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Coconut macaroons

I have happy childhood memories that revolve around coconut macaroons, summer vacations and gorging. A couple of weeks back I tried this  macaroon recipe that works wonderfully.Here it is..dscf0309

Ingredients:

  • 2 egg whites
  • 1 C powdered sugar
  • 1 ½ C desiccated coconut
  • 1 tsp vanilla
  • 1 pinch of salt

Method:

  • Whisk eg whites with salt till stiff.
  • Fold in sugar,coconut  and essence with a spoon.
  • Cover a baking tray with butter paper/aluminium foil.
  • Place spoonfuls of the batter about 2” apart. You should get 16-20 macaroons.
  • Bake at 180Deg.C for 20-25 mins.
  • Cool and remove from tray.

Source: Nita Mehta’s Bakes and Cakes

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Mandira’s notes: This is absolutely fabulous recipe. It takes literally 5 mins to have it all mixed up and  baking in the oven.  Highly recommended.:D Btw, its nice and coconutty. If you dont like coconut, skip this one..obviously!

19 Comments on “Coconut macaroons

  1. Happy Cook
    March 12, 2009

    I love coconut macroons and these look perfect and delicious.

  2. homecooked
    March 13, 2009

    This looks so good Mandira! I can almost smell the coconut here :) Looks fantastic! The recipe looks so simple….have bookmarked to try it out.

  3. homecooked
    March 13, 2009

    Okay….one more thing. How many macaroons did u get with the above ingredients?

  4. Athisaya Divya
    March 13, 2009

    WIll definitely be trying this recipe. I adore macaroons.

  5. churningthewordmill
    March 13, 2009

    @happy cook-these taste delicious too!

    @HC- smells good na? try it and tell us how it turned out.

    @HC-16-20.

    @athisaya- please do!

  6. Crafty Shines
    March 13, 2009

    mandy mandy mandy…is that bib / large towel ready yet? i can hardly see the alphabets on my keyboard…i think my eyes r drooling too! hugs for posting a quick-fix recipe!!! :D

  7. sushma
    March 13, 2009

    these are my favourie also.

  8. Srivalli
    March 13, 2009

    Looks great mandira…maybe I can expect an eggless one please…:)

  9. churningthewordmill
    March 13, 2009

    @crafty- hv sent across a bib…shud b reaching u soon!;)

    @sushma- ditto!:D

    @srivalli-i wish i knew how to do these without eggs..but u see, im a book-cook. i read, i follow. may be lakshmi can help..(lax, are you listening!?!)

  10. lakshmi
    March 14, 2009

    Don’t think there can be an eggless version for this one – btw is it just me or does the font appear really small in this comment box (as I type that is, not after its been published)

  11. churningthewordmill
    March 14, 2009

    nope…looks fine to me lax…while typing and after publishing both…

  12. Homecooked
    May 15, 2009

    Mandira…the dessicated coconuts…are they sweet? Here I found only sweetened flakes or some such. Is it ok if I make these macaroons with that?

  13. churningthewordmill
    May 15, 2009

    no its not sweet… its the regular nariyal ka bura that we get here.. i sure if u reduce the sugar quantity, u can make do with sweetened coconut..but u will have to use apporximation for how much sugar to reduce depending on how sweet ur coconut is…

  14. Homecooked
    May 16, 2009

    You mean its that khopra ka powder kya? In marathi they call it khopra that is the dried cooconut. Let me check and see if I get that in the Indian store. Otherwise I’ll use the sweetened coconut itself. Thanks Mandira :)

  15. churningthewordmill
    May 16, 2009

    yup..thats wat i used..

  16. homecooked
    September 20, 2009

    Tried this recipe and it turned out super :) Mentioned on my blog too!

  17. monikamanchanda
    March 27, 2010

    man i made this today and they were divine…

    i am thinking of using this as in the blog bite copy cat event :D :D :D

  18. mandira
    March 28, 2010

    go right ahead Mon.. :)

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