Today is my birthday.
Because it is three days before Christmas, it’s really not a big deal. I’m completely okay with sharing my birthday week with baby Jesus.
It makes it a really fun celebration week. The perfect week to be snowed inside. The perfect week for shopping. The perfect week to see family and friends.
The perfect week to make cookies and eat them with reckless abandon.
It’s even more perfect that these chewy little meringue cookies take about 5 minutes to put together. It leaves plenty of room in your day for doing those Christmas-birthday activities.
Chocolate Chip Almond Meringues
- 2 large egg whites
- 1 t vanilla
- 3/4 c white sugar
- 1/8 t kosher salt
- 1/8 t cream of tartar
- 1 c chocolate chips
- 1/4 cup almonds, toasted and chopped into pieces
Preheat the oven to 300 degrees and line a cookie sheet with parchment paper.
Put the egg whites in a big mixing bowl and beat until soft peaks form. Add the vanilla, sugar, salt and cream of tartar with the mixer running at low speed.
Then fold in the chocolate chips and almond pieces.
Drop by spoonful onto the cookie sheet and bake for about 25 minutes or until they start to brown on the edges.
Perfect.
The perfect week to get them all cut?
Those cookies look ridiculous good, gooey yet crunchy!
The hair has been cut.
Happy birthday! Same as my mom’s
Happy Birthday to your Mama!
HAAAAPPPYY BIRRRRTHDAAAAY!!!!!!!!!
I was screaming that, just for you. xo!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY! I LOVE YOU!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY! Hope you get to have your favorite cake tonight
Happy birthday!!! Those look amazing!
I have yet to master meringues so I think it’s time to do that with this recipe.
Also!? HAPPY BIRTHDAY FRIEND!!! I love you and I hope you have the absolute best day ever!!
Happy Birthday! Thanks for all the wonderful posts that you share with us
Happppppy birthday!!
These look awesome!
I just sang to you. In my head. It was slightly off key.
Hey! Happy birthday! I didn’t get you a present… :/
Awkward.
Happy birthday!!
Happy Birthday!
OMG those look so yummy!
happy birthday! those meringues look so good!
those are so gluten free!!!! yay! ill have to try em out
Happy Birthday!!
Those meringues look amazing.
Happy Birthday!!
Happy Birthday Katie!
Happy birthday!!!! Hope its fantastic!!
Happy birthday! These seem like a good way to celebrate
Happy Birthday, Katie!! Hope its a special day
Enjoy!
¡Feliz cumpleaños!
Or happy birthday! you can choose between languages 
Enjoy your day!!!
I like the Spanish.
Happy Birthday!!!
wish i had cream of tartar!
Happy Birthday, Katie! I hope you have an absolutely wonderful-terrific-fantastic day! =)
Oh, you just wanted to fish for compliments!
Well, I can’t be very original. Everyone already said it….
Um, email me your address so I can send you a gift? Ok?
Love you.
No…it is a BIG deal…HAPPY HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!
Happy Birthday!!!
Happy birthday! Okay, maybe we do need to get together for a birthday lunch tomorrow!! These cookies look great, I’ve never made meringues, but think I’d eat a billion of these!
Happy Birthday – enjoy those cookies!
Happy birthday!! Today is also my older cousin’s birthday. She was born in the backseat of a car because they couldn’t make it to the hospital. No joke.
Ahh! Oh my gosh…that’s just crazy! My mom went into labor while Christmas shopping. I think that’s why shopping stresses me out so much…hah!
Happy Birthday lady!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY LOVE!!! ok so I have tried to make meringues and they scare me…I never can get them right!
happy happy birthday!!!
hope it has been fantastic!
Happy birthdaaaaaaaaaaaay friend! I hope you have extra snuggle time with Baby A and a yummy cake… with your cookies, obviously.
Happy birthday girlie!!! These look delicious! I looove meringue cookies.
Hope you had a good one!
Happy birthday – it would be to cool if my packet arrived today!
Happy Birthday, sweet Sister! Your first bday as a mommy! How does it feel?
Love you!!
Feels (felt) amazing…best birthday yet!
Happy birthday! I hope you had a wonderful day – these meringues would surely help
happy belated birthday my love!!
Happy Birthday!!! Hope you have a great day with Baby Cakes
I love that we both posted chocolate almond meringues! happy birthday my dear, hope it was all sorts of fabulous! xx
Ahh, I didn’t see yours!! I’m going to check them out now!!
Happy Birthday, Katie! I hope you had a great day! My family has a couple birthdays this week too. My dog’s birthday is today and my Mom’s birthday is tomorrow!
Happy birthday to your pup and your mama!
As Dwight would say, ‘It is your birthday’.
Ahahaha! Love Dwight. Love you. Thanks.
Happy Birthday!!!! Hope it was a good one!!!
These look fabulous! Happy birthday!
Happy Birthday Katie! I hope you had a wonderful day and an even better Christmas!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
Happy Birthday!!
Those look simply divine!!
omg i’m obsessed with meringues and how they just melt in your mouth! these look delicious and i bet its fabulous when the cookie melts and all you’re left with is chocolatec hiiiiiips!!