Recipe: Perfect Coconut Macaroon s with a Chocolate Center

Coconut Macaroon s with a Chocolate Center. Great recipe for Coconut Macaroon s with a Chocolate Center. A light coconut macaroon, not overly sweet with a toasted exterior and moist inside. The middle holds a chocolte kiss for a burst of chocolte/coconut flavor! Add coconut and vanilla; stir until blended. Immediately remove from cookie sheet to wire rack. (Macaroons will stick if allowed to cool on cookie sheet.) Cool.

Condensed milk and tempered chocolate are Chef John's secrets to moist, tender, chewy coconut macaroons that are easy to make and bring to potlucks. Set a macaroon on top of each chocolate cookie "nest". Now there are three cookie layers. You can cook Coconut Macaroon s with a Chocolate Center using 8 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Coconut Macaroon s with a Chocolate Center

1. Prepare 2 2/3 cup of sweetened flaked coconut.
2. It's 3 tablespoon of granulated sugar.
3. You need 1/4 teaspoon of salt.
4. You need 1/4 cup of all purpose flour.
5. Prepare 4 of large egg whites.
6. It's 1 of teas vanilla extract.
7. Prepare 1/4 teaspoon of almond extract.
8. It's of about 15 hershey kiss chocolate candies, milk or dark chocolate.

Spread and flatten the dough, so that the macaroon is completely covered. In bowl, mix together coconut, egg whites and extract. With mixer on low, feed in confectioners' sugar. Form into balls and line up on nonstick or parchment lined.

Coconut Macaroon s with a Chocolate Center instructions

1. Preheat the oven to 350. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
2. In a bowl mix coconut, flour, sugar and salt.
3. In another bowl whisk egg whites and both extracts until foamy.
4. Add coconut mixture to whites and combine with a fork.
5. Drop in rounded 1 1/2 tablespoons on to prepared pans. Bake for 17 to 20 minutes until lightly browned.
6. Immediately gently but firmly press a Hershey kiss in center of each cookie. Cool on wire racks.
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Top with coconut mixture; spread with the remaining batter. Stir together coconut, sweetened condensed milk, flour and almond extract in large bowl. Mold each portion coconut mixture around chocolate piece covering completely; shape into ball. These Chocolate Kissed Coconut Macaroons are a spinoff combining classic macaroons and blossom cookies. The simple cookie dough for these cookies bakes slightly chewy on the inside with a crisp toasted coconut exterior.