CHOCOLATE COATED MACAROONS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350.
• Combine coconut, 1 teaspoon vanilla extract and salt in a medium bowl.
• Mix in sweetened condensed milk to form a thick paste and coat all coconut.
• Beat egg whites with 1 teaspoon cream of tartar until stiff.
• Fold egg whites into coconut mixture.
• Drop by rounded teaspoons onto parchment paper on cookie sheet, about 2 inches apart.
• Flatten slightly (trust me, it will make it alot easier when you chocolate coat them).
• Bake 8-10 minutes or until tops begin to turn light brown.
• Remove from oven and let cool on pan about 2 minutes.
• Remove from pan onto wire rack and let cool completely.
• Meanwhile, prepare glaze by melting chocolate chips.
• Add vanilla extract and powdered sugar to melted chocolate
• Add water until chocolate mixture becomes a good consistency to dip the macaroons in (the idea is to be not too thin and not too thick; it should stick to the cookies but not be too thick).
• To coat macaroons, let cool completely.
• Dip the flat bottoms of macaroons into chocolate mixture then place them upside down on wire rack.
• Let the bottom coating cool either at room temperature, or you can stick em in the fridge to speed up the process.
• Once the coating has set on the bottoms, coat the tops and place back on wire rack with set bottom on the bottom.
• Allow chocolate to set.