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dorchadas
Originally, I was just going to skip this week. Then I was going to use some candy that we had gotten in our Japanese candy shipment that didn't have any chametz in it, but did have mochi and strawberry and looked like it would be a pink explosion. And then, as we were walking by a display of Passover goods in Whole Foods, I saw these. Chocolate? Yes. Seasonably appropriate? Yes. Worth spending an entry on?
C-C-C-COMBO BREAKER.
Coconut macaroons are a traditional Passover desert nowadays, because they obviously don't need to be made with anything approaching chametz and also because they're delicious. Traditional, of course, still meaning relatively modern, back to the late 19th century. It's not like you could get coconuts in the shtelt, or even in the Jewish quarters of the Ottoman Empire. But I love coconut and it's great in everything, so I'm not going to complain. And chocolate-coated macaroons are one of the best kind of macaroons and are great year-round but especially during Passover.
They do look delicious.
Unfortunately, dear reader, my gamble did not pay off. I was deceived.
That picture certainly makes it seem like these are chocolate-filled, coconut macaroons with a gooey chocolate-chip center that's leaked all around them after they're cooked and formed almost a crust. That's what I was expecting and what I was going to base my writeup on. But it's not true. These barely have any chocolate at all--at most one or two chips per macaroon, buried in the center like a pearl in an oyster. Rather than being a delicious chocolate core with an equally-delicious coconut shell, they're just...coconut macaroons, with the occasional chocolate chip that I could barely taste.
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faylynne once made chocolate raspberry macaroons for a Seder and I ate probably a dozen of them. They were the most amazing macaroons I've ever eaten. Those would be worth writing about, but this is just...coconut. It's certainly a combo breaker, but not in the way that I intended. 
The chocolate is those tiny black flecks, I think.
schoolpsychnerd's Opinion
If you want macaroons, I recommend them! But calibrate your expectations, and don't believe that lying picture.
C-C-C-COMBO BREAKER.
Coconut macaroons are a traditional Passover desert nowadays, because they obviously don't need to be made with anything approaching chametz and also because they're delicious. Traditional, of course, still meaning relatively modern, back to the late 19th century. It's not like you could get coconuts in the shtelt, or even in the Jewish quarters of the Ottoman Empire. But I love coconut and it's great in everything, so I'm not going to complain. And chocolate-coated macaroons are one of the best kind of macaroons and are great year-round but especially during Passover.
Unfortunately, dear reader, my gamble did not pay off. I was deceived.
That picture certainly makes it seem like these are chocolate-filled, coconut macaroons with a gooey chocolate-chip center that's leaked all around them after they're cooked and formed almost a crust. That's what I was expecting and what I was going to base my writeup on. But it's not true. These barely have any chocolate at all--at most one or two chips per macaroon, buried in the center like a pearl in an oyster. Rather than being a delicious chocolate core with an equally-delicious coconut shell, they're just...coconut macaroons, with the occasional chocolate chip that I could barely taste.
schoolpsychnerd's OpinionI have to say I agree withThat is a good point. I've had macaroons that were more like a bunch of shredded coconut shoved together, and they were still good, but not as good as these. These were gooey in the way that good macaroons should be, so the problem is mostly that I was judging them by standards they couldn't hope to meet.
If you want macaroons, I recommend them! But calibrate your expectations, and don't believe that lying picture.
