Triple Coconut Macaroons

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Appears in Cook's Illustrated January/February 2000, America's Test Kitchen TV

Most coconut macaroons are achingly sweet, sticky mounds of semicooked dough that don't taste much like coconut. To solve these problems, we used three kinds of coconut.

SERVESMakes about 4 dozen 1-inch cookies

TIME1 hour, plus 30 minutes cooling

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WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

Early in the development of our macaroon recipe, our tests showed that our choice of coconut would make a big difference in both taste and texture. Unsweetened shredded coconut resulted in a less sticky, more appealing texture. Sweetened sh...

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