Orange, chocolate and coconut macaroons

Name: Orange, chocolate and coconut macaroons
Yield: Makes about 20
Ingredients: 50 g/2 oz bar dark chocolate – at least 70% cocoa solids; 1 egg white; crystallised orange peel for decoration, cut into very thin slivers; 2 to 3 teaspoons orange flower water; finely grated zest of 1 orange; 115 g/4 oz/1 cup desiccated coconut; 115 g/4 oz/¾ cup icing sugar

Preparation info

Makes about
20

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

The Floral Baker

By Frances Bissell

Published 2014

About

These are very traditional teatime treats, which are completely unlike the French macarons. Very simple to make, the dark chocolate and the orange flower water turn these into a rather sophisticated little treat.

Ingredients

115 g/4 oz/1 cup desiccated coconut
115

Snack
Dessert
Vegetarian
Gluten-free

Method

Mix the coconut and sugar, add the orange flower water and enough egg white to bind together in a firm paste. Use a pair of dessertspoons, dipped in water, to shape neat oval lozenges. Place them on a baking sheet, lined with rice paper and bake in a preheated oven at 160°C/325°F/gas mark 3 for about