Sweet and Savory Recipes to Help You Use Up Those Leftover Egg Whites

Recipe: Mini Meringue Puffs

Egg whites are the secret to these sweet, delicate puffs of air that deliver a sugary kiss with each bite.

Recipe: White Cake with Berry-Swiss Meringue Buttercream

Swiss Meringue Buttercream is always a delicious way to use up extra egg whites, and the recipe is easily adjustable for the amount of cake you'd like to cover.

Recipe: Best-Ever Lemon Meringue Pie

This classic pie's Mile High Meringue requires a few more egg whites than those you'll have left over after making the filling, so it's a great recipe if you have additional egg whites in your fridge.

Recipe: Fudgy Flourless Chocolate-Pecan Cookies

Rich, dense, crispy and gooey—the key to these airy cookies are egg whites, which render them brownie-like. Toasted, chopped pecans add a definitive crunch.

Recipe: Almond Meringue Puffs with Hazelnut-Chocolate Filling

Bright, happy meringue puffs hide a decadent, nutty filling.

Recipe: Vanilla Macarons

The base of this ephemeral French treat is egg whites and almond flour. Do it right, and you'll get a crispy, crunchy, crackly shell sandwiching a rich filling.

Recipe: Easy Coconut Macaroons

With just a few pantry staples and a couple leftover egg whites, you have a sweet, tropical treat.

Recipe: Lavender-Ginger Meringue Twists

The scant addition of ginger and lavender to our Basic Meringue instantly elevates it to tea-party food.

Recipe: Brownie Baked Alaska

In our take on the Baked Alaska, we use a rich brownie as the base in lieu of the sponge cake, and pile on the vanilla ice cream and meringue swirls.

Recipe: Soda Cracker Pie

This pie is proof yet again that Southerners are geniuses when it comes to whipping something up out of nothing.

Recipe: Pumpkin Soufflé

Clocking in at a whopping six egg whites, these soufflés are light, airy, delicate, and delicious.

Recipe: Warm Cheese Box Bites

Not all egg white recipes have to be sweet. Case en point: Cheese Box Bites. You'll need three egg whites to whip up these creamy, cheesy puffs that toe the lines between cracker, puff, and straw.

Recipe: Coconut Meringues with Elderflower Strawberries

Serve these beauties at your next garden party or summer shower. Elderflower liqueur perfumes the berries, which sit on beds of mascarpone whipped cream in a dainty pavlova shell.

Recipe: Angel Food Cake

Pillowy soft, this cake requires 12 egg whites, so save up!