Mom's Favorite Holiday

April Fools Day was perhaps Mom's favorite holiday. As my brother said "If it wasn't for Mom's April Food Day tricks, she could have been declared a Saint".

It's hard to believe that less than 1 year ago she was still enjoying such tricks.

Her all time cleverest trick were her cotton ball coconut macaroons. We made these for the home health aide last year, and Mother thoroughly enjoyed watching as the aide attempted to eat one.

Here's the recipe

Ingredients

2 egg whites
12 large cotton balls
1 cup shredded coconut

Beat the egg whites until they peak *

Take the cotton balls, using your fingers, dip them in the egg white,covering entire surface, then roll in the shredded coconut. Place on ungreased cookie sheet, and put in oven at 400 degrees until the coconut turns brown.

I can't recall how long this takes -not long, maybe about 5 minutes, so check them every couple of minutes.

They will look like perfect coconut macaroon cookies.


*for you non-cooks, you must use a metal or glass bowl, totally free of grease, preferably chilled. Then beat the egg whites with an electric mixer until they turn white, and continue beating them until they will make "peaks" when you lift up the mixer blades

Now, the real trick is to get someone to try them, without appearing suspicious. One must plan out how you will approach the person. Sometimes I have pretended to "eat one", so others will.

Also, you must watch them eat "the cookie", so you can be present to keep them from swallowing it (yes, they are people who have tried to do so).

If you target one person, it's more fun if you let a couple of people in on the joke before hand, so you can all enjoy the reaction.

Happy April Fools Day.

Compliments of Mom.