Lemon Meringue Cookies Recipe

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Lemon Meringue Cookies
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Ingredients:

  • 1/2 cup margarine
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 1 egg
  • 1 3/4 cups flour
  • 1/4 tsp salt
  • 1/4 cup sugar

Directions:

  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees and grease 2 cookie sheets.
  2. Cream butter and 1 cup sugar. Add egg and lemon extract; beat hard.
  3. In separate bowl, combine flour, baking powder and salt; add to the creamed butter mixture and mix well.
  4. For small cookies: pinch off portions of dough and roll into marble-sized balls. For larger cookies: use tablespoonfuls and roll into balls.
  5. Place remaining 1/4 cup sugar in a shallow dish and roll dough balls in it, rolling a few at a time and placing them on the greased cookie sheets after (place about 1 -2 apart depending on the size you choose to make the cookies).
  6. Using the bottom of a buttered and sugared, flat-bottomed drinking glass, flatten each cookie to about 1/8 by pressing them down with the glass. You can also do this all at once with a large glass baking dish by buttering and sugaring the bottom and pressing down all the cookies at once.
  7. Bake cookies 2 sheets at a time for 8-10 minutes or until golden brown, rotating the top sheet to the bottom shelf (and vice versa) half way through baking. Cool sheets in between batches if you have to use the sheets more than once.
  8. When the cookies come out of the oven, let them sit for just a minute to harden and then remove them as soon as they are hard enough to take off the sheet without ripping or breaking. Cool on racks.
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Nutrition Facts

Per ServingPer 100 g
Amount Per 1 Serving
Calories 806.43 Kcal (3376 kJ)
Calories from fat 337.86 Kcal
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 37.54g 58%
Cholesterol 40.92mg 14%
Sodium 1631.64mg 68%
Potassium 275.67mg 6%
Total Carbs 108.05g 36%
Sugars 36.75g 147%
Dietary Fiber 7.27g 29%
Protein 9.71g 19%
Vitamin A 0.3mg 9%
Iron 4.5mg 25%
Calcium 255.2mg 26%
Amount Per 100 g
Calories 425.76 Kcal (1783 kJ)
Calories from fat 178.37 Kcal
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 19.82g 58%
Cholesterol 21.6mg 14%
Sodium 861.42mg 68%
Potassium 145.54mg 6%
Total Carbs 57.04g 36%
Sugars 19.4g 147%
Dietary Fiber 3.84g 29%
Protein 5.13g 19%
Vitamin A 0.1mg 9%
Iron 2.4mg 25%
Calcium 134.7mg 26%

* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet. Your daily values may be higher or lower depending on your calorie needs.
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Tastes

  • salty
  • savory
  • bitter
  • sweet
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Weightwatchers Points

  • 18.5
    Points
  • 22
    PointsPlus

Good Points

  • saturated fat free,
  • good source of fiber

Bad Points

  • High in Sodium

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