The Absolute Best Coconut “Haystack” Macaroons (3 desserts for Passover and another Le Creuset Giveaway!)

Sadly my mom is not with us anymore (and boy do I miss her) but if she were here, I’d love to make her a batch of French Toast, one of her favorites.

hm…I’d probably make something lemony. maybe a cheesecake?

I love Passover–the food is the absolute best, that is, the food is the best EXCEPT for the desserts. Popping open a can of macaroons just doesn’t satisfy my sweet craving. So, I can’t wait to make these heavenly looking macaroons, and of course, I love a great caramel and chocolate dipped matzoh!

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I’m a new mom and for my first mother’s day I’d love to have something chocolate (not very original)

I got my love of chocolate from my mom! I might try making her a chocolate mousse pie.

For Mother’s Day, I would love for my son to bake me a tart homemade apple pie, which is my all time favourite comfort dessert. Perhaps he could make it in a heart shaped Le Creuset pot for next Mother’s Day?

I would make my mom a molton lava cake! In fact, thats exactly what I’ll be making! Love the macaroons!

Lemon! Something lemony and light and cakey and mousse-y.

My mom’s favorite dessert is Apple Crisp, and she’s been craving Dulce de Leche for a while now, so I’m thinking I’ll make a sinful Dulce de Leche Apple Crisp for her–which would look terrific if baked in this adorable heart-shaped dish!

Mom isn’t living near us, but if she was I would make her the White Chocolate Lemon Pudding I made this week. I think she would really enjoy it.

The haystacks look so tasty! I can’t wait to make them! I think I will make a lemon trifle with berries! Love the heart dishes!

My mom loves anything lemon flavored so I need a good lemon idea!

My husband, on the other hand, doesn’t care for lemony treats so I don’t make them very often. I guess I could make him the haystacks you posted here and he could eat them while we eat lemon dessert!

I love those little ramekins! Wish I had one!

I would make Chocolate Chip Pie for my mom. It was a recipe that my Grandmother developed in her High School Home Ec class. We are lucky to still have this recipe in our family!

Hi jen,

I use either. Which ever one I’ve got!

Great to see you! Zoë

I’m going to make my mom some German Chocolate Cupcakes. They’re her favorite!

Nothing makes me think of a mother more than a warm apple pie. And individual ones (or one to share) would be so cute made in the heart-shaped dishes.

Last year I made my mom a white chocolate strawberry layer cake…and if I do say so, it was fantastic. She remember my baking disasters from my teen years, and it was fun to talk about how far I’ve come (she’s a baker, too).

Oh gosh, that heart shaped ramekin is adorable! I wanted some of their tiny oval bakers at Christmas, but, well, the family presents came first. For Mother’s Day? Hummm, I love, love, love eclairs, and cherry or strawberry clafouti. Not sure the kids even know how to make them, but those would be my picks.

I would make a raspberry white chocolate cheese tart for my mom. For myself I would love someone to make me something truly decadent for mothers day.

Oh, but last year, I made chocolate ganache cupcakes with candied violets on top and packaged 6 per box and gave them to my mother and MIL. They loved them and they were so easy!

My mom loves pineapple desserts so I’d probably make her a homemade pineapple milkshake or pineapple upside down cake (even though I think it’s gross)

In my family, we usually celebrate with pie, not cake. All my life, I’ve thought cake was just a dry brownie masquarading as a dessert worth eating. And then, a few weekends ago, I made a cake from scratch for my in-laws’ birthdays. Wow. Finally, cake worth eating!
That cake is the one I would make for my mom–four layers of buttery white cake filled with homemade lemon curd (the juice squeezed with love from an entire bag of tiny, hard-as-rocks lemons) and topped with glossy white icing and toasted sliced almonds. Perhaps I need to practice once more before Mother’s Day…

The dessert i’ll be making for my Mom? Gingerbread with lemon sauce and whipped cream.
A wonderful dessert that was served often when i was growing up.

I think I’d like something like an oven-baked pancake – simple but really flavorful (and full of carbs!)

Fantastic recipes Zoe! Hmmm she loves all things buttery so whilst it sounds boring, some cute little shortbread buttons

My mom loves coconut cream pie and I bet she’ll be head over heals for these macaroons. I’ll probably end up shipping her a box of these macaroons since a cream pie would never make it across the country in one piece. I would love it if someone made me the carrot cake that you posted a while ago on your blog.

My mom typically orders one of two types of desserts: some form of chocolate cake or some form of apple pie or tart.

I’ve been trying to think of a way to combine the two, maybe caramel is the bridge to bring them together? A chocolate apple cake with caramel drizzle? An apple tart with a chocolate crust?

Hmmm. I’m still working on it. You have any ideas?

something lemon, cake or somehow incorporate ABin% dough. My Mom absolutely loves the breads I bake from your book. She also loves lemon and blueberry so anything you can do with those, I am patiently waiting!

Thanks for helping me make my Mom happy! She’s having health problems – just had the joints in her right hand replaced due to Rheumatory Arthritis so we are hoping she will be able to get back in the kitchen one of these days. Until then, I am her baking slave.

I love macaroons but have never tried them with dried fruit. Sounds wonderful and will make them soon. First I want to make a Pot Pie and would love that little le creuset pot to test out. Pick me please!!!!

I wanted to make has my mére a cheeskeak has fruit of the paisson, but I live in France and my mére in brazil, then I fairai its cheeskeak and I will eat in front of the computer with her

je voudrais faire un cheeskeak à la fruit de la passion, car je sais qui ma mère adore, mais j’habite en France et ma mère au Brésil, alors je vais faire et je mangerai devant l’ordinateur avec elle, car ce le seule moyen de passer son jour avec elle

My mother was a wonderful baker and she passed her passion to bake to my sister and me. If she were still with us today I would make her Frangipane Apricot Bars.

If my Mom were still with us I would make her meringue shells with strawberries and whipped cream in them.
Love all your receipes!

I’m thinking about making a nice fruit tart with a lemon or vanilla custard filling…it would be be so spring like!

Don’t know what happened, but my macaroons did not turn out too well; the egg whites sort of seeped out of the mounds in the oven and the resulting stacks flattened out. Taste great, though.

Mom mom is gone as well, but I’d love to make her a little Tiramisu and that little Le Creuset Stoneware Heart Ramekin would be perfect for it.

WOW – I always love coconut macaroons, but I never had them loaded up with goodies like yours are. I bet they’re divine!!

Yay for Kosher for Passover recipes! I’ll have to try and make one of these this year. I believe that I would make my mom something she remembers enjoying from her childhood. Maybe it’s something she can have regularly or not, but the purpose would be two fold. One she’d be eating something she enjoys and maybe be full of memories and Two, she wouldn’t have to make it herself or spend money somewhere else to have it!

One of my favorite “celebration” desserts is one I learned to make from my mother, and very versatile, too: classic chiffon cake and its almost infinite variations. It also seems to say “spring” . . . perhaps because of its lightness and all the eggs!

My mom loves her raisin tea biscuits and I make her a fresh batch for her every mother’s day.

I might make my mom some ensaimadas (snail shaped brioche). I’m thinking about making these instead though. She’s a big fan of coconut macaroons.

Perfect timing–I was just trying to find a good sweet recipe to make for Passover. That heart shape Le Creuset would be the perfect addition to my newly started collection!

I’d make brownies. It’s my mother’s favorite dessert. Some caramel drizzled on top and some whip.

I will make my mom a plum pie. It’s a family favorite but she says she is tired of making it. It’s my turn to carry the plum torch!

I will probably make my mom an angel food cake, though I’d like a new option for a berry combination to put on the cake. Mom has dementia, so she doesn’t remember what her favorite dessert is, but she loves to get out in the garden and pick raspberries, so the angel food cake with raspberries might taste good to her.

maybe a warm vanilla cake with lindt white coconut chocolate, served warm with a scoop of vanilla ice cream and fresh sliced strawberries