Chocolate Macaroons

With Irma Cohen

This one of the many recipes in “Our Best Recipes,” the cookbook published by the Temple Ahavat Achim. The book was assembled and edited by Irma Cohen and Connie Ross. This recipe, that Irma shows Heather Atwood how to make in a video, was submitted by one of the Temple’s members, Faith Glickman Rossi.

The cookies are very light since the egg whites are beaten into a marshmallow fluff consistency before adding the chocolate and coconut.

Ingredients

Chocolate Macaroons
(recipe from Faith Glickman Rossi)

4 ounces semi-sweet chocolate
2 ounces unsweetened chocolate
2 large egg whites
1/2 cup sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 cups unsweetened coconut, shredded

Instructions

Preheat oven to 375 degrees. 

1. Line or lightly grease two cookie sheets. 
2. Melt both chocolates in the top of a double boiler placed over simmering water, then let chocolate cool to tepid.
3. Beat egg whites until frothy, about 30 seconds on medium-high speed. Gradually add sugar and continue beating until the mixture is the consistency of marshmallow fluff, about 30 seconds. 
4. Blend in vanilla, and then fold in the melted chocolate and then the coconut.
5. Drop rounded tablespoons of the dough about 1 1/2 inches apart onto the greased cookie sheet.
6. Bake for 12 minutes or until the cookies form a light crust.  Cool on cookie sheet a few minutes, and then place on wire cooling rack.  Makes 18.

Recipe courtesy of “Our Best Recipes” Temple Ahavat Achim Cookbook, 2010. The cookbook is still available and can be purchased at The Bookstore in Gloucester.

Irma is Co-Author and Co-Editor along with Connie Ross, "Our Best Recipes," produced by Temple Ahavat Achim, Gloucester, MA. Irma, like many others, always thought it would be a good idea to create a cookbook of treasured and traditional Jewish recipes for all to share. Everyone is always asking for recipes anyway, she reasoned. "We all think of ideas," said Cohen. "But these meals are so spectacular and I thought we've got to share these recipes. "After we eat, we always say 'isn't that a great recipe?' One day I said to my friend, we've got to make a cookbook. "It's not so easy to do," she conceded. "It took about a year to get everybody's recipe. But we're excited with the result."

When Cohen, a retired occupational therapist, raised the idea, Connie Ross immediately offered to help. The duo became the co-authors and co-editors of the book, which contains 290 recipes in its 160 pages.