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  • Gluten Free Chocolate Pavlova Cookies

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    Ingredients

    • 3 cups icing sugar, powdered sugar measured and then sifted
    • 2/3 cup cocoa, measured and then sifted
    • 2 tsp corn starch
    • pinch salt
    • 4 large egg whites
    • 1 tsp vanilla extract
    • 1/2 tsp plain white vinegar
    • 1 cup chocolate chips

    Directions

    Gluten Free Chocolate Pavlova Cookies. Whether you bake gluten free or not, you’ll never throw out leftover egg whites again when you discover these decadent cookies. Gluten Free Chocolate Pavlova Cookies. You may have seen lots of photos that look much like these gluten free chocolate pavlova cookies, particularly on Pinterest. The recipes are all quite similar as well, if you look at them closely. I tried several of them before tweaking this recipe to make it work best for me. Gluten Free Chocolate Pavlova Cookies I wanted a crispy edge and overall stable structure to the cookie with a soft chewy centre. A couple of the recipes I tried had a batter that was too liquid and spread everywhere. Another was too dry with a little too much cocoa I think which ended up with a tasty but far too crispy cookie. Gluten Free Chocolate Pavlova Cookies I decided to adjust the ingredient amounts myself and add a couple of tricks I’d learned before. The best tweaks were inspired by making one of my favourite meringue based desserts, a simple pavlova. The trick to getting a crispy pavlova with a soft centre is to add a little corn starch and a relatively tiny amount of vinegar to the meringue. Gluten Free Chocolate Pavlova Cookies ready for the oven. Since these cookies are basically an unwhipped meringue I decided to apply that technique to these cookies. It was just an experiment but it worked like a dream. They turned out perfect. I like to use 50% dark chocolate chips but you can use semisweet as well. Some more tips for these pavlova cookies: One note that I always try to include in cookie recipes has to do with even slight variations between oven temperatures. It’s practically impossible to write a standard baking time into a chewy cookie recipe. Sift the icing sugar (powdered sugar) to ensure no lumps in the batter. Sift the cocoa as well. Chocolate Pavlova Cookies finished batter. The difference between a chewy cookie and an overbaked cookie can be as little as a minute in many ovens, so I always suggest getting the oven well preheated get the cookie sheet into the oven as fast as possible so the heat will come back up quickly with any new cookie recipe bake a test batch of only 2 or 3 cookies to get the oven timing perfect before baking the rest of the batch. be sure to make a note on the recipe of the exact time that they were in the oven for when you bake the cookies next time. Add a few chips to the top as well, if you like. Originally published sept. 2014. Updated December 2020. Like this Gluten Free Chocolate Pavlova Cookie recipe? Be sure to browse the photo index of over 200 cookie and cookie bar recipes is in our expansive Cookies Category. It’s easy to keep up with the latest home style cooking & baking ideas from Rock Recipes. Be sure to follow Rock Recipes Facebook Page and follow us on Instagram.  Plus you’ll see daily recipe suggestions from decadent desserts to quick delicious weekday meals too.  You can also sign up for our FREE newsletter to know immediately when we add new recipes. You’ll also get weekly suggestions for great family friendly  meals and desserts too! Rock Recipes a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for us to earn fees by linking to Amazon.com and affiliated sites. Our product recommendations are almost exclusively for those we currently use or have used in the past.   Visit my Amazon Store for my favourite kitchen gadgets and appliances, plus recommendations from my personal cookbook collection. 6519shares 146 6306 67

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