Chocolate Chip Meringue Cookies

Chocolate chip meringue cookies are incredibly easy to make and melt in your mouth. They’re perfect for any occasion, and especially for holiday cookie exchanges and cookie trays!

Let’s talk about meringue cookies.

I know that they can be a staple on a lot of people’s holiday baking list, but a confession… I had never (as in never, ever, EVER) eaten a meringue cookie until I made these. No one in my family every made meringue cookies or those pretty little meringue kisses, they never showed up around the holidays, and I really never thought much about them until recently. I saw chocolate chip meringue cookies mentioned by someone in my Facebook feed, and my ears shot up… CHOCOLATE CHIP meringue cookies. Game changer.

I immediately scribbled down the idea so I could try to make them, and they were a huge success. They are certainly outside of my comfort zone, mostly because I tend to like more decadent, thick, chewy cookies than delicate ones like meringues, but I’m officially a convert.

I started by taking my pavlova recipe and scaling it down a bit, then adding a small bit of salt, vanilla extract, and of course, chocolate chips.

I love how incredibly easy it is to make meringue, and there are few things in the kitchen as gorgeous as a glossy, perfectly stiff meringue.

I poked around online for recipes and didn’t find they varied much at all from traditional meringue that were scooped like cookies, so I stuck to my recipe, and experimented with cooling.

Some recipes called for pulling the cookies right out of the oven, but my pavlova cools the whole way in the oven with the door propped open.

So, I took one tray of cookies out immediately and left the second tray in to cool in the oven. The second batch came out significantly better – they were more crisp and had a melt-in-your-mouth texture while the ones that were removed immediately were chewy and softer – not what we want from a meringue cookie!

While chocolate chip meringue cookies were never something I would look twice at when considering a dessert, I absolutely fell in love with them. My aunt described them perfectly when she said that they almost reminded her of cotton candy when you bite into them – that feeling of a sweet bite dissolving in your mouth. Totally spot on!

If you want to jazz up your holiday cookie trays this year, or you want to jazz up your chocolate chip cookies, give these chocolate chip meringue cookies a whirl – I think you’re going to love them!

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