COCONUT MERINGUE DROPS

Holiday cookies with coconut and almonds

Coconut and almonds give this cookie a distinctive flavor.

Ingredients

(5 dozen)

Procedure

  1. Preheat oven to 150C In large bowl use an electric mixer to beat the egg whites until stiff peaks form.
  2. Gradually beat in sugar. Add vanilla.
  3. With a rubber spatula gently fold in coconut.
  4. Drop by rounded tspfuls onto greased, floured cookie sheets. Press an almond in center of each cookie.
  5. Bake at 150C for 20 to 25 minutes.
  6. Remove to racks to cool.

Notes

It is a lot of work to beat the egg whites enough without an electric mixer.

For me the almonds are required.

This cookie must be handled a little more carefully than most as it forms a white shell which causes it to be slightly delicate.

Rating


Difficulty: Easy.
Time: 20 minutes preparation, 30 minutes baking and cooling.
Precision: Approximate measurement OK.

Contributor

 
Iris Niswander 
AT&T Bell Laboratories, Columbus, Ohio, USA 
{cbosgd,cbatt}!cbdkc1!iln 
 
Recipe last modified: 16 Dec 86

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Date: Wed, 28 Jan 87 08:38:29 PST
From: iln@cbdkc1.uucp (Iris Niswander)
Newsgroups: mod.recipes
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Subject: RECIPE: Coconut meringue drops
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Columbus, Ohio, USA

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