Christmas Coconut Macaroons
These Christmas coconut macaroons are rich, sweet, and they only have 5 ingredients! They are the perfect vegan Christmas cookie!
Servings: 10 people
Ingredients
- 2 ½ cups unsweetened shredded coconut.
- 4 tablespoon aquafaba whipped for 2 minutes also could use 2 whipped egg whites
- 4 teaspoon vanilla extract
- ⅛ teaspoon Pink Salt
- ½ cup granulated sugar
Instructions
- Pre-heat oven to 350 and line a cookie sheet with parchment paper.
- In a small bowl measure in aquafaba (chickpea liquid) and mix with a hand mixer or vigorously whisk for 2 minutes, set aside. (or egg whites if you prefer)
- In a medium bowl measure in coconut, sugar, vanilla, and salt. Pour in aquafaba and mix all ingredients well with a wooden spoon.
- Pour all the ingredients in a Nutri-Bullet or blender and blend for a few seconds until all ingredients come together.
- Form a couple of tablespoons of mixture at a time into Christmas tree shapes and place on parchment paper prepared cookie sheet.
- Bake 10-15 minutes or until firm and lightly brown.
- Remove from the oven and let cool completely before removing. (you may need to cut around them with a knife to remove them from any liquid that bubbled out and hardened)
- If you would like you can sprinkle the trees with powdered sugar to resemble snow. You can also dip bottoms in melted chocolate! (see above post)
- Enjoy!