I have been being nagged by a good friend of mine for some coconut macaroons. So I decided today to make them, but change them up a notch for the holiday season. So this is my first New Years recipe. I had to actually leave the kitchen and type this blog in the living room so I would quit eating them. They are so moist and the white chocolate just adds an additional layer of taste. I found it easiest to melt the white chocolate and put in a small squeeze bottle with a small tip. That way I could just go back and forth across them once they cooled.
I am delivering these to her in about 30 minutes. Lets see if she gives a thumbs up on this new twist to her favorite cookie of mine.
Ingredients
- 1 pkg. (11 oz) Sweetened Flake Coconut
- 2/3 cup sugar
- 4 tsp. cocoa powder
- 1/2 bottle red food coloring
- 8 Tbsp. cake flour
- 1/4 tsp. salt
- 4 egg whites
- 1/2 c. water
- 1 tsp. vanilla extract
- Bring water and sugar in sauce pan to boil.
- Place coconut, egg whites and flour, salt and cocoa in bowl with paddle and mix together.
- Add liquid, vanilla, and food coloring to mixer and continue mixing till cooled down.
Then I use a pastry bag with the medium star tip and squeeze out about a quarter dollar sized circle onto baking sheet.
Bake at 325F. for about 15 minutes. Keep an eye on them incase your oven cooks quicker, you don’t want to burn these beauties.
Let cool slightly before removing to wire rack.
They are good like this, or you can melt some white chocolate and drizzle across them after they are cool on the cookie rack.
How cute are these for valentines day!? I love coconut macaroons!
They look and sound amazing! I will add these to my must make list!
I think I gained a few pounds just reading this and staring at the pictures. This looks de-li-cious! Sounds like something I need to whip up in the kitchen this weekend. Thanks, Greg!
Random Mom, you have to share pictures of yours if you make them. You will eat the whole first batch, I’m warning you. I know this, because I did….Thanks for stopping by
Greg, I consider myself an experienced baker but felt your instructions weren’t complete. When should the water and vanilla be added? I added it after heating the eggs, sugar and salt. After all the dry ingredients were added the mix was very runny and ran out the sides of the scooped macaroon on the cookie sheet. When baked, they were all connected by the liquid mix that ran when scooped. The favor was not good either. If anyone has tried these, let me know what I did wrong.