Macarons: 3 Of The Most Delicious French Treat Recipes

2023 Author: Amber Richards | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-05-22 00:24

Small cakes from France are called differently in our country: macaroni, macaroni, macaroni. But this does not change the great taste of the dessert! We are sure that your loved ones will appreciate the aromatic delicacy prepared by yourself.

Strawberry macaroons

Ingredients:

Almond flour - 75 g
Egg whites - 50 g
Powdered sugar - 75 g
Sugar (fine crystalline) - 73 g
Food coloring - a pinch

For strawberry ganache:

White chocolate - 200 g
Cream (from 33%) - 50 ml
Strawberry puree - 100 g
Butter - 10 g

Preparation:

First, prepare the ganache. To do this, pour the cream into a saucepan, bring to a boil, add chocolate, stir until smooth.
Add butter to the strawberry puree, beat with a blender. Pour the resulting mixture into a bowl on top of the chocolate and refrigerate for 2 hours.
Pour the almond flour onto a baking sheet covered with parchment paper, level and send to the oven, preheated to 120 degrees, for 10 minutes. The cooled flour must be sifted through a sieve, add powdered sugar, and sift this mixture 2 more times.
Add 25 g of protein to the icing sugar, a little food coloring, mix and leave aside for a while.
Let's take care of the meringue. To do this, take 25 g of protein, pour it into a clean and dry saucepan and beat until soft peaks form. Then add sugar and continue to beat until stable peaks.
Partially mix the meringue with the sugar-almond mixture. Pour the mixture into a pastry bag and squeeze the macaroons onto a baking sheet lined with parchment. We send it to the oven, heated to 160 degrees, for 12-14 minutes.
Put ganache on the baked macaroons and cover it with the other half on top.

Chocolate macaroons

Ingredients:

Almond flour - 50 g
Powdered sugar - 165 g
Cocoa - 25 g
Egg whites - 82 g

For the chocolate ganache:

Dark chocolate - 150 g
Cream 33% - 150 g

Preparation:

Mix almond flour and 100 g of powdered sugar and sift through a sieve. Put the resulting mixture on a baking sheet covered with parchment, send it to the oven, preheated to 150 degrees, and let it dry for 6-7 minutes.
We take the mixture out of the oven, cool, add cocoa and sift again. We leave her aside.
After that, beat the whites until foam forms, then add 65 g of powdered sugar and beat again until stable peaks.
In several approaches, we mix the proteins into the almond mixture. Mix thoroughly and pour into a pastry bag.
We spread the macaroons on a sheet of parchment. We leave until the dough stops sticking, and then we send it to the oven preheated to 160 degrees for 16 minutes.
For the cream, pour chocolate with hot cream, leave for 30 seconds, and then stir.
We fasten the finished macarons with chocolate cream.

Coffee macarons with white chocolate

Ingredients:

Almond flour - 50 g
Powdered sugar - 165 g
Egg whites - 82 g
Cocoa - 25 g

For coffee and chocolate cream:

White chocolate - 100 g
Coffee - 200 ml
Cream 33% - 150 g

Preparation:

The chocolate must first be broken into small pieces, put in a saucepan and pour a glass of hot coffee. At this time, bring the cream to a boil, and then pour it into the chocolate-coffee mixture, beat and leave in the refrigerator until thickened.
Mix flour and 100 g of powdered sugar, sift and dry as in the previous recipes. Then add cocoa, pass the mixture through a sieve again.
Beat the whites until weak peaks are formed, then add the powdered sugar and beat again. As a result, the proteins should be stable. After receiving the meringue, mix it in parts into the almond-sugar mixture.
Pour the dough into a pastry bag and put the macaroons on the parchment. Next, we send the future French dessert to the oven heated to 160 degrees for 15 minutes.
When our macaroons are baked, all that remains is to seal them with thickened chocolate-coffee cream.

Author: Ekaterina Lunegova

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