Ginger meringue Chessboard cookies
  • 3 EGG WHITES
  • 200 GRAM SUGAR
  • 30 GRAM GINGER
  • 30 GRAM ALMONDS
  • 250 GRAM FLOUR
  • 125 GRAM SUGAR
  • 175 GRAM BUTTER
  • 3 TBSP CACAO

Beat the egg whites with a pinch of salt until they are fluffy. Slowly add the sugar, whilst still beating. Chop the ginger and mix it carefully through the egg white mixture. Put a sheet of baking paper on an oven tray. Form nice heaps of the mixture with a spoon and put them on the paper. Chop the almonds very small and sprinkle them on top of the meringues. Put them in the oven at 120 degrees for one hour; turn the heat down to fifty degrees and leave them for another 6 hours inside the oven.

Meringue is very easy to make and it looks and tastes good. Try also other meringue recipes like

Knead the butter, sugar and flour and a pinch of salt together and divide the dough in two equal parts. Add the cacao to one part. Put the dough in the fridge for half an hour. Roll both the white and the brown dough into two long thin rolls, so you have four rolls. Lay a brown and a white one together and push softly with your hand until they stick. Put a brown one on top of the white and a white one on top of the brown. Now cut slices and put them on the oven tray. Bake 20 minutes at 180 degrees Celsius.

These cookies look similar to domino cookies, but the composition is different.

You can serve these cookies for Christmas. The Worldcook site has also a page for Christmas cookies.

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