Chocolate Meringue Cookies

Dough:

1. Mix the butter, sugar and egg yolk until creamy. Mix and stir in the flour and cocoa and knead everything into an elastic dough. Roll this out between 2 layers of parchment paper into a rectangle of approx. 20 x 30 cm, place on a firm surface with the parchment paper and place in the refrigerator for 15 minutes. (The dough must not become too firm, it must still be possible to roll it up).

Filling:

1. Meanwhile, beat the egg whites with the salt until stiff. Mix the sugar with the cornstarch and stir in portions into the egg whites with the mixer running. Add a splash of lemon juice and whip everything until the egg whites are firm and shiny. When pulling out the stirring hooks, tips must stand and a pattern must remain visible.

Completion:

1. Take the pastry sheet out of the refrigerator. Peel off the top baking paper and replace it with cling film. Smooth this on the pastry sheet and press it down a little. Then turn the sheet of dough over so that the cling film is at the bottom and peel off the 2nd – now on top – baking paper. Pour the egg white mixture onto the dough and smooth it out with an angled palette.
2. Then use the cling film underneath the dough to roll up the sheet of dough from the long side. The “seam” at the end should be on the underside of the roll. Now tightly enclose the rolling pin with the cling film, twist the ends and place them in the refrigerator so smooth. How long, please determine yourself. It must have become so firm and hard that it no longer bends when you lift it. This will make it easier to cut later.
3. Preheat the oven to 175 °. Remove the rolling pin from the foil and cut into a 1 cm thick slice. Place these with a gap on a baking sheet lined with baking paper. Put in the middle of the oven. The baking time is 11-15 minutes. The meringue should take on a light color. Let the biscuits cool down on the baking tray, then loosen them.
4. The above number of people refers to pieces. The quantity can be between 18 and 20 pieces.
5. These biscuits look “funny”, but they are super tasty and are eaten away faster than baked. ………..