My mother made these all the time and my sisters and I continue to make them. We use peppermint extract and tiny chocolate chips. Every year, the night before St. Paddy's day, I would make them after my sons fell asleep. I added green food coloring and left my kitchen counter a mess, proof that the leprechaun had visited and left a mess making them green cookies. You can use any extract, food coloring, nuts, candy, or chips. When my sister in law was pregnant, she was on bed rest and asked me to come over and make her some forgotten cookies. I made them and popped them in the oven and went home. She went into labor that night and her husband found them in the oven three days later. They were very forgotten.

@soggytortillla

7 ай бұрын

Thanks for sharing these memories :)) so wholesome

@KimJongUnnie

7 ай бұрын

The st Patrick’s day thing is so sweet

@sakura_sun

7 ай бұрын

What a lovely story! ❤

@AzureSkii.Kismet

7 ай бұрын

Thank you for sharing these adorable memories with us so heartwarming 💙

@AnniCarlsson

7 ай бұрын

I make a cake this way. Put shreaded coconut then the batter in the bakingpan as 1 big slob. Leave in oven overnigth. Takenit out. On a plate and top with lemoncurd. Then whipped cream and some raspberry or strawberry ontop. No extracs just vanilla powder and skip all those fillers in the batter

Older eggs tend to develop thinner whites which aids in the ability to whip them up faster in addition to creating more volume. This is primarily because an egg shell is semipermiable with air and as time passes more air accumulates inside the egg, this extra air then aids in increasing the alkalinity of the egg whites that causes a chemical change in the egg white protien that reverses the attraction to surrounding molecules, so rather then being drawn to eachother, in an alkaline environmemt the protiens in the egg whites begin to repel eachother. This also sort of explains why the egg whites in older eggs tend to seem/be more runny. I own a meringue and macaron buisness so a huuugge part of the craft is surrounded by eggs 😂. Anyways hope this helps, love your vids 😊👍🏻!!

@karenneill9109

7 ай бұрын

This is also why fresher eggs make better looking fried eggs- the white holds taller, doesn’t spread out as much, so it’s a bit rounder and ‘prettier’.

@saelmar

7 ай бұрын

My hero 😊

@rchallender2493

7 ай бұрын

@@karenneill9109 exactly 😁

@Neliciae

7 ай бұрын

I am enlightened! Thank you for this information ❤very helpful

@TweetyPAK7

7 ай бұрын

You gotta love science! Awesome explanation!

Church cookbooks are underappreciated. They contain the wisdom of generations! Some of the best food I've ever had has been in church basements.

@cindymichaud7111

7 ай бұрын

Amen! 💖✝✝

@snacktivist

6 ай бұрын

Agreed!

As a celiac, I love when you try fun gluten free recipes!

@maryjobaham4680

7 ай бұрын

Me too!!!

@LucyShea81

7 ай бұрын

Yes! I, too, have Celiac, so I always enjoy when she makes gf things!

@kelliazzam1594

7 ай бұрын

I love it too! Celiac for the win.. But not really. Lol

@LucyShea81

7 ай бұрын

@@kelliazzam1594 lol, right?! 🤦🏽‍♀️😅

@mjkk7120

7 ай бұрын

I also have Celiac.

They are perfect, I have a recipe for these in a vintage 1970s cookbook and they’re called nighty night cookies. You make them once you’ve been cooking all day and your oven is still hot but turned off. You mix up the cookies and stick them in your oven. You can add chocolate chips, nuts etc. and they’re so delicious. then you go to bed and once you wake up, you have cookies. I’ve been waiting for you to make these for years!!! So happy, you finally stumbled upon the recipe!! ❤❤🎉🎉

I first read about these cookies in a mystery. The cops had the time of death wrong because they didn't know the cookies were left overnight. So cool. I love them. I've made them lots of ways. With peppermint candies. With mint chocolate chips-Andes. With cherries. You can do so much with them and they are so easy to make.

@LeilahT

7 ай бұрын

That's such an excellent premise!

@scooterthecat6495

6 ай бұрын

Do you remember the name of the book? I would love to check it out.

@lynnakazato3315

6 ай бұрын

Id love to read this book

I grew up with theses. We called them forget me nots. It was great to be reminded of them. We made with cornflakes and chocolate chips.

@KrystyneY

7 ай бұрын

That sounds great!

@shelbykoch2573

7 ай бұрын

My Grandma called them Forget Me Nots too! We didn't use cornflakes in them but that sounds like it would be great

@readytogo3186

7 ай бұрын

Cornflakes! Bet Rice Krispies would work, too!

@spencers4121

5 ай бұрын

That's the name I know them by.

We always called these meringue cookies. They are indeed super sweet. We never used nuts, but did sometimes put in a few drops of almond extract. My notes say that our recipe was from the Five Roses Flour cook book and it says to bake for an hour at 250, then leave in the oven for a second hour to cool off (in case you don't want to leave them overnight).

@zypheri545

6 ай бұрын

They are not meringues. Totally different texture.

@spencers4121

5 ай бұрын

@@zypheri545 That's what they are often called, along with plenty of other names.

My friend passed me this recipe as a note at the end of school one day and I made them, I will never forget it.

These are similar to Resurrection Cookies we make on Saturday the night before Easter Sunday. No chocolate, just pecans. Every ingredient has a scripture we read as we make the recipe. In the morning, there are hollow tombs. When my kids were little, they would “guard the tomb” and sleep on the kitchen floor in sleeping bags.

@avylol08

6 ай бұрын

Reminds me of the resurrection rolls my mom used to make every Easter with marshmallows and croissant dough 💕

@SharpAssKnittingNeedles

27 күн бұрын

Shame on you for indoctrinating innocent children in your abrahamic hate cult. This kind of grooming has no place in a modern world led by reason

YES!!! Christmas staple from my great grandma, I made this for my elderly father in law and he was so confused as to why i was calling the nut-less divinty his mom used to make "forgotten cookies". So many names for this little nugget, and its one of my all times favorites! Thanks for the video!

@JohnHausser

7 ай бұрын

Your little grandma would be proud of you 😊

@lynnsenger9950

7 ай бұрын

My family also called them Divinity. Really popular at church functions and Christmas, with crushed candy canes.

@recoveringsoul755

7 ай бұрын

My mom just called them meringue cookies. Divinity was a completely different thing. Chewy candy that could pull your fillings out

@mattbosley3531

6 ай бұрын

This is similar to divinity but divinity has corn syrup added to it. The sugar and corn syrup are cooked with water before being added to the whipped egg whites.

I make these for my husband every Christmas. My MIL used to make them, and since my husband lost her in 2016, I make sure I keep up the tradition, and make them for him. We don’t put in nuts, and use mini-chocolate chips. I don’t add the vanilla until the very end(not sure why-my MIL said that’s what you should do, so I do it 😁), and it’s so cool to wake-up the next morning, and there they are. Enjoy!

@emmymade

7 ай бұрын

Way to keep the tradition alive. 🧡

Not only did you make something that looks delicious... You transmit the love and spread the passion for cooking. Thank you, wonderful recipe

My great grandma used to make these. She called them Kisses. She also added raspberry jello powder. They are delicious.

@supernovero

7 ай бұрын

I'll be trying that!

@evangelina3541

7 ай бұрын

How much of the jello powder? Is it used in place of the sugar?

@laraq07

6 ай бұрын

@@evangelina3541 No, the jello powder is there for flavour and colour (3 1/2 tbsp of the jello powder to a recipe with 3 egg whites and 3/4 cups of sugar) in the one I made.

@evangelina3541

6 ай бұрын

@@laraq07 Thank you for responding to my questions😃

This is similar to a recipe my family has been making since the 1970s. Ours used mini mint chocolate chips, which you can’t even get anymore, and omitted the nuts. A couple drops of green food coloring & voila -Little Green Babies!

@princessmariposa828

7 ай бұрын

I miss the mini mint chips they were so good in chocolate cookies

@cherylchristian5673

7 ай бұрын

Maybe some food coloring (pink) would look festive.

@monniedee1999

7 ай бұрын

I usually see the mint chocolate chips during the holiday season in the baking area of the grocery store 😊

@annehenderson2434

7 ай бұрын

The last time I made them, I used a bit of mint extract & they were quite tasty!

@snacktivist

6 ай бұрын

You can find them at the Bulk Barn and Bulk Barrel in Canada!

You can add Dutch Cocoa powder during the mixing, and add salted caramel bits and get an around outcome as well!

My son is wheat sensitive and we all love the fudgy black bean brownies we make. Except we use great white northern beans in it instead of black beans because they taste more buttery

@3:13 - glad I'm not the only one to have wholesome fun with food in the kitchen! Yesterday I came home with some lovely lush peaches and a BIG banana and I quietly arranged them artfully in the fruit bowl. My husband's reaction was priceless! They say we all need a good belly laugh daily for good health - so that was an added bonus to the healthy fruit!! Cheers from Oz!!

My grandmother had a friend who made this for us a few times & she called them “go to bed cookies!” They had a touch of mint & green coloring to them, but otherwise same as these!

Your hens lay the most beautiful eggs. This recipe works REALLY well with crushed Thin Mint cookies, too!

These are just meringue, like in Australia and New Zealand, we have pavlova a dessert, great video Emmy, cheers from Melbourne Australia 🇦🇺

@snacktivist

6 ай бұрын

Does AU/NZ have many meringue desserts?

@notold37

6 ай бұрын

@snacktivist there's a few, the pavalova is the main one

A favorite at our house we also add crushed candy cane. The other popular one is potato chip cookies.

I make these for my daughter at holidays. I’ve also made these with dark chocolate chips and pecans. I like the dark chocolate better. Helps cut the sugar in the meringue. 🙂

My family made something similar called “wasp Nests” we used toasted almond slivers and coco powder. Mix the cocoa powder into the meringue, then add the sliced almonds. (The cocoa powder should be enough to change the color of the meringue but not turn it brown. Then piled the cookies into a cone sort of shape. Bake at 250 until crispy

@lauraleeogan7523

6 ай бұрын

This gives me an idea wondering if they could be molded like a nest with a hole in the center. Afterwards, they could be filled with a sweetened cream cheese with or without food coloring added. Or, at Easter, some small candy eggs could be placed in the hole.

@katestewart-taylor9736

6 ай бұрын

@@lauraleeogan7523 I have seen them dyed straw colored and shaped like a nest, baked then filled with jelly beans

Yes! We called these Tomb cookies! We'd make them for Easter and since they're a little hollow inside they represented Jesus' empty tomb. We never used chocolate in them though; just nuts.

You're almost at 3 million! Congratulations in advance!! 🎉

My old recipe calls them Kentucky Kisses and says to add whatever nuts, rice crispies, chocolate... they're perfect YES!!🎉❤

I was having a really hard day and I’m so happy this video popped up in my notifications 💖

@emmymade

7 ай бұрын

🧡🧡🧡

@Hippiechick11

7 ай бұрын

Hope tomorrow is much better.

I can't wait to try these! Lots of flavor combinations running through my head - i think I'm going to try freeze-dried strawberry bits and mini chocolate chips with a little strawberry extract! Thank you Emmy!

I was so excited to see this video in my feed! I used to make meringue cookies all the time, they're one of my favorite sweet treats. I like to make them without any mix-ins, so that I can easily disperse them onto the cookie sheet with a piping bag.

I have made these for many years using finely ground instant coffee and mini chocolate chips for flavoring. They are family favorite.

Jazz hands! Meringue cookies are very nice. Thanks, Emmy ❣️

You never fail to make my day better ❤ thank you Emmy!

I make these as Christmas gifts every year. I make them with mint oil and mini chocolate chips. I got the recipe from my childhood best friends mom. She made them every year as Christmas gifts. The recipe is in her handwriting and I will treasure it always!

Egg white kisses...we had about half a dozen variations that my mom used. Plain with colored sugar sprinkles were for fancy.

Tinted red for Valentines would be nice

Older eggs have more air since they absorb it through the pores in the shell. This is also why older eggs float to the top in water and are no good for poaching.

My great granother used to make these. Yummy! I also think she figured out that if you wanted them the same day to bake in a 250 oven for a few minutes. Just keep checking them til they turn a light brown. Melt in your mouth.

My family's favorite! You can change them up with different chips, nuts, and flavorings.

So weird! I was just cleaning out a closet and found a little recipe book from Woman's Weekly Magazine dating back to 1979, I looked through all the recipes and the one for Forgotten cookies jumped out at me since I avoid sugar and grain (I can make these with a sugar substitute). This version was just egg whites, sugar, walnuts and chocolate chips, but I was intrigued! Now you magically test the recipe for me, so thanks!!! I look forward to trying these out, yum!

Oh my goodness, this just unlocked a memory. Thank you!!

My Grandma taught me how to make these when I was around 12 and my little mind was blown when they were done because I didn't believe we could bake cookies with an oven that wasn't on. It's one of the few memories I have with her and is definitely my favorite. She even let me write the recipe down on my very own recipe card to take home with me. When I made them myself I'd use chocolate chips or mini M&Ms but around Christmas time I would crush up the hard candy peppermints and use in them instead and they were such a delightful festive cookie. I haven't made them in years but I definitely should soon

@emmymade

7 ай бұрын

Ooo...crushed peppermints would be so good! 🍬

Sounds like what I always heard referred to as Divinity, and as a candy instead of as a cookie. My Dad was the Christmas candy maker in his family while growing up, and said that duck eggs made better Divinity.

@posilahz

7 ай бұрын

Your dad is right! At least in my family’s and my opinion. Duck eggs for everything lol

I use powdered sugar in all my recipes, that way it’s never grainy.😊

This seems like a great thing to make after finishing a batch of normal cookies. Instead of just letting the oven cool down you utilize the rest of that heat for cookies! Awesome!

WOAH! This is a blast from the past. My Grandma used to make these. She called them cloud cookies though. According to her the weather had an effect on how they turned out. I can't remember if she said rainy days would make them flat or fluffier. But I suspect she may have been pulling my leg back then. lol

@JohnHausser

7 ай бұрын

Ya 👵 would be surprised and proud of you

@ronaldjames4986

7 ай бұрын

Your Grandma wasn't lying! (She would never do that ). Humidity definitely affects how meringue bakes. I never bake anything with meringue on a rainy day. Humidity would tend to flatten them out and will also make them sticky. Grandma was telling the truth. 😀

@Jake200135

7 ай бұрын

Wow, today I learned something. Thanks! 😄@@ronaldjames4986

@CaliMel184

7 ай бұрын

She wasn't lying, it's true! My mom has had them not turn out when the humidity is too high. It makes them gooey and they don't set up correctly. It's best to make them on low humidity days if possible.

Yay, another awesome Emmy video!

A baked version of this is one of my father's traditional winter cookies (using mint chocolate chips). They come out nearly identical to what you show, except with peaks on the cookies (active heat lets them freeze in place before they droop), and with very slight browning. They're melt-in-your mouth, as they break apart as you bite into them and have very slight chew to them.

Finally someone makes these! Love these cookies. Delightfully simple and ready the next day.

I don’t typically comment, but I am so happy to see these on your channel! My dad has made them for Christmas and special occasions my entire life. They are some of my absolute favorite cookies. He has made a mint chocolate version that is very good as well.

This is a family holiday favorite for us! We call them Go To Bed Mints: mint chocolate chips (or chopped up Andi's mints) and a few drops of green food coloring, no nuts. Love how the exterior melts in your mouth! I've also made a raspberry version. It all depends on the flavor of chocolate you can find

Gives new meaning to the tag line, "Just set it and forget it!" My mother has made these in the past. They're delicious!

Mom used to make these every year at Christmas! They were wonderful. Unfortunately, none this year but maybe I will get brave enough to try and make them next year.

The little egg yolk jiggle made me laugh so hard. Thank you for always bringing a laugh, a smile and joy to my day. Love this recipe!

So many have said he’s was a tradition. Glad I got to see your video so I can try them for the first time.

I made these as a teenager! The recipe was in a school sponsored cookbook...they were really good! I bet my grandkids would like these

I am in New Zealand. Our local bakery makes meringues like these. They are called Rockafellas and contain toasted almond slices and chocolate chips Yum!

Oh I love these! They are a must when you have egg whites left over from recipes that only use yolks.

I **knew** these were going to be meringues! My recipe has me bake at a low temperature for an hour, then turn the oven off for an hour or two WITHOUT OPENING IT. I've used orange extract, then dipped them in dark chocolate before, but never mixed the chocolate in. I love making them because they're easy and SO good.

I make these for parties often. For baby showers, tint with pink or blue before folding in the chocolate chips. Soooo good!

I have made them using maple extract and walnuts, mini chocolate chips and peppermint extract. They are some of my families favorites. So much fun to make with the kids. My recipe is from a church cookbook also in Connecticut

Some family friends used to make these for Passover. They are kosher for Passover if you use the appropriate chocolate chips and super easy when you are cooking massive amounts of other food for the family meals.

Very cool! Another thing to keep in mind for making it gluten free is to check the ingredients of the vanilla used. Some include “caramel color” which can potentially contain gluten. (I only know because I’ve learned the hard way, being gluten intolerant myself!)

I love making these after a day of having the oven on like after doing a roast dinner to make the best use of the oven being on and not wasting any of the heat at all.

Similar to pecan kisses that I make coating pecan halves with the brown sugar meringue. And I have used chopped pecans to make as a cookie. Baking on parchment @ 300 F or 250 F 30 minutes. I think I will try the overnight oven method one day with it. The difference shown below using brown sugar version. 2 egg whites 1 c light brown sugar 1 tsp pure vanilla extract 2 c or more pecan halves I think with the white sugar meringue cookies I would omit the chocolate due to a personal taste. Pretty sure it was 1975 I found my recipe in an old cookbook that was my husband’s grandma’s cookbook. My daughter made them finally this past Christmas. Happy to add this recipe to my saved recipes.😢

I used to make these all the time when my Son was a toddler. I was taught how to make them from a co-worker and she just called them meringues. The first time I made them I left out food colouring because my kiddo got migraines but they'd have a yellowish tinge to them. I found out that green food colouring didn't give my Son migraines so I added that. I must hunt for my recipe now, it's at least 30 years since I made them.

My mom made these at Christmas when I was a kid, I miss that cookie, I’ll have to make a batch to have the memories flood in. Thanks for sharing!

I love it! Great old recipe....and while the process is different, they remind me of one of my Mom's favorites. So, if you want to look up Divinity, you'll be amazed, now that you know this. I love what you do, and who you are!

Oh I've made those with and M&Ms in them!

This is a common Christmas cookie in Norway. Not necessarily cooked over night but it's the same ingredients except we normally use hazelnuts. It's called vasp nest cookies😄 my sister is celiac and its one of my favorite gluten free cookies to make for Christmas!

I’ve made these for years and recently adapted the recipe to include a small amount of cocoa powder making them a chocolate meringue. My son calls them Chocolate Clouds.

These are extremely similar to a cookie my mom use to make, and I now make from time to time. They are called Meringue Kisses and are pretty easy to make. Basically the same as these but they are made with jello and bake at a lower temp for about 20mins then they sit in the oven for about 25mins.

Crushed candy canes or starlight mints make a great minty cookie as well. The red color also works for Valentines Day.

Emmie!! Thank you so much for this! I have Celiac disease, so absolutely no gluten for me! This recipe sounds amazing!! ❤

My coworker gave me this recipe but I had to see it for myself. How amazing ❤

My grandmother makes these for Christmas. Very light, airy cookies, and we all love the chunks of chocolate and pecans. I may have to mention the idea of mint or peppermint to her...

I make coconut macaroons it’s the same recipe except I add shredded coconut and bake for 5 min. 😊 simple delicious and elegant can’t wait to try this the over nite cookies next😊

@michelleshorey1399

6 ай бұрын

Thank you for saying this. I was just wondering if you could add coconut to it! How much coconut do you add?

My mom usesd to make these with coconut.

I made these in foods class, but we called them overnight cookies.

Thanks Emmy❤ I didn't know the name of these cookies but I remember Mom making them quite frequently when I was a child. And they were always taken to once a week pot luck night at church. Preachers wife ( Mom) always brought the best cookies..

@emmymade

7 ай бұрын

You're welcome! I hope you make (and enjoy) them for old times' sake.

I made these for Christmas,they are great !

I bet toasting the nuts first would make them even yummier ❤

I grew up with these cookies since I was a little girl in the 1950's. We called them meringue cookies. I'm 71 now and don't eat them very often since there's so much sugar. Trader Joe's sells meringue cookies in a bin. Some have chocolate chips but no nuts. They have vanilla and chocolate as basics and other flavors depending on which region you live in. As a person with celiac disease it was a cookie I could eat.

My mom used to make these for the kids in our church at Easter. She always called them “Resurrection Cookies”. Thank you for reminding me of these cookies!

Congratulations on your success Emmy. Your videos help me wind down at the end of each day ❤️

I am 65 and have been making these since I was a young teenager. We call them nighty night cookies. I have never met anyone else who has ever made them. I didn’t know that so many others knew the recipe. We have them every Christmas.

In Brazil, this is called "suspiros"! We also put a few drops of lime juice! It's delicious!

Meringues aren't forgotten. I've made them for years and they were a staple of the German bakery from my childhood. Theirs were about the size of a bun and had chocolate chips in them.

@raragrace5040

7 ай бұрын

She’s not saying they are forgotten, it’s just the name of the recipe bc you “forget” them in the oven… did you even watch the video? She says it in the first minute

@GPXgirl

7 ай бұрын

They’re so delicious. I have a recipe for these in a 1970s vintage cookbook. They’re called nighty night cookies. you make them once you’ve been cooking all day and your oven is turned off the heat from the oven, cooks the cookies. When you wake up in the morning, you have fresh baked cookies. It’s such a genius idea, you can add nuts, chocolate chips, butterscotch chips, white chips, cinnamon chips, so delicious. It’s not really a recipe for meringues though. Or else it would say meringues. Since most meringues are cooked in an actual oven that is turned on at a certain temperature. Even though the end results is a lot like meringue.

@rachel1817q

7 ай бұрын

The forgotten title is explained at 1:10

@JohnHausser

7 ай бұрын

You must be fun at parties

@mimosveta

7 ай бұрын

she explained where the name comes from dude

How do the ingredients differ from the typical meringue cookies?

@Ozziecatsmom

7 ай бұрын

It’s basically the same, just a different name.

I love this! This seems easier than making divinity. No corn syrup or candy thermometer needed!

Ground walnets and rum extract…that’s what we added to these. Yum.

A friend gave me a meringue cookie recipe like this, but I lost it. I remember these were real crowd pleasers. Thank you for posting this recipe.

What an interesting recipe for forgotten cookies

They are also called Divinity cookies; and you can add almost anything for a variety. I’ve added a few different cookies; spicy chai, Hawaiian coconut and pineapple. Over Christmas I added a fine matcha to one batch-crushed freeze died strawberries, caramel kisses-very sweet and worth the trouble!

As always, a lovely video. Thank you Emmy.

As a celiac I love that you are attempting this recipe. I would live to test them myself as well.

My aunt and cousins always made these at Christmas but with peppermint, chocolate chips and a little green food coloring. They were always my favorite!

My mother used to make these a lot. She was a secretary at a vocational school inside a men's prison. She took some to work one day and shared with the inmates. One took a bite and said, "Just what I always wanted - baked air." (He was kidding, of course. He liked it.)

Thank you for sharing this recipe, I’ll try to make it sometime. Best wishes to you

My very favorite!! My mom still makes them every year at Christmas. I used to call them "forget me cookies" :) My mom uses chocolate chips, peppermint extract, and a tiny bit of green food coloring to give a pastel mint tint to them. Just crumbly, light, crispy goodness!