Coconut Macaroons (Pg 62)

This was exciting for me. I had always been really curious about macaroons. Why? I'm not sure. I guess just because I couldn't eat them, because since I was young I was allergic to eggs. But with age (your body changes every 7 years, right?) and changing my diet, I have overcome my egg allergy. It's a long and complicated story, but now I get to eat macaroons!

I don't think anything could be easier to make. Coconut flakes, sugar, and egg whites and there you go. They were a little difficult to mold because the coconut flakes were unsweetened and they were completely dry so a lot of little flakes escaped and ended up all alone and burnt on the cookie sheet. But I guess something like that is hard to avoid, what with coconut flakes being so hard to control.

Besides that little complication, these were easy and fun to make, and they tasted really awesome. The recipe has three variations - the plain coconut, the chocolate chunk, and the chocolate. I didn't make the chocolate because it required changing the amount of coconut flake, and since I was doubling the recipe it just seemed like too much math to separate 1/3 of it out and recalcuate coconut flakes and whatnot.

So I doubled the recipe and then put chocolate chips in half of it. Both were really delicious, but I'm partial to chocolate so that was the one I liked better. I think the chocolate ones honestly would've been a bit too chocolatey, it might've taken away from the lovely coconutey flavor. I love coconut, and it's nice with chocolate, but you don't want the chocolate overpowering the coconut.



Yield:
Recipe predicts: 1.5 dozen, but I doubled the recipe so it should've been 3 dozen.
Actual: 5 dozen (half plain and half chocolate chunk)

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