Chocolate Dipped Coconut Macaroons

Easy to make and hard to resist, these chocolate dipped coconut macaroons are sure to satisfy your sweet tooth. Chewy on the inside and crispy on the outside, these gluten-free cookies are perfect for anyone crazy about coconut.

There’s no crying in baseball, Tom Hanks said it so it must be true. It certainly seems like a legitimate mandate to me. You can’t hit a baseball torpedoing toward you at a hundred miles an hour if your eyes are too welled with tears to see.

Bawling has no place in America’s pastime, but there’s always a time and place for it in my kitchen. I try to keep my tears in my eyes where they belong but today they tracked down my cheeks and plopped right into a bowl of curdled mascarpone.

Side note: Do not mispronounce it MARS-capone in my presence or I will slap you until you’re crying, too.

I’m from Pennsylvania so I’d understand if Philadelphia’s cream cheese copped an attitude like a Northerner, but Italy’s cream cheese? Fugetaboutit! Mascarpone is just plain rude. What’s more, I spent eight bucks on a tiny tub of that European crap only to have it curdle up on me the instant I whipped it with cold cream.

You broke my heart, mascarpone; you broke my heart.

How was I supposed to know Italian cream cheese is prone to curdling for half a dozen reasons including if you look at it the wrong way? Screw that. I trashed the mascarpone, dried my mascara-smeared eyes then decided to make coconut macaroons, a dessert with American citizenship.

Or so I thought.

Imagine my surprise when I googled the origin of macaroons and learned, like mascarpone, they’re also from Italy of all freaking places. Surely that entire boot-shaped country is conspiring against me today.

To clarify, coconut macaroons only have five ingredients and none of them are drama queens. In fact, I was able to prep the cookie batter in fifteen minutes without crying a single time. Although, taking a bite of a soft, chewy macaroon after it was dipped and drizzled with dark chocolate did bring a tear of happiness to my eye.

Easy to make and hard to resist, these chocolate dipped coconut macaroons are sure to satisfy your sweet tooth. Moist and chewy on the inside and crispy on the outside, these gluten-free cookies are perfect for anyone crazy about coconut.