REC: Cream Cheese Macaroons as mentioned in post #9614
BITTERSWEET CHOCOLATE COCONUT MACAROONS
Preheat oven to 325º. Line cookie sheet
with parchment paper.
2 ozs. unsalted butter
2 ozs. unsweetened chocolate
2 ozs. semi sweet chocolate
1/2 cup + 4Tbls. sugar (I use Splenda)
4 eggs
pinch of salt
1 Tbls. vanilla extract
1 tsp. almond extract
14 ozs. shredded coconut
Melt chocolate and butter, stir until smooth.
Remove from heat, cool for about 2 minutes.
Stir in sugar, adding eggs one at a time, until mixture is smooth.
Stir in extracts, salt and coconut.
Form into about 48 cookies.
Place 1 inch apart on parchment paper lined cookie sheet.
bake about 25 minutes.
BLACK AND WHITE MACAROONS
12 ozs. cream cheese
1 tsp.almond extract
1 cup sugar
16 ozs. shredded coconut
8 ozs. finely chopped nuts (optional)
Mix cheese, extract and sugar. Stir in
coconut and nuts. Make a depression
the the back of a teaspoon in the mounded
chocolate cookies and put a mound of the
white mixtture in the depression. Pile it
as high as you like and bake for 25 minutes
at 325º.
NOTE: I have baked the white macaroons separately also.
I know some of us are trying to drop a few pounds
now, so if you make these, remember "moderation"
but still enjoy them. LOL