Best Chewy Macaroons Recipes

CHEWY COCONUT MACAROONS

Steps:

• In a bowl, toss the coconut, flour and salt. Stir in milk and extract until blended (mixture will be thick and sticky)., Drop by level tablespoonfuls 3 in. apart onto lightly greased baking sheets. Bake at 300° just until golden brown, 18-22 minutes. Cool for 2 minutes before removing from pans to wire racks.

CHEWY COCONUT MACAROONS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line baking sheet with parchment paper (or coat generously with nonstick cooking spray).
• In a large bowl, whisk together egg whites, sugar, and salt until frothy. With a fork, stir in coconut until moistened.
• Drop mixture by packed level tablespoons onto prepared sheet (cookies will not spread). Bake until lightly golden, 25 to 30 minutes.

CHEWY MACAROONS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325.
• Combine coconut, flour and salt.
• Stir in vanilla and milk.
• Drop from a tablespoon onto a greased cookie sheet.
• Bake for 13 minutes or until golden brown.

CHEWY ALMOND COOKIES (MACAROONS)

Steps:

• Process almonds in a food processor 9 minutes or until a paste forms, stopping to scrape down sides.
• Beat egg whites at medium speed with an electric mixer until stiff peaks form.
• Combine almond paste, sugar, cardamom and cinnamon in a bowl, mixing with hands until blended.
• Add egg whites; knead by hand until smooth and doughlike consistency.
• Wet fingers with water, and shape dough into 1-inch balls (about 1 tablespoon dough for each cookie).
• Slightly flatten with thumb.
• Place cookies on a parchment-lined baking sheet.
• Top each with almond sliver pressed in lightly.
• Bake on middle rack of oven at 325° for 15-20 minutes or until bottoms are lightly browned.
• Remove cookies immediately to wire racks; cool.

CHEWY MACAROONS

Steps:

• In a small bowl, beat egg whites, vanilla and salt on medium speed until soft peaks form. Gradually add sugar, 1 tablespoon at time, beating until stiff peaks form. Fold in coconut. , Drop by tablespoonfuls 2 in. apart onto well-greased baking sheets. Bake at 300° for 25 minutes or just until golden brown. Immediately remove to wire racks.

3 INGREDIENT CHEWY MACAROONS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325 degrees.
• Line cookie sheet with parchment paper. Do not just grease sheet as they will stick. Yes, that is experience. lol.
• Mix all ingredients together until well combined.
• Depending on the size you make them, either use a spoon or an ice cream scoop, and place on sheets.
• Bake for 10 - 12 minutes.
• When baked, transfer to cooling racks.
• These freeze wonderfully.

SOFT AND CHEWY COCONUT MACAROONS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350.
• In an electric mixer using the whisk attachment, beat egg whites and vanilla until really stiff peaks form.
• Gradually add confectioners' sugar and mix well.
• Using a rubber spatula, gently fold in coconut and flour until blended.
• Drop from a teaspoon on to a parchment lined cookie sheet (yes for this recipe you should use it) make sure you space the cookies 2 inches apart.
• Bake for 10-12 minutes, or until lightly browned. Remove cookie sheet and allow cookies to cool on it. When fully cool, carefully remove cookies using metal spatula and store in airtight container to stay soft.
• You can drizzle a little melted chocolate on them if you like, just be sure to allow the chocolate to completely dry before storing.

CHEWY ALMOND MACAROONS

Steps:

• In a food processor grind fine the whole almonds with the sugar, the almond extract, and the salt. In a bowl beat the whites until they are foamy (just before they hold soft peaks) and fold in the almond mixture gently but thoroughly. Line a large baking sheet with parchment paper and butter the parchment. Transfer the batter to a pastry bag fitted with a 1/2-inch plain tip, pipe 1-inch mounds onto the parchment, 2 inches apart, and sprinkle them with the sliced almonds. Bake the macaroons in the middle of a preheated 300°F. oven for 15 to 20 minutes, or until they are golden around the edges, and let them cool on the parchment. Peel the macaroons from the parchment and store them in an airtight container.

OLD-FASHIONED CHEWY MACAROONS

Steps:

• 1. Line 2 cookie sheets with parchment paper. Preheat your ovens to 375oF. 2.In the bowl of a standing mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, beat together the almond paste and half the granulated sugar on low speed for about 3 or 4 minutes, until the almond paste is reduced to fine crumbs. Add the remaining 3/8 cup sugar, the confectioners' sugar, the cake flour, and the salt and continue to beat another 2-3 minutes. 3. Whisk the egg whites slightly to make them break up, then with the mixer still on low speed, beat in about a quarter of them. As soon as the first quantity of egg white is absorbed, add more, and continue until all the egg white has been added and the macaroon paste is smooth and sticking to the bottom of the bowl. But the second it reaches that state, turn off the mixer. If beaten for too long, the macaroons will puff and sink in the oven. 4. Because the macaroon paste is firm and difficult to pipe, only put a little at a time into a pastry bag fitted with a 1/2-inch plain tube (Ateco #806). Pipe out 1-inch spheres onto the prepared pans and continue to add macaroon paste to the bag until all the cookies have been piped. 5. Fold a clean flat-weave kitchen towel the long way into a strip about 2 inches wide. Fill a small bowl with water. Wet the cloth and wring it out only slightly, so that some water is still dripping. Hold one end of the strip in each hand and drop the wet cloth onto the piped macaroons to flatten and moisten them. Repeat until all the macaroons have been moistened. 6. Sprinkle the moistened surfaces with granulated sugar and bake them immediately. 7. Bake the macaroons for about 12 minutes, or until they are golden and firm on the outside, but still soft within. 8. Cool the macaroons on the pans on racks. 9. Store the macaroons between sheets of parchment paper in a tin or plastic container with a tight-fitting lid.

CHEWY CHOCOLATE-COCONUT MACAROONS

Steps:

• 1. Preheat oven to 250 degrees. 2. Line a large baking sheet with parchment paper, and secure with masking tape. 3. Place unsweetened chocolate in a small microwave-safe bowl. Microwave at HIGH for 1 minute or until almost melted. Remove from microwave; stir until chocolate is completely melted. 4. Spoon flour into a dry measuring cup; level with a knife. Combine cake flour, unsweetened cocoa, and salt in a large bowl. Add coconut, and toss well. Stir in melted chocolate, vanilla extract, and sweetened condensed milk (the mixture will be stiff). Drop by level tablespoons 2 inches apart onto prepared baking sheet. Bake at 250 deg for 45 minutes or until edges of cookies are soft, rotating baking sheet once during baking time. Remove from oven, and cool 10 minutes on a pan on a wire rack. Remove the cookies from the parchment paper, and cool completely on rack. Store in an airtight container.

COCONUT CHEWY MACAROONS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325 degrees F.
• combine and heat evaporated milk, sugar, and butter in microwave until butter is completely melted.
• stir in vanilla and almond extracts.
• In a separate bowl, combine coconut and flour.
• Fold wet mixture into dry until combined.
• Drop by spoonfuls on a greased cookie sheet.
• Bake 10-13 minutes, until tops are golden brown.
• Cool on wire rack.
• melt chocolate chips and use to dip the bottoms of the cookies.
• Enjoy!

CRUNCHY, CHEWY FLAX & ALMOND MACAROONS (EGG-FREE)

Steps:

• Whisk the first two ingredients together in a bowl and let stand at least 2-3 minutes before use.
• Using a hand mixer, beat the sugar & 5 T. hot water together in a large bowl for 2-3 minutes (to allow some of the sugar to "melt").
• Gradually add the flax mixture and all the rest of the ingredients. Mix well.
• If making as biscotti or chewy bars, grease and flour an 8x11" baking tin (as per kokeshi doll below) or a 10" round springform pan before adding the dough. Bake at 350F for 40 minutes. Remove promptly to a wire rack.
• If making as cookies or macaroons, grease and flour a cookie sheet before placing 1" balls of dough approximately 1 1/2 inches apart. Bake at 350F for 25-30 minutes. Remove promptly to a wire rack.
• NB If you want these to be chewy, do not allow them to brown at the edges. Otherwise they will be as hard as hockey pucks!
• PS I preferred using my Bosch Kitchen Machine (the large bowl & dough hooks) to a hand mixer for this heavy batter.

CHEWY COCONUT MACAROONS

Steps:

• In a bowl toss together the coconut, flour, and salt. Stir in sweetened condensed milk and almond extract until blended.
• Drop by rounded teaspoonfuls 3in apart on bakins sheets lightly coated with cooking spray.
• Bake 300 for 18-22min until edges are lightly browned. Cool for 2 mins before removing, cool on wire rack.

CHEWY CHOCOLATE MACAROONS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
• Combine all ingredients and mix well.
• Drop from teaspoon, 1 inch apart, onto well-greased baking sheets.
• Bake at 350 degrees F, for 10 to 12 minutes.
• Remove immediately from baking sheets.
• Makes 8 dozen.
• Note: the vanilla can be substituted with almond extract.
• Source: Moyn, at Gail's Recipe Swap.

CHEWY ORANGE MACAROONS

Steps:

• Line a large baking sheet with parchment paper.
• Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• In your mixer bowl and using the whip beater ( balloon whisk).
• beat the whole egg until thick and light.
• Add in the sugar gradually a little at a time.
• Add the vanilla and orange zest.
• Beat until thick light and fluffy.
• Remove bowl, and fold in the coconut.
• Drop heaping teaspoonfuls onto the parchment making high mounds, and space about 1 1/2 inches apart.
• Bake 15 minutes.
• Turn off heat.
• Leave in the oven for 10 more minutes, letting them dry more.
• Remove and let completely cool.
• Store in a tin container airtight.