCalcium: 4mgIron: 1mg

Nutritional information is based on third-party calculations, and should be considered estimates. Actual nutritional content will vary based on brands used, measuring methods, portion sizes, and more.

Keyword cherry, chocolate, meringue
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Filed Under: Cookies, Desserts, Gluten-free Tagged With: cherries, cherry, chocolate, Christmas, Cookies, Cooking, desserts, Food, giveaway, gluten-free, recipe, vegetarian

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  1. Homemade Food Junkie

    December 3, 2015 at 4:38 pm

    I have never baked meringue cookies! These look so tasty I will have to make them!

  2. Coffee With Us 3 (@CoffeeWithUs3)

    December 3, 2015 at 8:31 pm

    Love, love, love chocolate cookies!!

  3. Nicole Brady

    December 3, 2015 at 9:25 pm

    My mom used to always make meringues but they were never chocolate! We missed out! LOL Yum!

  4. kristi dominguez

    December 3, 2015 at 9:31 pm

    My mom used to bake meringues! They’re so delicious.

  5. Elizabeth

    December 4, 2015 at 12:01 am

    Such an intriguing sounding recipe! I absolutely love this idea – I just with we could get decent chocolate chips in the UK!

  6. Jillian @ Food, Folks and Fun

    December 4, 2015 at 1:45 am

    Oh wow, these cookies look so good!

  7. Debra

    December 4, 2015 at 11:04 am

    These sound amazing! Yum!

  8. Jamie @ Scattered Thoughts of a Crafty Mom

    December 4, 2015 at 11:37 am

    love meringue cookies!

  9. Michelle De La Cerda

    December 4, 2015 at 3:38 pm

    These look so good. I haven’t had a meringue cooking in eons, but love the addition of cherry.

  10. Amber | Caleigh's Kitchen

    December 8, 2015 at 9:37 am

    Love the spin on these, they sound AMAZING!!!! Thanks for Linking up with us at #TryABiteTuesday! Come join in again this week, the link up is open!

  11. auntbeesrecipes

    December 14, 2015 at 7:12 am

    These look amazing!

  12. Michaela - An Affair from the Heart

    December 14, 2015 at 9:41 am

    Scrumptious!

  13. Sandra Shaffer

    December 16, 2015 at 10:00 am

    Meringue cookies melt in your mouth! Love the flavor combination in this cookie!

  14. Joanne/WineladyCooks

    November 5, 2016 at 3:44 pm

    So glad you recently shared this, I can’t wait to give this a try, love the chocolate and cherry combo and you can be sure I will not be using a piping bag, the spoons will be the perfect tools! Thanks for sharing your recipe.

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