Categories: Cookies

Ingredients

• 2 egg whites
• 3/4 cup white sugar
• pinch of salt
• 6-ounce package mini chocolate chips
• 1 cup finely chopped pecans

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 400°F, rack in the middle position.

2. Prepare your cookie sheet by lining it with parchment paper.

3. Place the egg whites in the bowl of an electric mixer and beat them until they are foamy.

4. Continue to beat while adding the white sugar by Tablespoons, sprinkling in the sugar over the very foamy egg whites.

5. Add the pinch of salt and beat until the egg whites are very stiff. (You are making a meringue.)

6. Once the egg whites are stiff enough to hold a peak when you shut off the mixer and test them, shut off the mixer and take out the bowl.

7. Sprinkle in the chocolate chips and gently fold them in with a rubber spatula, being careful not to lose any air.

8. Add the finely chopped pecans to the top of the bowl and fold them in by the same method you used with the chocolate chips.

9. Give the mixing bowl one more very gentle stir with the spatula.

10. Place your prepared cookie sheet next to your cookie bowl and transfer the dough by heaping teaspoons to the parchment paper.

11. Hannah’s 4th Note: One standard-size cookie sheet will hold all the Forgotten Cookies if you place them about an inch apart.

12. If your oven has reached the proper temperature, quickly open the door, slip in the cookies, and close it again.

13. TURN OFF THE OVEN, and DO NOT OPEN the door again until you get up in the morning.

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