Light and airy meringue cookies that melt in your mouth are the perfect sweet treat idea. These ghost-shaped Halloween snacks are one of my most popular creations. The kids adore them and the biggest plus is that they are also crazy easy to make.

Meringue might seem a bit scary to make, but hey, ‘tis the season to face all our fears. There are so many stories about how we can fail the meringues. But honestly if you follow my instructions, you cannot fail. It is a seriously simple and completely foolproof way to make these cookies. Also smaller meringues are easier to bake correctly than bigger😉.

Make some spooky cookies to your kids or to your Halloween party guests and enjoy being the Halloween snack queen.

Meringue Ghost Cookie Recipe

Ingredients

• Three egg whites (medium sized eggs)
• 170 g of sugar 3/4 of a cup
• 1 teaspoon of vanilla / one pack of vanilla sugar
• Half a teaspoon of vinegar or a squeeze of lemon juice.

Instructions

Beat the egg whites (in a standup mixer or by hand) until firm peaks form.

Add sugar little by little.

Add vanilla and vinegar or lemon juice.

Keep whipping until the meringue is glossy, holds stiff peaks and you can’t feel the sugar any more while rubbing between two fingers.

Heat the oven to 95C/200F.

Pipe small ghost-shaped meringue cookies on two parchment covered baking sheets.

Bake for 90-120 minutes until the cookies peel easily off the parchment paper.

Let cool.

Use a black edible marker to draw eyes and a screaming mouth on your ghosts.

Enjoy the kids’ cries of delight when they discover these!

Meringue cookies are a winner in any case, but if they happen to be ghost-shaped? You might just win the best parent award if you bring a bunch of these to the snack table👻😉.

I hope you got some inspiration here. Don’t forget to follow me on Instagram for more tips and recipes (and some mom-life related ranting😄).

You can also download my list of 30 Healthy Snack Ideas for Kids so that you have healthy snacks to serve together with all the cookies.

If you need some smoothie inspiration you can grab my guide of 10 mood-boosting foods where you have six smoothie ideas to make your days a bit brighter!