COCONUT MACAROONS – Bonita’s Kitchen

Welcome to Bonita’s Kitchen! Today we will be making COCONUT MACAROONS. These tasty little coconut treats are made with a few simple ingredient’s and make a lovely cookie for your high tea party. See Recipe Below!!!

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Ingredients:
4½ cups unsweetened shredded coconut 2/3 cup all-purpose flour
1 tsp vanilla extract 1 tsp almond extract
1(14oz) can sweetened condensed milk ¼ tsp sea salt

Method:
Preheat oven to 350ºF – Bake Time 12 to 15 minutes – Two cookie sheets with parchment paper
Measure ingredient’s and open can before you start.

In a large bowl, toss in coconut, flour and sea salt toss until coated. Then pour in sweetened condensed milk and both extracts.
With a spoon or spatular mix all ingredient’s together until all combined.

Then scoop heaping tablespoons of mixture and put on your prepared pans, leaving them around 1” to 2” apart.
After place in the preheated oven on the middle rack and bake, until golden brown or around 12 to 15 minutes.

When ready remove from oven and let come to total room temperature before eating, mixture will be hot and can burn your mouth.
(OPTIONAL)
Melt some unsweetened chocolate or chocolate chips to dip the bottom of the coconut macaroons on. Flip over so chocolate cools.

Bonita’s Tips:
Using unsweetened shredded coconut cuts down on the amount of sugar in this recipe.
Having a pinch of sea salt gives it a nice blend of sweet and salty.
Using unsweetened chocolate also removes the amount of sugar added to this recipe. (optional)

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hi and welcome to B’s kitchen and thank you for joining us I’m excited to share with you today this simple cooking recipe for coconut macaroons these are so tasty and of course only a few simple ingredients and just a short W to bake them but if these interest you stick around and let’s get [Music] started k [Music] so what we’ll do we’ll pour everything into my kitchen aler now 4 and 1/2 cups of unsweetened shredded coconut and it’s going to be 2/3 of allpurpose flour or flour of choice toss it in there and A4 of a teaspoon full of sea salt or table salt so now I’m just going to whisk this around just to blend it together and then I’ll show you what’s next all right so that’s good um now what we’re going to be pouring in there is one can of sweet and condensed milk and that’s 300 Ms so I’m just going to pour this on in my mixer and now after we’re going to be putting in one teaspoon full of of vanilla and 1 teaspoon full of almond uh extract and we’ll mix that together so just mix it just for a couple of uh minutes there just incorporate all of those ingredients now you can also do this with your wooden spoon or your spatula just uh fold it all together but I just got my little helper here sometimes I would say well probably I’ll use Raymond as My Little Helper but I’m very busy on this side he’s busy and not only busy he’ll be picking at it and we probably won’t have none to show so that’s all we need to do there so now let me tell you what to do next so pretty much that’s all you need to do with that I’m just making sure all of the ingredients now is together just by folding it with my spatula so all all you need to do get yourself a scoop or just a spoon and get about a tablespoon full of this mixture and just put out onto um a cookie sheet with some parchment paper and have it about an inch to 2 in apart um so probably three across would be more than enough and do this until and make them almost the same I might have one there a little bit bigger that’s the one I’ll have you’ll have that one and that way uh they’ll all get the same baking time of course so let me just finish this and I’ll tell you how long to bake it for tell you this is a great one if you got the grandkids around or just kids or Just family time family time you know and you’re just looking for that little little simple treat day Raymond and you want to to have something time to Y spend with your family for sure yep perfect so now what we need to do is preheat our oven to 350° F and then we’re going to when it’s ready put this in the center rack in the middle for anywhere from 12 to 15 minutes or till a nice golden brown you decide what works for you I’m going to put mine in the oven now and I’ll show you what they look like when they come out our coconut macaroons are baked now let’s take them to my counter and show you what they look like oh my gosh these coconut macaroons smells amazing now I got some dark chocolate air melted and I just melted it for 30 seconds or so in the microwave I’m going to show you that we’re going to dip these into that we’re getting ready for some it te air today with this decorative cookie so good come in closer so as you can see this is a nice dark chocolate it’s unsweetened and these cookies oh my gosh just look they’re golden brown we’re going to dip just the bottom just like this a little tip them over like that to get them to Arden first before you um well of course we all know before you put them down and before you start eating yes just just a light little dipping now you don’t need to do this the sweetness of the coconut macaroons where we put the con sweet and condensed milk and the bitterness of the dark chocolate oh my gosh you’re just going to love these I’m going to continue dipping them and then I’m going to have one and I’m going to have two can you see yourself today making these and inviting some friends over or family members like your kids having a party I know I I’m not going to eat all of these today I know Raymond will put a good crack at them and try to eat all of them don’t tell them too many Secrets but I’m going to share the recipe with you simple ingredients most of it we got in our home so again that’s going to be shared down under this video and I’m going to pour myself a cup of tea and add a little taste of this today oh my gosh one of many I’m sure I got to show you my uh uh little pad that my sister knit me she’s actually making quilts and so much more with these little squares but she gave me one to put under my teapot so thank you Pauline for that she’s not only been a guest here on B’s kitchen previously um perfect Chef she know go out to crochet in it God love her I’m going to have a little taste oh my good delicious drop the the coconut macaroni delicious I was waiting for you to figure out which one I was going to do the chocolate one but he not sat yet and I don’t want it all over my face oh my good if you like coconut you’re going to love these they make about 30 you can have them smaller if you want to make a little more leave them in for 15 minutes or to 12 to 15 minutes the second batch maybe a little less because the oven is nice and hot but other than that too good eat so if you’re looking for some cookies for our it te party today this is it your guests love it again uh if you can’t find a recipe in under this this video send me a message at Bon thekitchen gmail.com stop by on our Facebook page or on our website www. Bonitas kit.com so I’m not going to take any more of your time we certainly know it’s Precious on behalf of myself Raymond me and our team thank you for joining us and from our kitchen to yours you have a Wonder wonderful day and yours need his [Music] kitchen yours and don’t forget to join us again on Bon’s kitchen