{"id":18445,"date":"2012-01-02T13:49:17","date_gmt":"2012-01-02T19:49:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/?p=18445"},"modified":"2012-01-02T15:24:19","modified_gmt":"2012-01-02T21:24:19","slug":"coconut-macaroons-low-carb-and-regular","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/2012\/coconut-macaroons-low-carb-and-regular\/","title":{"rendered":"Coconut Macaroons: Low Carb and Regular"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nAndrew asked if the Macaroons were easy enough for a non-cook bachelor to prepare. The answer is: YES!<\/b> (Provided you are willing to watch to make sure they don’t burn.)<\/p>\n

This recipe makes approximately 2 dozen coconut Macaroons. They are very easy to make. I think they are even Kosher; I know they are gluten free. I adapted this from the recipe on the back of the Ziyad coconut, which is a very finely grated unsweetened coconut. I found it a bit difficult to form balls, so my version has a little more egg white and a little water. The point of the tweak was to make the dough hold together better. I also added vanilla. The Greek section of my grocery store has dry vanillin, and I now prefer that, but you can use vanilla extract. <\/p>\n

This recipe is hard to screw up. The two ways you could screw up are a) burning the cookies or b) trying too hard to make them perfect. Do not try to roll these into perfect balls. You will just get frustrated. Just squeeze them into mash them into shape with clean hands or if you are skilled with spoons, I guess you could try to shape them that way.<\/p>\n

Recipe:<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Collect together your ingredients.<\/p>\n

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  1. 2 C. unsweetened coconut. <\/li>\n
  2. 6 T. Sugar or Sugar Substitute (See note.)<\/li>\n
  3. 1\/4 t. vanilla or vanillin. (optional)<\/li>\n
  4. Whites from 4 USDA large eggs<\/li>\n
  5. 1T water if coconut is dry.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Steps:<\/p>\n

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    1. Preheat oven to 375F. Place racks in the middle positions of oven.<\/li>\n
    2. Spray two cookie sheets with Pam or similar spray oil. Be generous.<\/li>\n
    3. Wash your hands. <\/li>\n
    4. Place all dry ingredients in one large bowl. Stir.<\/li>\n
    5. Add water to egg whites. Add all wet ingredients. Whip a little with a fork. <\/li>\n
    6. Stir wet ingredients into dry ingredients and stir to blend. Using your clean hands, see if you can pack the mixture into a ball. If not, add another tablespoon of water and stir.<\/li>\n
    7. Scoop out about 1\/2 T of cookie dough and, using your hands pack into a roughly spherical ball. Place on cookie sheet. Repeat until you have use up all the dough.<\/li>\n
    8. Make sure oven has reached 375F. It it hasn’t wait<\/i>. You want to minimize the amount of time the heating elements turns on while cooking.<\/li>\n
    9. After oven has reached 375F, place cookie sheets on oven racks. Turn oven down to 350F.<\/em><\/li>\n
    10. If your oven temperature is right, the cookies are supposed<\/i> to take about 10 minutes to cook. For a variety of reasons, cookies are unpredictable. Set timer to 6<\/strong> minutes. When timer rings, check the cookies. If they aren’t brown yet, set timer for another 2-4 minutes. (How long depends on how brown they were). When cookies are nicely browned, remove from oven. (My examples are on the pale side of done. )<\/li>\n
    11. Allow cookies to cool on sheets. Remove gently<\/i> from sheets. Eat.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      Note: these cookies are very tender and delicate. Unless you are very gentle, you will break some as you remove them from the cookie sheet. Just eat those. \ud83d\ude42 <\/p>\n

      Note:<\/b> For low carb version you will need a sugar substitute that mimics the bulk and browning properties of sugar. I recommend 4T Truvia + 2T Poly D fiber + ( 6 drops of from the 2oz bottle of EZ Sweet or<\/i> 3 packets of Splenda) . Truvia is available at grocery stores and whole foods; it’s a sugar substitute the maintains bulk when you cook. Poly D isn’t really a sweetener, but it replaces the browning ability you lose when you eliminate sugar. The EZsweet is liquid sucralose; Splenda is dry sucralose with some filler. To find the PolyD or EZsweet visit: Netrition<\/a>.) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      Andrew asked if the Macaroons were easy enough for a non-cook bachelor to prepare. The answer is: YES! (Provided you are willing to watch to make sure they don’t burn.) This recipe makes approximately 2 dozen coconut Macaroons. They are very easy to make. I think they are even Kosher; I know they are gluten … Continue reading Coconut Macaroons: Low Carb and Regular<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[361,413],"class_list":["post-18445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random","tag-food","tag-low-carb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18445\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}