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🍽️ Crunchy Coconut Macaroons with Chocolate Decoration

385 kcal · 30 min · 4 servings

Ingredients

• 100 g Marzipan base
• 1 Egg white
• 100 g Coconut flakes
• 50 g Sugar
• 1 Pinch Salt
• Lemon (juice)
• 2 tsp Lemon zest
• Ghee (for the baking sheet)
• Couverture (50 g each white and dark)

Instructions

1. 1. Preheat the oven to 160 degrees Celsius.
2. 2. Grease a baking sheet with ghee.
3. 3. Whip the egg whites until stiff.
4. 4. Add salt, sugar, lemon juice, and lemon zest gradually.
5. 5. Continue stirring until the egg whites are very stiff.
6. 6. Finely crush the marzipan paste.
7. 7. Mix the crushed marzipan with the coconut flakes.
8. 8. Gently fold the coconut-marzipan mixture into the egg whites.
9. 9. Moisten two teaspoons with water.
10. 10. Scoop small mounds of the mixture.
11. 11. Place the mounds on the sheet with some space between them.
12. 12. Bake the macaroons on the middle rack for approx. 25 minutes.
13. 13. Remove the macaroons from the oven.
14. 14. Let them cool down completely.
15. 15. Crush the coating chocolate for the decoration.
16. 16. Melt the coating chocolate separately in a water bath.
17. 17. Fill the melted coating chocolate into small freezer bags.
18. 18. Cut off a small tip from the corner of the bag.
19. 19. Decorate the cooled macaroons in a spiral pattern with the chocolate.

Nutrition per serving

• kcal: 385
• Protein: 4 g · Fett/Fat: 25 g · Carbs: 36 g