Hello everybody, I hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, french macarons. One of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
French Macarons is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods in the world. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It is simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. French Macarons is something that I have loved my whole life. They’re fine and they look wonderful.
Remove tray and let macarons cool completely; repeat with remaining trays. Once macarons have cooled completely, remove from parchment. This is the best recipe for classic French macarons.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook french macarons using 12 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make French Macarons:
- Prepare Macaron Cookie Shells:
- Get confectioners sugar
- Prepare finely ground blanched almond flour
- Get large egg whites, at room temperature
- Prepare granulated sugar
- Make ready Filling Options:
- Get ·buttercream frosting
- Make ready ·chocolate ganache
- Make ready ·fruit jam
- Make ready ·cream cheese frosting
- Get ·nutella
- Take ·lemon curd
It's extremely important to weigh each ingredient. And it's even more important to complete each step with the proper technique. It took me several months of continuous practice to learn the basics and perfect the technique. The tops should be crisp and the macarons should have formed their signature crinkly "feet." Allow to cool completely on the baking sheet before filling.
Instructions to make French Macarons:
- Begin by separating the eggs. This is easier to do when the egg is cold, so separate the yolks from the whites and then let the whites sit out for an hour or so to come to room temperature. Line 2-3 baking trays with either parchment paper or silicone baking mats and set them aside. Use a fine mesh sieve over a medium bowl to sift the confectioners sugar and the almond flour, then set that aside.
- Using a stand mixer fitted with the whisk attachment or a hand mixer, beat the egg whites on low speed until they become frothy. Then, with the mixer still running, gradually add in the granulated sugar. Increase speed to high and continue to mix until stiff peaks form. If using food coloring, add in a couple of drops of gel food coloring at this time.
- Add the sifted dry mixture to the whipped egg whites. Then use a rubber spatula to very gently fold the batter together. Once the ingredients are incorporated in, continue to fold until the batter slowly runs off the spatula…as the batter falls off of it back into the bowl, it should briefly hold its shape before sinking into the batter. It's important not to undermix or overmix, as both will result in the cookies not coming out right.
- Prepare a piping bag with a round top and place the batter into it. Pipe circles about 1 1/2 inch to 2 inches wide about 1 inch apart from each other on the prepared baking sheets. Try to be as consistent as you can with the sizes. Once done piping, tap the sheets 3 or 4 times against a hard countertop or table. This will release air bubbles from the piped batter.
- Let the piped batter sit out for 15 minutes and up to 1 hour, until a "skin" develops. When you can touch the piped batter and your finger comes away dry, they are ready to be baked. Preheat the oven to 300°F.
- Bake them for 7 minutes, then rotate the pan and bake for 7 minutes more, or until they release easily from the parchment. Bake 1 batch at a time. They should have risen up slightly and developed a crinkly bottom, called "feet". Transfer them very carefully onto a cooling rack to cool completely.
- When they are cooled completely, match up couples that are similar in size. Place a small amount of whatever filling you'd like to use onto the bottom center of half of the cookies. Then gently twist an unfilled cookie shell over the top of a filled one, to make a macaron. The cookies are delicate, so be careful not to crack the shells.
- That's it! You are finally done and ready to enjoy your macarons. Store these wrapped tightly in the fridge for 3-4 days. Allow them to come up to room temperature before serving.
- For these pictured, I colored them with 2 drops of red gel food coloring and I just filled them with a basic vanilla buttercream frosting: 1 stick softened butter, 2 1/2 cups confectioners sugar, 1 tsp vanilla extract, a pinch of salt and anywhere from 2-4 tbsp of heavy cream. Beat the butter using a hand mixer until soft and creamy, then beat in the rest of the ingredients until it reaches your desired consistency. Place in a piping bag and pipe onto the macaron shells.
Fill* and sandwich two shells together to form an iconic French macaron cookie! A macaron and macaroon are two totally different pastries. Because of the similar spelling, the two have been mistakenly used interchangeably in the last few years. Continue beating until the meringue is smooth, glossy, and forms soft peaks. Fold in the almond flour/sugar until everything is evenly combined, then start stirring.
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