Recipe: Coconut Macaroons

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Alton Brown's Toasty Coconut Macaroons Recipe
Cook time: 20 minutes
Yield: about 40 cookies

Ingredients

• 4 large egg whites
• Pinch salt
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 1 (8-ounce) package sweetened shredded coconut, lightly toasted

Directions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. In a mixer fitted with a whip attachment. whip egg whites and salt until they become white and begin to stiffen. Add sugar in 3 parts. Continue to whip until the egg whites are very stiff. Using a rubber spatula fold in toasted coconut.

On parchment lined cookie sheets, drop a teaspoon of the mixture leaving 1 to 2 inches around each cookie. Place into the oven and bake for 15 to 20 minutes. The outside should be golden brown but the insides should still be moist.

Coconut Macaroons (Recipe from Allrecipes.com)

Ingredients:

1 1/3 cups flaked coconut 1/3 cup sugar 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour

1/8 teaspoon salt 2 egg whites 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract

Directions:

1.	In a small bowl, combine the coconut, sugar, flour and salt. Stir in egg whites and vanilla; mix well.
2.	Drop by rounded teaspoonfuls onto greased baking sheets. Bake at 325 degrees F for 18-20 minutes or until golden brown. Cool on a wire rack.