Easy Chocolate Macaroons

My Easy Chocolate Macaroons Recipe mixes up in five minutes flat. They are easy enough for the kids to help and delicious enough to please the pickiest palates.

These have triple the chocolate with cocoa powder, chocolate chips, and a chocolate drizzle. It’s pretty easy to make Chocolate Macaroons Gluten Free since their main ingredient is coconut. Add a little coconut milk, sweetener, and some eggs as a binder and you are good to go.

Macaroons vs Macarons – What is the difference?

I’ll never forget the first time I tasted a macaron. It was crunchy and delicate with chocolate ganache. It wasn’t even called a macaron it was a Nicolette cookie or something like that. And it was .75 in the Wegman’s bakery department. That was before the macaron crazy started. Now they are everywhere. Macarons are small sandwich cookies made out of almond flour, egg whites, and sugar with a flavored filling. They are delicious but all my attempts at converting them to low carb have failed. I think they are one of the few recipes that really do need white cane sugar.

Macaroons are quite different. They are coconut-based and chewy. They are equally delicious but with more of a homemade comfort food taste than a fancy French bakery taste. And they are a heck of a lot easier to make. You can’t make macarons if it is too humid or too hot or if you don’t have hours upon hours to spend on them. These macaroons are easy enough for kids to make in any sort of weather.

How to make Chocolate Macaroons

Macaroons are one of the easiest cookies to make. You really just need to stir the ingredients together, scoop them onto a tray, and then bake them.

What chocolate should I use?

Make sure to use chocolate you like! If you find 85% dark chocolate bitter and unpalatable use sugar-free milk chocolate instead.

I hope you enjoy this Easy Chocolate Macaroons Recipe! For a slightly less chocolatey version try my Chocolate Chip Coconut Macaroons!

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Easy Chocolate Macaroons

My Easy Chocolate Macaroons Recipe mixes up in five minutes flat. They are easy enough for the kids to help and delicious enough to please the pickiest palates.

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Prep Time: 5 minutes

Cook Time: 35 minutes

Total Time: 40 minutes

Course: Dessert

Cuisine: American

Servings: 24

Calories: 128kcal

Author: Taryn

Ingredients

• 8 oz finely shredded coconut this is equal to 2 1/2 cups
• 13.5 oz coconut milk full fat canned
• 1 cup sugar free chocolate chips
• 2 eggs
• 1/2 cup Trim Healthy Mama Gentle Sweet
• 1/4 cup cocoa powder

Chocolate Drizzle:

• 2 tbsp sugar free chocolate chips
• 1/2 tsp coconut oil

Instructions

• Preheat oven to 350.
• Mix together all the ingredients until well combined. Drop 24 heaping tablespoons onto 2 cookie sheets.
• Bake for 25-35 minutes or until the edges are golden and the cookies are slightly firm to the touch.
• Melt the chocolate chips and coconut oil in the microwave stirring every 20 seconds. When they are mostly melted stop and just stir until smooth. Drizzle over the cooled cookies.

Notes

***if your coconut milk is cold enough that it has separated warm it and whisk it together first

Notes on Sweeteners: 

I use my own blend of xylitol, erythritol, and stevia in my recipes. This is twice as sweet as sugar. It is comparable to Trim Healthy Mama Gentle Sweet and Truvia.

To sub in Swerve or Lakanto Monk Fruit use 1.5 times the amount of sweetener called for. 

 

To sub in Pyure or Trim Healthy Mama Super Sweet use half the amount of sweetener called for.

 

Substitutions will work in most recipes. They may not work in candies, such as caramel.

Nutrition

Calories: 128kcal | Carbohydrates: 4g | Protein: 2g | Fat: 12g | Saturated Fat: 10g | Cholesterol: 13mg | Sodium: 12mg | Potassium: 150mg | Fiber: 2g | Vitamin A: 20IU | Vitamin C: 0.3mg | Calcium: 14mg | Iron: 2mg

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