Dark chocolate coconut clusters
After my last dessert recipe turned out so be so popular I decided to try out another one. This recipe is a bit simpler than the chocolate peanut butter middles, but it's still delicious. These dark chocolate coconut clusters are essentially a no-bake version of macaroons. I'm a huge dark chocolate fan, so expect a lot of these desert recipes to be popping up on the blog. For this recipe I'm using some Green & Blacks Organic 70 percent cacao dark chocolate. You can use a higher percent cacao chocolate if you want for this recipe. The recipe I'm basing this on from 101 Cookbooks used a 70 percent cacao chocolate. I just recently got into coconut so this is the first recipe I've tried using it. The original ingredients are below with my notes in italics. The directions are slightly modified from the original, again with my notes in italics. Ingredients: 2 1/2 cups finely shredded unsweetened coconut, lightly toasted and cooled (I initially toasted the coc...