This week’s Tuesdays with Dorie recipe from Dorie’s Cookies is a riff on a macaroon. With just four ingredients in the cookie these can be whipped up in no time which is kind of dangerous considering how delicious they are!
Dorie says:
I first made these as a Passover dessert and they were just right: free of wheat and leavening, as foods for Passover must be, and familiar as a play on the popular-for-Passover coconut macaroon. And then, after Passover ended, I kept the recipe on the top of the pile to make for friends who were on gluten-free diets. Finally, I made them often, for no reason at all except a craving for something delicious.
With almonds, coconut, sugar and egg whites as the ingredients and the fact that they are made in a food processor, they come together in literally 5 minutes. The only slightly tricky part it rolling the dough in your hands to form the dough balls and then pressing an indent into the centre – the cookies will crack, Dorie tells you, but they will also not necessarily remain perfectly round. No matter, they taste great!
Dorie tells you that you can use blanched or unblanched almonds and I used blanched as that’s what I had on hand. On closer inspection, her cookies in the book appear to have been made with unblanched almonds as you can see specks of skin which I think is really pretty and prettier than the pale version I made. In fact, I baked mine an extra 4 minutes (20 minutes total) to get any kind of colour on top of mine. They were still a bit gooey in the centre so I don’t think it did any harm but I’d definitely use unblanched almonds next time around!
I made 1/3 of a batch for 10 cookies and am glad I didn’t make more because they disappeared VERY quickly. VERY more-ish!
Get the recipe for Dorie Greenspan’s Coco-Almond Thumbprints from Dorie’s Cookies on p 288 of Dorie’s Cookies!
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Oh, I love the color of yours…I was so unsure about that part…the rest of the recipe was the easiest ever. Yours look wonderful, and what a fun photo with that little bowl of chocolate sitting there.
I love the new phrase…very more-ish haha! I think these are a hit with anyone who loves coconut…it sure was with my group!!
Gorgeous picture! We loved these and I will be making them again.
Beautiful as always! I think I got 13 cookies. They were easy!
I’d like to pop one of those in my mouth– that shiny chocolate is calling to me! Do you think I can use the unsweetened coconut when I make them (I’d have to buy a bag of the sweet stuff), or would it make them too dry?
Your cookies look super cute. Mine were a bit rougher, but I still enjoyed them.
Ooh, I’m looking forward to these!