Rosa Franklin Cookies
Recipe: #13460
July 28, 2014
"Meringue cookies with pecans. These are traditional at Sweet Briar College in Virginia. Adapted from From Our Grandmothers' Kitchens. From Brian Brust and Robin Givens."
Original is 24 servings
Ingredients
Nutritional
- Serving Size: 1 (19.2 g)
- Calories 96.7
- Total Fat - 6.5 g
- Saturated Fat - 0.6 g
- Cholesterol - 0 mg
- Sodium - 9.2 mg
- Total Carbohydrate - 9.6 g
- Dietary Fiber - 0.9 g
- Sugars - 8.7 g
- Protein - 1 g
- Calcium - 6.6 mg
- Iron - 0.2 mg
- Vitamin C - 0.1 mg
- Thiamin - 0.1 mg
Step by Step Method
Step 1
Preheat oven to 300° F.
Step 2
On medium-low speed, beat egg white and vanilla until foamy, about 1 minute.
Step 3
Increase speed to medium-high and whip to "soft, billowy mounds", about 1 minute.
Step 4
Gradually beat in sugar and baking soda.
Step 5
Continue to whip until light and smooth, about 2 minutes.
Step 6
Fold in pecans.
Step 7
Drop by tablespoonfuls about 1" apart on parchment-lined baking sheet.
Step 8
Bake until lightly browned, 10-12 minutes.
Step 9
Turn oven off and leave in oven 10 minutes.
Step 10
Remove from oven and let cool on sheet 10 minutes.
Step 11
Cool on racks.
Tips
No special items needed.