Chocolate Kissed Macaroons Cookies
Cookies are an all time favorite and preferred by most people on all occasions. These are becoming popular for bridal showers because of their informal nature. You can serve a variety of cookies especially at tea time for a bridal shower. Most people love chocolate cookies. You can have plenty of variety only in chocolate cookies. Chocolate kissed macaroon cookies are amazing and make a great tea time or even breakfast snack for a bridal shower.
Ingredients
- Softened butter
- 1 pack of soft cream cheese
- 3 cups grated coconut
- 1 egg yolk
- ¾ cup sugar
- 2 teaspoons almond extract
- 2 teaspoons orange juice
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1.5 cups flour
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 5 cups sweetened Coconut Flakes
- 1 bag Hershey's Kisses Milk Chocolates
Method
- Take a bowl and butter, sugar and cream cheese in it. Beat this mixture to mix it well. Add the egg yolk, orange juice and almond extract and mix well. Take a separate bowl and add the flour, baking powder and salt and mix well. Add this to the butter mixture and add 3 cups of coconut to it. Blend it well.
- Wrap the mixture and refrigerate it so that it sets well. You can remove this after an hour. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Knead dough of this mixture, cut it into small pieces and roll them in balls. Roll these balls in some grated coconut. Place these on a greased baking sheet.
- Bake for about 10 to 12 minutes. Remove from the oven. Press the kisses chocolate on each cookie while it is hot. Do this before even removing them from the baking sheet. Now let this cool and place the sheet on a wire rack. Let the cookies cool completely and them in a plate to serve. Your chocolate kissed macaroon cookies are ready to eat.
These cookies are quite a delicacy especially for the ones who like chocolates. There are many other ways in which you can make these. You can use your creativity and cooking skills and come up with your own recipe for these cookies. You can add or modify ingredients as per your preferences. You can serve this to your guests along with tea or coffee or with some other finger food like sandwiches. They would simply love it.
One more way to make these cookies is to skip the kisses chocolate and take some melted chocolate instead.
Ingredients
- 4-5 cups of grated coconut
- egg whites
- cSweetened condensed milk
- Chocolate chips
- Butter
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- Salt
Method
- Preheat the oven to 325 degrees. Take a bowl and mix the condensed milk, vanilla extract and salt. Add the grated coconut.
- Take another bowl. Add the egg whites and beat these well. Pour the egg white mixture into the other mixture and blend it well.
- Take a baking sheet with a parchment paper. Place 2 teaspoons of this mixture in small round shape on this sheet.
- Bake these for 25 minutes. Let the baked cookies cool completely.
- Take some chocolate chips in a bowl and add butter in it. Melt this mixture in the oven. Take out the bowl after every half a minute and stir so that the chocolate does not burn.
- Place a teaspoonful of this ready chocolate dip on the macaroons. You can decorate it with some chocolate or mint holiday sprinkles. These look and taste great.
- These form a thick crust outside and are soft from inside. They are absolutely delicious and your guests would love them. The combination of chocolate and coconut has been an all time favorite with most people. This recipe would be a big hit.
- You can keep these with tea or coffee for just about any occasion.