OK so macaroons are one of my favorite cookies by far. I was playing around with a coconut cheesecake recipe and during the 7 or 8 various batches I made, I stumbled upon something MUCH better.
Mack Daddy Macaroons
1.5% TFA Chesecake (graham crust)
4.5% CAP NEw York Cheescake
1.5% Cap Sugar Cookie
0.5% FLV Caramel
1% FW Cake batter dip
1.5% TFA Toasted marshmallow
1% Cap Butter Cream
1% TFA Sweet cream
0.1% FLV coconut
0.25% FLV Sweet coconut
1.5% TFA Coconut candy
Sucralose to taste
Macaroons, when done properly, are a gooey and rich cookie that is supposed to be soft. It of course, consists mostly of coconut, and TOASTED coconut at that.
The TFA CGC and Cap NY Cheesecake combine with Cap Sugar Cookie, FLV caramel and FW Cake Batter dip to create the OOEY gooey cookie filling taste and texture.
The CAP Butter Cream, TFA Sweet Cream are their just to add a creamy dimension.
The TFA Toasted Marshmallow lends some thickness and that KEY factor. TOASTYNESS!
As for the coconut, I went a little wild.. I chose to combine FLV coconut, FLV Sweet Coconut and TFA Coconut candy to create what I consider to be the most well rounded coconut flavor I have yet to develop with DIY. You could PROBABLY just use FLV coconut, but the batch I made that way was missing the depth I wanted from that part of the flavor profile.
I added some sucralose for sweetness, but very little. I think I went with 2 drops for 15ml.
EDIT: A few people have asked me why there is no almond in this. The recipe I was aiming for was the coconut macaroon I grew up with, which is a more americanized coconut macaroon, NOT the traditional french macaroon (which BTW often isnt even a coconut cookie). I do like almond, so I may try a version of this with CAP Toasted Almond (in an effort to enhance the key quality toastedness) but the current recipe really does heat the head on the nail for the toasted coconut macaroon I grew up with,
I don't have cap sweet coconut or fw cake batter dip, any ideas on substitutions? Should I just increase the normal coconut and use another cake batter?
Yes I think that would work. You could also just up Sugar cookie some, but I think some cakebatter (or perhaps a vanilla cupcake flavor) really helps.
The western american coconut macaroon is made up of lots of sweetened condensed milks, sugar and coconut and a few extra things, but no almond so I am sure you guys can see how this recipe mirrors that profile with the cheescakes and creams and sweetness and such.
This is awesome, love the multiple vendor same flavor profile blends here. Will want to try it with and without sucralose for sure.
You could ABSOLUTELY do without the sucralose, I just have a mega sweet tooth. With several CAP ingredients AND TFA sweet cream and toasted marsh, its already pretty sweet and delicious without it.
Have you tried INW Coconut Cookies? I'm getting an order in tomorrow but it seems like an ideal candidate for a coconut macaroon.
I have not tried that, but I am certainly very curious. Please report your findings if you get some in.
This looks awesome, thanks for posting. The only coconut I have is TFA coconut extra. I also have FA almond, so I might try a little variation using those two ingredients. I'll let you know if I do. Again, thanks for posting
I LOVE coconut taste. Saving this so once I get further into DIY I can give it a go. Thanks for sharing :)
Interesting. I will probably try this out next order, but I'm also thinking about adding some cherry flavors because my mother used to make these amazing cherry macaroons for the holidays. Amazing coconut macaroons with those cocktail cherries and drizzled with dark chocolate.
Thanks a bunch for the inspiration and the notes and the recipe.
This actually looks amazing and I just recently dripped into FLV sweet coconut and was blown away. This recipe looks right up my ally including the added 2 drops of sugary delightfulness. I am going to use your recipe with my available stash and come up with hopefully something similar in taste!
I hope it works out good for you. The recipe has a pretty strong degree of flexibility, but Sweet Coconut is one I would keep no matter what.
If you make any positive changes, report back!
My stash and I came up with this:
2% FA Marizpan
2%FA Meringue
.5%FLV Sweet Coconut
After a quick google search on macaroons flavor I came up with these 3. Almond, whipped egg whites and sugar and coconut. Marzipan is my favourite almond flavor and I think it'll work here nice. The meringue combined with the marzipan and coconut will be the main base for this recipe.
2% CAP Sugar Cookie
0.5% CAP New York Cheesecake
1.5% CAP Butter Cream
1.5% TPA Marshmallow
1.5% TPA Sweet Cream
1.5% TPA Vanilla Swirl
These are meant to add more notes and bring everything together to form the macaroon. Baked, butter, sugar, vanilla, cream, and increasing mouth-feel are what is intended here.
Just mixed this up and so far it has pasted the smell test and initial taste test. I'll post back with more notes as it ages. Thanks for your recipe/notes!
Glad you like. Like I mentioned ealrier, the macaroon I grew up with was not the french almond based macaroon, so my recipe wasnt aiming for that initially, but I may end up giving it a shot sometime, since I do enjoy almond, although I will be using CAP toasted almond to enhance the toasted quality that is so important on a coconut macaroon.
This looks tasty, but I'm pretty sure macaroons are made up of 90% almond meal and caster sugar. I would consider incorporating some almond for a more authentic flavor.
That would be the french macaroon. I prefer the regular coconut macaroon, which does not necessarily use any almond meal, but can in a few random recipes I have stumbled across. The regular old coconut macaroon I am used to eating during my life in the western united states has absolutely no almond flavor in it. I like almond, so perhaps I will try a variation of this using CAP Toasted almond, but overall I am pretty happy with the way it has turned out so I am in no rush.
Wow, I've had macaroons on my mind lately, having mixed two other pretty well-known macaroon recipes in the last couple weeks. Neither one is anything like that smooshy coconut cookie I love so much, although one of them features coconut. I will definitely be mixing this up soon!
yeah this one is dead on for my taste buds. I am possibly more proud of this than any other recipe I have done, just because it most completely mirrors the taste and texture of the thing I was going for. I have other great recipes, but this one really was the whole package, at least for me.
Clearly we have similar tastes, because I have all these flavors! I've been trying to nail this down for awhile and while my recipe is SOMEWHAT similar, I have never thought to try coconut candy as an addition to the FLV coconuts. I have to say, the coconut candy with the cake batter dip pushes this over the edge - it tastes so much like the kind of cookie you're talking about. It is super good as a shake and vape! My only concern was that I have the older, weaker FLV Coconut and not the new super powered one, so I used 1% instead of 0.1%. I don't know how perfectly that translates, but it tastes amazing. Great recipe!
Im very pleased you enjoy it like I do. You caught onto one thing I didnt really mention before. This is ABSOLUTELY a shake and vape. More so than any other recipe I have made. A single night of steeping and its really in the zone. You probably made the right call by amping up the gen1 flv coconut.
I've always found that a shake and vape is telling anyway. Some notes come out more with a bit of a steep, namely custards and cheesecakes, but if it doesn't at least taste good right away it's not going to. Things just tend to get a bit richer and more blended as time goes on, but the initial test is important. With this one, I really do get a sense of that toasted coconut with the gooey cookie inside, and I can tell that FLV Caramel is helping a lot with that. It's also a good sweetener, or at least I've found it to be so. Thanks again for posting the recipe and your notes!
you are welcome. I dont usually post development notes but I notice that on here most recipes that do not include notes often get overlooked and since I was so proud of this one I wanted to include them so more people tried it.
That FLV caramel is something else too. MY fav caramel by far. In conjunction with TFA caramel candy it is out of this world