Ingredients:
- 1/3 cup butter or margarine, softened
- 1 package (3 oz.) cream cheese, softened
- 3/4 cup sugar
- 1 egg yolk
- 2 teaspoons almond extract
- 2 teaspoons orange juice
- 1-1/4 cups all-purpose flour
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 5 cups Sweetened Coconut Flakes, divided
- Robin Egg Candies
Directions
To make the macroon cookies as your base, you’ll beat together your butter, cream cheese, and sugar in a large bowl until well blended. Add in the egg yolk, almond extract and orange juice, beating your mixture together.
Next, sift together your dry ingredients – flour, baking powder and salt. Slowly add the dry ingredients mix to your wet ingredients, beating the mixture together until well blended. Add in 3 cups of coconut, saving aside the additional 2 cups for later.
Refrigerate your cookies until firm enough to handle and then roll the cookies into 1″ balls. Roll each of your cookie balls in the set aside portion of coconut and place on a greased or lined cookie sheet.
Bake your cookies at 350° F for 10-12 minutes, or lightly browned. Now, you’ll take the cookies out of the oven and let them sit to cool for two minutes. Then, press your robins egg candies using 2-3 per cookie into the center of the cookie to make a nest. If the cookies are too hot, the eggs will crack as you’re adding them to the nest. You do want to add the eggs while the cookies are warm, though, to help them form the dip and nest.
Source : allrecipes.Com
