Best Ever Macaroons
- 2 egg whites
- 12 cup sugar
- 3 tablespoons honey
- 1 teaspoon almond extract
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 13 cup unbleached flour (at Passover potato starch or matzo cake meal can be substitued in equal quantity for the flour)
- 3 cups unsweetened dried shredded coconut (If you can only find sweetened coconut, reduce the sugar in the recipe to 1/4 cup)
- preheat oven to 375F degrees.
- Beat egg whites until starting to expand but still soft.
- Add sugar, honey, and extracts.
- Beat at high speed until very stiff peaks form, about 8-10 minutes.
- Fold in flour and coconut by hand.
- Drop on well buttered baking sheets by heaping teaspoonfuls, or use a pastry bag with a#2 star tip.
- Bake at 375 degrees F for about 10 minutes or until golden.
- Variations------------------.
- (a) For cocomacs, add 1 additional tablespoon of honey to egg white.
- Then fold in 1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa with the flour.
- (b) Dip the bottom of cooled macaroons in melted semisweet chocolate, drying upside down on a rack.
- (c) Sandwich two dipped macaroons together to make a "macwich".
egg whites, sugar, honey, almond, vanilla, flour, coconut
Taken from www.food.com/recipe/best-ever-macaroons-16225 (may not work)