Coconut Macaroons

These cookies, which fall somewhere between a fancy cookie and a simple pastry, may be too labor-intensive for some operations. But semantics aside, you can make a simplified version by omitting the short dough bottom and piping the batter directly onto paper-lined sheet pans, either in a star shape, as specified, or in small rosettes using a No. 6 (12-mm) star tip. In that case, also omit dipping the baked cookies in chocolate. Coconut macaroons taste best when they are freshly baked and s