Article: SPRING FEVER IN THE KITCHEN; AIRY MERINGUE COOKIES, RICOTTA EASTER PIE AND MORE.(CNY)(Recipe)(Column)

Spring has arrived, bringing the promise of longer days, gentle rains, budding flowers and green grass.

It's also a time to begin changing menus to lighter fare.

The recipe below for Festive Meringue Cookies offers a light, airy, low-fat confection with just 68 calories per cookie. Made with egg whites and sugar, the cookies can be tinted almost any color. You can also add different extracts to match, such as mint extract with green cookies, strawberry extract with pink cookies.

The cookies are just the ticket for special occasions such as baby showers, birthdays or any of the holidays -- from Easter to Christmas.

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