Coconut Cookie Bark

By jab120638

Ingredients

• 1 1/3 cups sweetened coconut
• 2 tablespoons + 2 teaspoons sugar
• 1 1/2 tablespoons flour
• Pinch salt
• 1/4 teaspoon almond extract
• 1 egg white
• 12 macaroon cookies (1” size) either store-bought or from scratch (see below for recipe)
• 30 Hershey’s Coconut Creme Kisses (or, if you can’t find those, try the almond ones)
• 3 cups Milk Chocolate Chips
• 1/4 - 1/2 cup sliced almonds, toasted (place in a 350° oven on a baking sheet for just a few minutes)

Details

Servings 13
Adapted from crazyforcrust.com

Preparation

Step 1

Preheat oven to 350°. Grease and flour a cookie sheet, or use a Silpat.
Stir together coconut, sugar, flour, and salt in a medium bowl. Add almond extract and egg white and stir until well blended. Drop 1” balls onto your prepared cookie sheet.
Bake about 15 minutes until edges of cookies are golden brown. Remove from cookie sheet to wire rack to cool.
Make the Bark:
Chop up your macaroons and Kisses. Line a cookie sheet with waxed paper.
Melt chocolate chips in a medium, microwave safe bowl about 2 minutes, stirring every 30 seconds.
Spread 2/3 of the melted chocolate on the prepared cookie sheet. Sprinkle chopped cookies, Kisses, and almonds on top. Drizzle with remaining chocolate. Chill until hardened. Break into pieces before serving.
This bark starts with macaroons. You can buy them at the store or make your own. I cut down the recipe so it only makes 13. You need 12 for this bark. Do what you will with the 13th. I’m not telling where mine went.

And top it with the good stuff. I added toasted almonds too.

¼ - ½ cup sliced almonds, toasted (place in a 350° oven on a baking sheet for just a few minutes)

Make the macaroons (if you're not using store-bought):

Preheat oven to 350°. Grease and flour a cookie sheet, or use a Silpat.

Stir together coconut, sugar, flour, and salt in a medium bowl. Add almond extract and egg white and stir until well blended. Drop 1” balls onto your prepared cookie sheet.

Make the Bark:

Melt chocolate chips in a medium, microwave safe bowl about 2 minutes, stirring every 30 seconds.