Meringue Cookies

by Sharon Evans
Sharon Evans
I'm a self-taught baker and have done designer cookies for several years.  I started out baking cookies to treat the gang at work on holidays.  I got better and better at it and people were telling me, "These are wonderful, you need to go into business."  So, I took them up on it and started Sharon's Edible Art.  Now it's a paying hobby.  I try to design "outside the box" by trying different ideas to bring more 3-D images into the cookies.  I live in Carlsbad, NM.

Meringue Cookies

Meringue Cookies

These are meringue cookies tinted pink for Valentine's Day.  You start with an ice cream cone and dip it in melted milk chocolate.  Then you add a meringue cookie, top it with chocolate, and add another cookie.  Before it is sealed, you add conversation heart candies, heart-shaped red hots, and a message to make them "fortune cookies".  The idea came from a magazine, but they used the tapered cones.  For ease of transport and display, I chose to do them with the flat-bottomed cones.