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    Honey Hazelnut Macaroons

    November 10, 2015 by Regina 25 Comments

    Insight for this post was provided by GE Café™ Series. Their restaurant inspired appliance series is perfect to cook up a storm for the holidays or to bake delicious treats like these Honey Hazelnut Macaroons.

    Honey Hazelnut Macaroons are a holiday twist on the classic coconut version. The soft, gluten-free cookies are only sweetened with honey and paleo-friendly

    Over the last few years I’ve spent several holiday seasons away from home and family, simply because our travels took us too far away to visit. It’s especially during these festive seasons that I miss them the most though.

    With lots of great memories from previous years to reminisce on, not being with family during the holidays makes it extra nostalgic for me.
    Being a foodie, my most cherished memories of course involve food. In fact, my fondest holiday food-memory includes a ton of German Christmas cookies we made (and ate) growing up.

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    Honey Hazelnut Macaroons are a holiday twist on the classic coconut version. The soft, gluten-free cookies are only sweetened with honey and paleo-friendly

    Honey Hazelnut Macaroons are a holiday twist on the classic coconut version. The soft, gluten-free cookies are only sweetened with honey and paleo-friendly

    Cookies were our treats, snacks, and dessert during the holiday season. After coming home from school, I would make a hot chocolate to warm up and grab a few cookies – there always were some – to sweeten up my homework time.

    In those days the weekends leading up to Christmas were always filled with lots of baking. My mom, sisters and I would bake countless dozens of cookies – always at least 2-3 different kinds at a time. We basically lived in the kitchen during those times.

    We had a creative system of rotating baking sheets and stacking cooling racks to accomplish this in our one trusty oven. Things would have been so much simpler with one of these stylish Double Ovens from the GE Café™ Series. We could have baked more cookies in less time using the convection mode.

    GE Café™ Double Oven with Convection Range

    Oh my, this makes me swoon! Other women might add jewelry to their Christmas wish list, I’d much prefer sparkly stainless-steel appliances.

    Ahh…where were we again? Right! Cookies!

    Classic coconut macaroons are one of the cookie types we would always make for Christmas. Today I made a variation of the classic with ground hazelnuts.

    Honey Hazelnut Macaroons are a holiday twist on the classic coconut version. The soft, gluten-free cookies are only sweetened with honey and paleo-friendly

    These soft hazelnut macaroons melt in your mouth. Instead of refined sugar, they are made with with honey. There is also no flour in this recipe. Which means those macaroons are gluten free and paleo friendly!

    For a chocolate version, I added cocoa powder to half of the batch. The macaroons are baked on low heat for a longer time which keeps (at least the non-chocolate ones) from browning too much.

    Honey Hazelnut Macaroons are a holiday twist on the classic coconut version. The soft, gluten-free cookies are only sweetened with honey and paleo-friendly

    A delicious clean-eating treat for the holidays or any time of year.

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    Honey Hazelnut Macaroons
     
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    Prep time
    15 mins
    Cook time
    30 mins
    Total time
    45 mins
     
    Honey Hazelnut Macaroons are a holiday twist on the classic coconut version. These soft, gluten-free cookies are sweetened with only honey and there is a chocolate version too. They are paleo-friendly as well.
    Author: LeelaLicious
    Yield: 16
    Ingredients
    • 3 cups (250 g) ground hazelnuts
    • ¼ cup unsweetened cocoa (optional)
    • 1 teaspoon cinnamon
    • 2 eggs, separated
    • ¼ teaspoon salt
    • ¼ cup (80 g) honey
    • ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
    • 16 whole hazelnuts
    Instructions
    1. Preheat your oven to 250 F (120 C). Line a baking sheet with wax paper or parchment brushed with a thin coat of oil.
    2. Whisk together ground hazelnuts and cinnamon (and optional cocoa) to combine and set aside.
    3. Separate the eggs. Beat the egg whites with salt until they start to stiffen. Add the honey and vanilla and keep beating to a soft peak meringue stage (the mixture will stay in the bowl if turned upside down, but the peaks at the end of the beaters softly turn downwards).
    4. Carefully fold in first the egg yolks, then the hazelnut mixture. Using a cookie scoop, place 16 mounds of the batter onto the prepared baking sheet. Top each cookie with a whole hazelnut.
    5. Bake the cookies for 25-30 minutes. Let the finished cookies cool on the sheet. Store airtight for a few days at room temperature.
    Notes
    In Germany, macaroons are typically baked on edible wafer papers. To skip that step but still keep the macaroons from sticking, use wax paper or lightly coat parchment with oil and use a sharp thin knife to remove the cooled cookies from the paper.
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    Disclosure: Insight for this post was provided by GE Café™ Series – innovative appliances that bring the expertise of the restaurant, home, during the holiday season. Thank you so much for supporting the brands that make Leelalicious possible.

     

    Honey Hazelnut Macaroons are a holiday twist on the classic coconut version. The soft, gluten-free cookies are only sweetened with honey and paleo-friendly

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    Comments

    1. Michelle @ The Complete Savorist says

      November 23, 2015 at 9:22 pm

      I look forward to the day I stop renting and have my own home. This is now on the wish list.

      Reply
    2. Debra says

      November 23, 2015 at 1:12 pm

      These look amazing! I love macaroons!

      Reply
      • Regina says

        November 23, 2015 at 8:24 pm

        Thanks so much Debra

        Reply
    3. Jillian @ Food, Folks and Fun says

      November 19, 2015 at 11:27 am

      I so want a double oven! These cookies look amazing!

      Reply
      • Regina says

        November 19, 2015 at 9:12 pm

        Christmas cookie baking would be such a breeze with a double oven!

        Reply
    4. Nicole says

      November 19, 2015 at 8:59 am

      These hazelnut macaroons look so tasty! I should look into investing in a double oven soon.

      Reply
      • Regina says

        November 19, 2015 at 9:13 pm

        There will definitely be a double oven if I get to design a kitchen 🙂

        Reply
    5. Melanie says

      November 18, 2015 at 8:50 am

      Ahh….a double oven! Sounds wonderful- and these macaroons look delicious!

      Reply
    6. Healing Tomato says

      November 17, 2015 at 9:09 pm

      These macaroons look so delicious and creative.

      Reply
    7. Carisa Smith says

      November 17, 2015 at 6:28 pm

      I’m a huge fan of stainless steel and those cookies look amazing!

      Reply
    8. christine says

      November 17, 2015 at 6:21 am

      Oh, my! These look like a wonderful addition to the holiday dessert table! And that oven – yes ma’am looks so sharp!

      Reply
    9. [email protected] says

      November 16, 2015 at 7:57 pm

      These sound delicious! And a double oven has been on my wish list forever!

      Reply
      • Regina says

        November 16, 2015 at 8:14 pm

        Oh the freedom a double oven would bring 🙂

        Reply
    10. Danita says

      November 16, 2015 at 6:24 am

      I’m drooling over the cookies AND the oven!

      Reply
      • Regina says

        November 16, 2015 at 8:16 pm

        Right there with you 🙂

        Reply
    11. Emily says

      November 16, 2015 at 5:57 am

      YUMMY!!! those cookies look so tasty! I love Hazelnut! That oven looks amazing too!

      Reply
      • Regina says

        November 16, 2015 at 8:17 pm

        Nutty macaroons are so perfect for the holidays!

        Reply
    12. [email protected]'s Recipes says

      November 11, 2015 at 7:28 am

      These cookies would be GONE in minutes at our home. They look so nutty and delicious.

      Reply
      • Regina says

        November 13, 2015 at 11:30 am

        Soo nutty indeed! Olivia loves them too, so she is now helping us gobble up treats too 😉

        Reply
    13. Denise @ Sweet Peas & Saffron says

      November 10, 2015 at 9:31 pm

      Oh what I would do with a double oven! And these cookies look amazing, I’d never guess they had no refined sugar or flour!

      Reply
      • Regina says

        November 11, 2015 at 1:33 am

        Isn’t that double oven just gorgeous?

        Reply
    14. jacquee | i sugar coat it! says

      November 10, 2015 at 7:46 pm

      These look amazing, Regina! I just made a batch of hazelnut flour, so these may very well make it onto my weekend bake list. 🙂

      Reply
      • Regina says

        November 11, 2015 at 1:26 am

        Yay to nut flours. I recall ground nuts (hazelnut and almonds) being readily available for a low prize in every Germany grocery store. Maybe thats why so many traditional German Christmas cookies use nut flours and are thereby naturally gluten-free.

        Reply
    15. Vicky & Ruth- May I Have That Recipe says

      November 10, 2015 at 1:19 pm

      These look delicious! I love how they are made with hazelnuts. Sounds like a perfect holiday dessert 🙂

      Reply
      • Regina says

        November 11, 2015 at 1:18 am

        Thanks so much! Yes, somehow that nutty hazelnut flavor brings up so many Christmas memories for me 🙂

        Reply

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