Coconut Macaroons and Anise Drops
As promised here are the coconut macaroons and the anise drops from the Martha Stewart’s Cookies book. The macaroons were simple to make, 5 ingredients, one bowl, mixed by hand. They baked for 17 minutes and came out browned on the outside and soft and chewy on the inside. The recipe made 10 cookies so if you want more than that I would double the recipe. The only drawback to the Martha Stewart’s Cookies book that I have found is that it doesn’t list how many cookies a recipe will yield.
The anise cookies were also quick and simple to make. 6 ingredients total, the dry had to be sifted together in one bowl and the other ingredients went right into my Kitchen Aid mixer with the whisk attachment. I put the first couple of batches onto parchment paper to cook but they were difficult to remove from the paper. I tried my Silpat next and surprisingly they stuck to that too. When I eventually got them off the trays and cooled the result was a thin cookie that was crispy on the outside and chewy on the inside. The smell of the anise in the house was terrific and reason enough to try making a batch of these cookies.
