Lemon Vanilla Meringues

The Ingredients

3 egg whites

1/2 c sugar

1 tsp vanilla extract

zest of 1 lemon

lemon juice (1 lemon)

Note: if you don't want to waste your egg yolks, set them aside. You can use them for delicious hollandaise sauce for eggs benedict. 

Combine all ingredients into a bowl. If you want to get fancy, you can fold the other ingredients into the egg whites. Use a standing mixer to mix ingredients until the egg whites have stiff peaks. They should still stick to the mixer like this:

Bake for 3 hours at 200 degrees. Enjoy! 

Ready to be baked

Baking time

They should be baked for about 3 hours at 200 degrees. The trick is to cook them "low and slow." I read that often the oven door can be propped open with a wooden spoon (which I did). Next time, I may try this with my dehydrator! The texture on these is amazing, and the vanilla and lemon really work well together. 

Light, sugary nom noms

Not the prettiest, but they are amazing!