Alice Medrich's New Classic Coconut Macaroons

Name: Alice Medrich's New Classic Coconut Macaroons
Cuisine: Israeli
Ingredients: 4 large egg whites; 3 1/2 cups unsweetened dried flaked, not shredded, coconut (also known as coconut chips) or 3 cups sweetened, dried shredded coconut; 3/4 cup sugar; 2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract (available kosher for Passover, or can be omitted); Slightly rounded 1/4 teaspoon salt

Instructions

Alice Medrich, chocolatier and author of scads of baking cookbooks, is famously a little wild with her desserts. She developed this recipe not with the standard bag of sweetened, angel flake coconut in mind, but those wide, sloping unsweetened shavings, often called coconut chips and sold at health food stores nowadays. Naturally, Medrich offers two even more exotic upgrades: 1) Instead of painting a little chocolate shoe on the bottom of each macaroon, why not jam a piece of chocolate in each still-hot cookie and watch it melt? 2) For that matter, why not lace it with lime zest and shower it with cinnamon? Who are we to say that's not a macaroon? Adapted very slightly from Chewy Gooey Crispy Crunchy Melt-in-Your-Mouth Cookies by Alice Medrich (Artisan, 2010)

Updated at: Mon, 18 Aug 2025 04:04:52 GMT