Sunday, November 6, 2011

coconut macaroons with chocolate and/or fruit!

Adapted from various places around the internet. Possibly the easiest recipe we've done yet! The final product is chewy, sweet-smelling, and delicious. The only part that was slightly tricky was un-sticking them from the baking tray at the end.
Makes ~20 good-sized macaroons.

Ingredients:
1 14 oz can of sweetened condensed milk
1.5 (12 oz) cups of shredded coconut
1 tsp vanilla extract
1 egg
Handful of dried fruit (here, apricots and pineapple), chopped
1 oz (or more) semi-sweet chocolate, chopped

Directions:
1. Beat egg with vanilla.
2. In a large bowl, combine coconut with condensed milk and egg mixture, mix well.
3. At this point, you can split the "batter" in half, which is what we did, adding fruit to one half and chocolate to the other so that you will get two different kinds of macaroons. Or, you can mix the fruit and chocolate together, which also works.
4. Put table-spoon sized portions of the mixture onto a greased baking tray.
5. Bake for ~15 minutes at 350F, until they are somewhat firmer and brown on the bottom.

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