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Preparation info
  • Yield

    3½ dozen

    • Difficulty

      Medium

Appears in

By Emily Luchetti

Published 1993

  • About

You can vary the taste of macaroons by the kind of honey you use.

California wild flower honey, French lavender honey, or an Australian blue gum honey produce equally good but quite different results.

Ingredients

  • 1 cup egg whites
  • cups sugar
  • 2 tablespoons

Method

Whisk together the egg whites, sugar, honey, and vanilla extract in a large stainless steel mixing bowl.

Put the bowl over a pot of simmering water. Whisking occasionally, heat the mixture to the temperature of warm bath water.

Remove the bowl from the heat and fold in the coconut and the flour.

Refrigerate the dough until firm and mold it into