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Coconut macaroons

One of the easiest cookies you can make are coconut macaroons.

Coconut Macaroons

Coconut macaroons

Cook Time 30 minutes
Total Time 30 minutes
Servings: 12 cookies
Course: Bakery
Cuisine: Baking, Dutch

Ingredients
  

Coconut macaroons
  • 250 gr sugar
  • 250 gr grated coconut
  • 3 eggs
  • 1 egg yolk
Stuffing
  • 120 gr soft butter
  • 220 gr caster sugar
  • 1 vanilla pod
  • 1 ts milk
Chocolate layer
  • 300 gr dark chocolate

Method
 

Coconut macaroons
  1. Preheat the oven to 180 ºC.
  1. Mix the sugar with the grated coconut, eggs and egg yolk.
  2. Make with a spoon balls of the batter and place the balls on a lined baking sheet. Push the balls a little flat.
  3. Bake in the oven for about 10 minutes until golden brown.
  4. Let the coconut macaroons cool down.
Stuffing
  1. Stir the butter smooth with powdered sugar.
  2. Halve the vanilla pod lengthwise, scrape out the marrow out and mix with the milk through butter.
  3. Spread a little padding on the bottom of a cookie, and then there's another cookie against.
  4. Allow the cookies to cool for about 10 minutes in the freezer.
Chocolate layer
  1. Melt the chocolate au bain-marie and pour two thirds out on a marble slab.
  2. Smooth the chocolate together with a palette knife until it is about 26 ºC.
  3. Fold in the cooled chocolate into the remaining chocolate and mix well and quickly mixed.
  4. Dip the cookies in half the chocolate.
  5. Allow to harden.