Sin-Free Chocolate Chews - cooking recipe

Ingredients

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)

Preparation

Whisk together the sugar, salt, and cocoa.
In a medium-sized mixing bowl, stir together the egg whites and vanilla.
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.
Cover the bowl, and refrigerate the batter for 3 hours, or up to overnight.
Preheat the oven to 350\u00b0F.
Grease (or line with parchment paper) two cookie sheets.
Gently stir in chocolate chips, if using.
Drop by ping-pong-sized balls onto cookie sheets.
Bake for 12 minutes, reversing baking sheets (top/bottom) once during cooking.
Cool 5 minutes in pans before transferring to wire rack.