Sin-free Chocolate Chews

Total Time: 3 hrs 27 mins Preparation Time: 3 hrs 15 mins Cook Time: 12 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 14
• 2 1/4 cups confectioners' sugar
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1 cup cocoa powder (dutch-process or natural)
• 3 egg whites
• 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
• 1/2 cup milk chocolate chips (optional)

Recipe

• 1 whisk together the sugar, salt, and cocoa.
• 2 in a medium-sized mixing bowl, stir together the egg whites and vanilla.
• 3 add the dry ingredients to the egg whites, and mix at low speed of an electric mixer for 2 minutes. the batter will seem dry at first, but will become shiny and smooth as it mixes.
• 4 cover the bowl, and refrigerate the batter for 3 hours, or up to overnight.
• 5 preheat the oven to 350°f.
• 6 grease (or line with parchment paper) two cookie sheets.
• 7 gently stir in chocolate chips, if using.
• 8 drop by ping-pong-sized balls onto cookie sheets.
• 9 bake for 12 minutes, reversing baking sheets (top/bottom) once during cooking.
• 10 cool 5 minutes in pans before transferring to wire rack.