Hey everyone, it’s me again, Dan, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, macarons. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Macaron is the French word for macaroon, but are never the coconut-based cookie. Macarons are one of the most amazing pastries, with hundreds of flavors and fillings. Macarons are made from almond flour and meringue, with even the pros claiming to failure on a regular basis. Beat egg whites in the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with a whisk attachment until whites are foamy; beat in white sugar and continue beating until egg whites are glossy, fluffy, and hold soft peaks.
Macarons is one of the most popular of recent trending foods on earth. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions daily. They are fine and they look fantastic. Macarons is something that I have loved my whole life.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have macarons using 25 ingredients and 17 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Macarons:
- Get 200 Grams Caster Sugar
- Take 75 Millilitres Water
- Prepare 4 Egg whites
- Take 200 Grams Almond meal , sifted
- Prepare 200 Grams Icing sugar , sifted
- Prepare Gel food color of your choice
- Prepare 180 Grams Caster Sugar
- Get 1/2 Cup Water
- Make ready 3 Egg yolk
- Take 300 Grams Butter , unsalted , diced , softened
- Get 1 Mango , small sized , flesh pureed
- Take 100 Grams Blueberries
- Prepare 50 Grams Caster sugar
- Get Drop Almond essence
- Prepare 1/4 Cup Pistachios , finely chopped
- Prepare 100 Grams Raspberries
- Make ready 50 Grams Caster sugar
- Make ready 1 Teaspoon Lemon juice
- Prepare 1/2 Cup Corn flour
- Prepare 1 Cup Caster sugar
- Make ready 1/2 Cup Lemon juice
- Prepare 1 1/4 Cups Water
- Get 2 Teaspoons Lemon zest
- Take 3 Egg yolk
- Take 60 Grams Butter , unsalted , chopped
Read the full recipe after the video. Sift to remove any large pieces and to aerate the mixture. Separate the eggs and put the whites in the bowl you'll use to whip them. Don't start whipping yet, but add a pinch each of salt and cream of tartar (or Bakewell Cream).
Instructions to make Macarons:
- To make macaroons, preheat oven to 200C.
- Combine caster sugar and water in a small saucepan and simmer over low heat, stirring, for 8-10 minutes or until sugar dissolves. Heat sugar syrup until it reaches 118C (test using a sugar thermometer), brushing down sides with a wet pastry brush to avoid crystallisation.
- Meanwhile, using an electric mixer on medium speed, whisk 2 egg whites in a medium bowl until soft peaks form. Increase speed to high, then slowly add sugar syrup in a constant stream until combined. Set aside
- Combine almond meal and icing sugar in a medium stainless-steel bowl, then gradually add remaining unbeaten egg whites, mixing with a wooden spoon until the mixture is firm and paste-like
- Separate mixture into smaller bowls, depending on how many colours you want. Add desired food colouring to each bowl and combine well, then divide beaten egg whites evenly between each bowl and thoroughly combine. The mixtures should have a velvety texture
- Spoon coloured mixtures into piping bags fitted with a 1cm plain nozzle. Pipe mixture to make 3cm rounds on silicon-mat lined baking trays. Tap trays to flatten peaks and rest for 30 minutes or until mixture feels dry to touch and forms a skin
- Reduce oven temperature to 150C and place trays in oven. Bake for 15 minutes or until bases are firm and a macaroon can be lifted from the tray. Remove trays from oven and cool macaroons on tray
- To make buttercream, place sugar and water in a small saucepan over medium heat and stir for 8-10 minutes or until sugar dissolves. Brush sides of saucepan with a wet pastry brush to avoid crystallisation. Boil to 121C (test using a sugar thermometer
- Meanwhile, using an electric mixer on high speed, whisk egg yolks in a medium bowl until thick and pale. Reduce speed to medium and gradually pour in sugar syrup in a thin, steady stream. Whisk for 5 minutes, then
- Add butter 1 piece at a time and whisking after each addition, until combined. Divide mixture between 6 bowls to make the different flavoured fillings and leave for 15-20 minutes to cool completely
- For mango, add mango purée to buttercream to taste and mix thoroughly. For blueberry, add jam to buttercream and mix thoroughly. For pistachio, add a drop of essence to buttercream to taste
- To make raspberry coulis, place raspberries, sugar and lemon juice in a medium saucepan over low heat for 8-10 minutes or until sugar dissolves and mixture is smooth, then strain through a fine sieve into a small bowl and set aside to cool.
- When ready, add to buttercream, 1 tsp at a time, to taste.(make blueberry coulis on the heat in the same way
- To make lemon curd, combine cornflour and sugar in a medium saucepan over low heat, then gradually stir in lemon juice and water and stir until smooth. Cook for 3-5 minutes or until mixture boils and thickens.
- Remove from heat and stir in lemon zest, egg yolks and butter. Stir until melted. Cover with plastic wrap and cool to room temperature. When ready, add to buttercream, 1 tsp at a time, to taste
- To assemble, pipe mango filling between orange macaroons and blueberry filling between blue and purple macaroons. For pistachio filling, pipe between green macaroons, then roll sides in pistachios. Pipe raspberry filling between red and pink macaroons, lemon curd between yellow macaroons.
- Sandwich together and top blue macaroons with a blueberry, red and pink macaroons with a raspberry, using a little extra filling to secure
Separate the eggs and put the whites in the bowl you'll use to whip them. Don't start whipping yet, but add a pinch each of salt and cream of tartar (or Bakewell Cream). Macarons—not macaroons—have a reputation for being difficult to make. While they may not be the easiest cookie to prepare, they are definitely worth the challenge. With shells that are crispy outside and chewy inside sandwiching a sweet buttercream filling, these delightful French treats are a taste sensation.
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