It’s springtime! And the Easter Bunny is visiting soon. This year we’re going egg-free and indulging in aquafaba meringue instead! These light and fluffy cookies are vegan and, believe it or not, are made out of bean juice. We’ve been hearing so much about Aquafaba lately and have been excited to try using it in a recipe. Since Easter is here, we thought it would be a lot of fun to make some light, fluffy meringue cookies and fill our Easter baskets with them.
Aquafaba is the liquid found in a can of beans. When beans soak or cook in water it forms a thick, goopy liquid that is a great, vegan alternative to egg whites. It fluffs up when beaten just like egg whites and is odorless and tasteless and takes on the flavors of whatever you mix with it.
In the case of these meringue cookies, we mixed in some vanilla and sugar, but you can even make them sugar free and use stevia to sweeten them instead.
Then you just start mixing it with a blender until it starts to form stiff peaks. It acts very similar to egg whites, but with aquafaba you can lick the bowl without worrying about the possibility of getting sick from eating raw eggs. And we LOVE licking the bowl!
While researching aquafaba, we learned that you can use 1 Tbsp. as a replacement for one yolk, 2 Tbsp. for one white, and 3 Tbsp. for a whole egg. Nutritionally, aquafaba is mostly water and only has about 1 percent protein to an egg’s 10 percent protein. But if you are vegan it’s a great way to make fluffy, creamy recipes without any animal products.
We made a bunch of plain white ones to look like eggs.
We also colored some with superfood powders. We used turmeric powder for yellow and beet juice powder for red.
You can also use a naturally colored, organic food gel and squirt it on the inside of the baggie to get a cool, colorful striped design on the cookies.
We hope that you enjoy making these tasty Vegan Meringue Aquafaba Cookies! If you like these videos, please subscribe to our channel. Thanks so much for watching! And we hope that you have a very hippity hoppity Easter holiday!
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