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Fiddle Diddles (aka Macaroons)

One of my “fall back” recipes for cookies are always macaroons. They’re quick, easy, no-bake, and really, who doesn’t love macaroons? The recipe I use comes from the “Company’s Coming – Kids Cooking” cookbook that my grandparents bought for me when I was 10. I could go look for a new “grown up” version, but why mess with a good thing?

 

 

Fiddle Diddles (aka Macaroons)
Author: The Gourmet Housewife
Ingredients
  • 1/2 cup butter or hard margarine
  • 2 cups white sugar
  • 1/2 cup milk
  • 6 tbsp unsweetened cocoa powder
  • 3 cups quick cooking rolled oats
  • 1/2 cup coconut
  • 1/2 cup walnuts*
  • pinch of salt
  • 1 tsp vanilla flavoring
Instructions
  1. Put the butter or margarine, sugar and milk into a large pot. Heat on medium, stirring often, until it comes to a boil. Remove from heat.
  2. Add remaining ingredients. Stir well. Drop by rounded teaspoonfuls onto waxed paper. Cool completely.
Notes
I always omit the walnuts and just add extra coconut and oats. I also like to add a 1/2 tsp of chocolate extract – because there’s no such thing as too much chocolate.
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7 Comments

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    Deborah
    March 4, 2013 at 7:54 pm

    Hi, I’m curious to know, did the Company’s Coming cookbook call them Fiddle Diddles? And what year was it from. Funny, I always thought my mom made up the name back in the 50’s. I’ve been putting the recipe in community cookbooks for years, trying to get people to call them Fiddle Diddles. Let me know, if you can. Thanks!

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      Jacquelyn Bauer
      March 5, 2013 at 9:28 am

      Hi Deborah,

      It does call them Fiddle Diddles! I don’t have the book with me to check the year, but I know that it was bought for me in the early 90s. It’s definitely not made up. ;)

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        Sarah
        May 15, 2013 at 7:44 pm

        I was so happy to find this recipe online! I have the exact same cookbook from the blue Company’s coming kids cookbook, which I also received from my grandmothers collection! I have a whole series of the books, however the one containing the Fiddle Diddle recipe is the best one! I moved away and have been without my cookbooks so I was very pleased to find someone with the original recipe!
        Thank you :)

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        Deborah
        May 16, 2013 at 6:36 am

        Thank you, I’m still trying to trace the origins of the name “Fiddle Diddles” for this recipe. If anyone stops by here who called them Fiddle Diddles prior to the Company’s Coming book,(back in the 50’s or 60’s) I’d sure like to hear from them.

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          kim
          December 9, 2013 at 12:34 pm

          I learned this recipe in kindergarden as a class project (make Mom a recipe book for Mother’s Day) along with a few others. This was back in 1966 in rural Ontario Canada. They were called Fiddle Diddles then.

          • Deborah
            December 9, 2013 at 9:27 pm

            Thank you for the info! I think our family first used it in a cookbook for mom, made in school too. Since then, I’ve added the recipe to many community cook books.

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