For me, it’s just not Passover unless we have macaroons.That’s macaroons, with two oo’s, the ones made with coconut, not to be confused with macarons, the French confection, with one o, which are typically made with ground almonds, powdered sugar and egg whites.
In fact, I love macaroons so much that I dressed up as a chocolate one several years ago. My youngest sister, in Toronto, held a masquerade Seder. We all had to come dressed as our favorite Passover character. I took a little creative license and showed up dressed head to toe in chocolate-brown, topped with a very large pyramid-shaped cardboard hat, covered with macaroons. A word of advice for anyone thinking of trying this – don’t! I used canned macaroons (I didn’t want to waste the homemade ones for a craft project) and they became very heavy when coated with glue. The overpowering stench of coconut and glue, as we drove from Ottawa to Toronto, left everyone in out van feeling quite ill.
However, it didn’t cure me of my love for all things coconut, especially macaroons. Cookbook author, dessert chef and Chocolatier Alice Medrich, created these incredible macaroons in her recent book, “Chewy, Gooey, Crispy, Crunchy, Melt-in-Your-Mouth Cookies.” Leave it to Alice to come up with a genius twist on this classic cookie. Instead of using shredded or desiccated coconut, Alice suggests using coconut chips. These are wide shavings of unsweetened coconut that can be found in most health and bulk food stores these days.
Chewy, toasty and supremely yummy! The pure coconut flavour really shines through in these stunning beauties. Alice suggests shoving a large chunk of bittersweet chocolate into the centre of each cookie to take a great cookie over the top!
Egg whites, coconut chips, vanilla extract, sugar and a pinch of salt all get mixed together in a large bowl. I used vanilla extract paste so you can see the flecks of the vanilla bean seeds in my mixture. The bowl then gets set in a large pan of simmering water, to heat the mixture through and thicken the egg whites.
I used a small ice cream scoop (about 3/4 of an ounce) to form the macaroons. I stuck a piece of 70% bittersweet chocolate in the centre of each before baking. Unfortunately they oozed right out once I baked them.
I got a little smarter on the second tray and carefully inserted the chocolate into the centre of the macaroon and used wet fingertips to make sure chocolate was mostly enclosed. It wasn’t until I baked them all that I reread the recipe and discovered that Alice inserts the chocolate after baking, while macaroon is still warm!
However you insert the chocolate, these macaroons are pure coconut heaven!
Click here to print recipe for New Classic Coconut Macaroons.
You really dressed up like a macaroon? Now, that is love. Hmmm, I can’t imagine why you didn’t post a photo of your costume. 😉
Putting the chocolate in the middle is pure genius–an inside out macaroon. And these sound easier than dipping the bottoms of the finished cookie in melted chocolate. Maybe I’ll put these in my husband’s Easter basket this weekend. He loves coconut as much as I do. Thank you!
Yum! I’ll have to try these out for Easter!
These look absolutely delicious. I was actually going to try a chocolate macaroon recipe, but I think I might use yours instead!
really i love to learn new kind of dish………thank you for sharing this i will try in home……………..
Delicious. Thanks for sharing. Connie
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Your macaroons look amazing ! Wish I gotta have try too :p
Oh my word, they sound absolutely divine. I will be trying that as soon as I get some minutes to myself! Thank you for blogging such a delicious looking recipe.
Looks delish! Now I know what to bring for our Easter potluck. Thanks!
I love macaroons and these look absolutely delicious! Thanks for sharing 🙂
YUM! So glad to have found your blog 🙂
Love the melted chocolate center! These look beautiful 🙂
A classic in deed!
They look delicious. Thanks for the recipe!
Those look delicious!
They look tasty, thanks for recipe!
Hmmmmm, hungry!
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These are rustic and lovely. NUM.
Oh my goodness I should not have looked at this! Nothing is open here today. I want these so bad! Awesome!!!!! Can’t wait to try em. Best part is my boyfriend doesn’t like macaroons! Yay!
These look awesome! I will have to try them!
So beautiful! I love a good coconut dessert.
ouh, mouthwatering, actually these macaroons are less sophisticated than the other version of macarons, but provide much more direct sensation and emotion … plus with the chocolate, great idea!
Oh my gosh. Those look absolutely amazing. Hopefully when I try them they will turn out as lovely as yours did!
These look yummy…Will try making them tomorrow. Thank you for sharing the recipe 🙂
These look yummy…will try making them tomorrow…Thank you for sharing the recipe 🙂
WHere do I go to get one? They look scrumptious.
I too adore the idea of the inside-out chocolate macaroon. They look lovely.
Oh, I have been looking for a good macaroon recipe for ages–thank you so much for sharing!
These look amazing!
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I love macaroons. Never tried adding the chocolate. I don’t know why, since I am a person who believes with every fiber of my being that chocolate makes EVERYTHING better. I think I feel a baking spree coming on.
Thanks for sharing and congratulations on being “Freshly Pressed.”
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Love your idea of filling them with chocolate after baking! I usually chop chocolate chips into tiny flakes and mix them into the batter. Definitely trying your method soon. Thanks for posting!
excellent………..
mmmhhh how scrumptious must go out and get the ingredients
Yum! Thank you for sharing this recipe.
Hi Salty and Serenity!!!
I’m new to blogging and it is a very great way to get to know other people with the same interest. What caught my eye was the coconut macroones with the chocolate interior. Anything coconut and chocolate I’ll go crazy for. I’ll buy the store macroones and with a jar of Nutella (hazelnut/ cocoa spread) I’ll spread some over the macroons and they are to die for!!! But now I got to try your recipe. Thank you!
The chocolate on the inside is a great idea. I made these not so long ago but used Stevia instead of sugar as a healthier alternative and everyone said they were delicious!
These are delicious! I made them not so long ago but with stevia instead of sugar as a healthier alternative and they were scrumptious 🙂
Did stevia change the texture at all?
I have never made them with sugar before so I don’t know…but everyone said that they tasted great with stevia though!
They look amazing–I love that the chocolate is put into the center!
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These look and sound so good! I seriously love coconut and the chocolate in the middle is awesome. Thanks so much!
Thank you for explaining what coconut chips are – I was picturing some weird hybrid white chocolate chip with coconut flavoring when I came across it in a couple of recipes last night. I’ve had macaroons on the brain since I had one a few weeks ago at a Persian bakery – covered in dark chocolate with chopped pistachios on top.
Everyone else can have their macarons. I’m for the OOOOOOOh in coconut macaroons!
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The coconut chips sounds like a really good idea for true coconut flavor.
Yummy, they look absolutely delicious!
These sound amazing!! Thanks for sharing this recipe – I can’t wait to make them!!
Yum. Macaroons are one of the best!
These just look yummy, and actually a lot easier than I thought these cookies were to make.
I just made macaroons today as well. Love the chocolate idea inside yours.
Its some new and creative recipe
Perhaps you don’t have any photos of your Macaroon costume. If you do, consider this a pleasant plea placed, perhaps persnickety, petitioning a permitted peek.
But this, please know; your macaroons have found a place of prominence in my recipe catalog. Your post is promoted on my Facebook page as well.”
May I compliment you on the quality photographs in your posts? No small task.
Sincerely,
Carole Anne
Sorry Carole Anne, no photos of me dressed as a macaroon! Thanks for your sweet compliments!
Swoon!! This I am going to make.
nice cooking..
taste is best
That recipe looks and sounds yummy…next time I’ll make them it will be this one.
So Yummy. Love to have Macroons.
i hadn’t got eat macaroons and i have never been
Awesome recipe – I love macaroons, too! Can’t wait to try them 🙂
Congrats on being Freshly Pressed!
Those macaroons look yummy
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I love making macaroons. I never thought about stuffing something inside like this. Love the idea of the small bit of dark chocolate inside! Lovely recipe and photos!
Wow, must be very very delicious, admire your skill so much.
Thanks for sharing.
I must try that, thanks
can’t wait to make this!!!!what a great blog!!!
Liked it! Good luck
i will definitely give this a try! i love macaroons!
Girlfriend, you & me must be soul sisters ’cause I thought I was a coconut freak but dressed as a Macaroon?! I love it! Being of Puerto Rican descent, I just love love love this delicious nut. Ur making me homesick reading this scrumptious recipe. Make a point of going to Puerto Rico at least once in your life and try the Coco Frio (fresh green coconut, freezing cold and cut with a machete) with straw in center on a hot day! And please don’t leave without trying the Helado de Coco (true coconut ice cream). Soooooooooooooooo delicious you’ll think you’ve died and gone to Heaven.
A girl after my own heart. We must be “soul sisters” ’cause I am a coconut freak. If you’re ever in Puerto Rico please try “Helado de Coco” (coconut ice cream) It is to die for!!! Now I’m home sick 🙁
Always nice to meet a fellow coconut soul sister. I adore coconut ice cream too! Must get to Puerto Rico soon!
Thank you for clearing up the Macaron vs. Macaroon mystery for me. I have a nut allergy, so I can’t have the one “o” type, but I CAN eat your double “o” double yummy recipe! I am anxious to try it out! Thanks for sharing and congrats on being freshly Pressed! 🙂
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These look so pretty!
They look soooo yummy!!!
Love it! Don’t bake much but you have inspired me!
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Looks divine! Thanks for sharing this recipe! Have a great week! 🙂
what kind of camera do you use? nice pics. I made macaroons in December and macarons in February ha ha.
Thanks for the compliment Patty.I shoot with a Canomn 10D SLR. I try not to use flash and almost always shoot beside a window, with my camera set upon a tripod.
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I typically only eat macaroons on Pesach, and the types I’ve had, the canned ones haven’t been all that great. I might try this out sometime.
My goal in life is to eradicate the world of canned macaroons! You will be forever changed once you try homemade1
omg. these sound amazing. and my name is alice so i extra love them. thanks for sharing and the lovely picts!
coconut. chocolate. macaroons. heaven!
Yum! These look fabulous!
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These are look very very delicious… We like it… Thaks for sharing these nice recipes…
the macarOOns look fantastic! i’m smiling at the image of you in a macaroon costume. 😉
yum these look amazing
Ooh yummy!! This looks so good, deffo gunna give myself a treat and try this. After losing nearly 4 stone I think a treat is deserved.
You should go check out my before and after pictures on my blog.
Thanks for sharing, can’t wait to try.
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Nice recipe they look deelish! Thanks for posting! ^.^~
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We just linked to this recipe on our latest blog posts. Thanks for the inspiration!
Thanks for the link!
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Hi!
This recipe has been a big hit with my family. Today, we had a bake-off at the office, and I submitted them as an entry. Not only did they win, but they seem to be the entry with the most buzz. Thanks!
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Thanks Mr. Guilt. So glad they were a big hit at home and at the office. An office bake-off sounds like so much fun. You must work for a really great company!
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