Chocolate and Coconut Macaroons
Author/Submitted by: Jo Merrill Servings: 30 Categories:
Chocolate
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Cookies
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Desserts
Ingredients: 1
unsweetened chocolate squares 4
ounces
baking chocolate,
sweet
2
large
egg whites 1/2
cup
sugar 1
pinch
salt 2
cans
flaked coconut,
3 1/2 oz ea
1
teaspoon
vanilla extract
Directions:
Melt together in the top of a double boiler, over hot water, the
unsweetened
chocolate and sweet cooking chocolate. Stir until smooth; remove from heat
and
cool. Beat the egg whites with a rotary beater until stiff. Gradually
beat in
sugar. Add the cooled chocolate mixture and continure beating until well
mixed.
Fold in flaked coconut. Drop by teaspoonfuls onto well-buttered baking
sheets, making about 30 cookies. Bake in preheated 325 degree oven until
stiff
on the outside but still a little soft on inside, about 16 minutes.
Remove
from oven and loosen with a spatula. Remove from pan when cookies are
completely
cooled.
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