Chocolate-Nut Meringue Cookies

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Chocolate-Nut Meringue Cookies
Here’s an astounding achievement: chocolate-nut cookies with less than one gram of fat each! The secret is meringue. These chocolate-nut meringue cookies contain no butter or margarine and no egg yolks, yet they’re tender and rich tasting.


Ingredients
1⁄3 cup walnuts
1⁄2 cup plus 2 tablespoons icing sugar
1 tablespoon cocoa powder
1⁄4 teaspoon cinnamon
2 large egg whites
Directions
Preheat the oven to 300°F (150°C). Line 2 baking sheets with parchment paper. Toast the walnuts in a small saucepan, stirring frequently, until crisp and fragrant, about 7 minutes. When cool enough to handle, coarsely chop.
Sift together 1⁄2 cup icing sugar, cocoa powder and cinnamon.
Place the egg whites in a large bowl and beat with an electric mixer until stiff peaks form. Gently fold in the cocoa mixture with a spatula. Gently fold in the nuts.
Drop generous teaspoonfuls of the mixture onto the baking sheets, spacing them 2 cm apart. Bake until set, about 20 minutes. Remove and cool on a wire rack. Dust chocolate-nut meringue cookies with the remaining icing sugar just before serving.
Yum, I might leave out the nuts