Chocolate-Cherry Chunk Meringues

These are very good! I was careful to add the sugar slowly, and used bittersweet chocolate. Didn't have cherries so I used vanilla instead of almond. Everyone loved them and had to send them home with them so we would not eat them all. Am making them today!

I will admit that I didn't quite follow the recipe exactly because I read it thoroughly too late. For one, I never was able to get the mixture to peak once I added the sugar. This may have been because I added the sugar all at once, instead of by tablespoon. Another thing that didn't go great was that my oven, at lowest marked temperature is 260. So I put it a little below that and then only cooked it for an hour. The cookies seemed done, but were really difficult to cut into pieces, even though I did score them. Overall, I found the cookies much too sweet for myself, but I'm also not fond of overly-sweet things. Not sure that I would make these in the future.

I made this multiple times last holiday season and it was so good it made my permanent list. I used the chili infused dark chocolate as suggested by another reviewer, and cherry flavored dried cranberries, but otherwise made it as written. Everyone who tried it loved it.

Great taste, buuut couldn't get it to make stiff peaks once I added the powdered sugar. Made it twice with same results. Second time I dropped it into mini cupcake papers so I could have individual portions.

Beautiful recipe.... turned out better than expected. I used orange extract, sour cherries and chili infused dark chocolate. Can't stop eating them! Followed directions as given and it came out wonderful.