Easy GF Coconut Macaroons

Today's Holiday G-F Cookie Recipe is a

Salted Caramel Macaroon.  A creamy, salty caramel switch up on an old Holiday favorite:

After baking the standard mararoon cookie recipe, (below), while still warm, press a spoon in the centers for an indentation.  Fill the dip with caramel filling and wait to cool.  Sprinkle coarse sea salt atop.

 Caramel filling:      Use one or two of the Christmas caramels you can't stop making or a Kraft rip-off.  Microwave them for a moment to soften, then add a teaspoon of milk or cream to thin slightly.  Spoon a drop into the centers and cool.  After these cool, sprinkle coarse sea salt atop.




First posted 1-12-11 and again in 2012
Happy Valentines Day!!   Fast, easy and delicious 

Easy Coconut Macaroons

Great Grandma Bezzant made these for me for the holiday buffet. I love people who don't have this nasty disease, but still want me to feel loved.  My husband's 93 year old grandmother, even though she suffers from macro-degeneration and is legally blind, still makes the effort to study up on gluten-free and bakes these for me.

If  I ever grow up, I want to be just like her.

EASY COCONUT MACAROONS

2 (8 oz.) pkgs. flaked coconut 1 (14 oz.) can sweetened condensed milk 2 tsp. vanilla Mix all ingredients together and drop onto greased cookie sheet. Bake 10 to 12 minutes at 350 degrees. Let cookies set before removing from cookie sheet. I halved the batch and it still makes a lot, (Particularly when you are the only coconut lover in the house.) Dipped in chocolate, these would make a delicious "Mounds" bar for Valentines. ...whatever am i going to do with a half can of sweetened condensed milk?