How to make Macaron cookies yourself?

2024 Author: Isabella Gilson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:14

Macaron cookies are a homemade dessert made from egg whites, powdered sugar and almond crumbs, and filled with a special cream. Such an unusual delicacy is especially popular in France. Its history of origin dates back to the Middle Ages. Then the inhabitants of the mentioned state began to make a very tasty and sweet soup with almonds, as well as small pieces of dough, called "macaroni". In the future, the recipe for this first dish was transformed into cookies. "Macaron" - that's what it is called today. We will present several options for preparing this delicacy. Which one to choose is up to you.

Making "Macaron" (cookies): recipe and photo of a French dessert

To make this French delicacy, we need:

• almonds, peeled from brown films - about 130 g;
• powdered sugar - approximately 220 g;
• egg whites –from 4 large country eggs;
• granulated sugar, not too coarse - about 60 g;
• cocoa powder - about 20 g (use as desired and taste).

Preparation of the air base

To make Macaron cookies the way the French do it, you should thoroughly knead the base. To do this, peeled almonds from brown films must be rinsed and dried in a microwave oven. Next, the nut should be ground to a powder state using a coffee grinder. After that, the resulting almond flour must be sifted through a sieve along with powdered sugar. If desired, a little cocoa can be added to this mixture. Thanks to this, you can get not white, but chocolate French macarons.

After the bulk mass is ready, you need to beat the egg whites vigorously until stable peaks form. Next, add regular sugar to them and beat a little again.

After getting a persistent sweet foam, egg whites must be mixed with almond flour so that in the end you get an airy and tender mass.

Shaping and heat treatment in the oven

To make amazingly beautiful and no less tasty Macaron cookies, the resulting base must be put into a culinary syringe, and then squeezed onto baking paper in the form of circles. Next, the products must be placed in the oven and baked for about ¼ hour at a temperature of up to 165-180 degrees. At the end, the French Macaron cookies must be carefully removed from the sheet and completelycool.

Necessary products for filling

What do you need to do to make a real French delicacy "Macaron"? Cookies, the recipe of which was invented by the French, will be as they should, only in combination with a special cream. To prepare it, we need:

• cream as fat and thick as possible - about 80 ml;
• bitter chocolate - large bar (100g).

Making cream

To make a ganache for delicious and tender French cookies, put heavy and heavy cream in a bowl and then heat in a water bath. After the dairy product becomes hot, you need to add broken dark chocolate to it. After mixing the components with a large spoon, it is necessary to achieve a uniform mass. Next, the cream should be removed from the water bath and cool completely. It is better to do this in the refrigerator during the day.

Shaping a delicious and beautiful French delicacy

After the cream has cooled and become viscous, put it in a cooking syringe, and then gently squeeze it onto one of the baked treats. Next, the dessert with the filling needs to be covered with a second cookie and pressed lightly. It is necessary to carry out the described actions with all the remaining products.

Serve ready macaron biscuits preferably with cappuccino or some other hot drink. Bon appetit!

Another version of French dessert

The basis for such a delicacy is always prepared the same way. However, if desired, it can still be changed, especially if this dessert is prepared for children. So, some housewives add not cocoa powder to the almond-protein mass, but some kind of bright food coloring. Thanks to this, Macaron cookies, the photo of which you can see in this article, turn out to be incredibly beautiful and appetizing.

After the bright base is mixed, it should be divided into two parts and poured into different not too deep forms. Thus, after baking, you should get two identical layers that need to be cooled in cold air.

Cooking stuffing

If you decide to make non-standard and bright French cookies, then it is recommended to fill it not with dark chocolate ganache, but with milk. For this we need:

• cream as fat and thick as possible - about 70 ml;
• white chocolate - large bar (90 g).

Cooking method

White cream for dessert "Macaron" is prepared in the same way as chocolate. To do this, heavy cream must be heated in a water bath, and then melt a white sweet bar in them and mix everything thoroughly. Next, the ganache should be cooled in the refrigerator.

We form a bright delicacy and serve it to the table

Milk ganache should be spread over one of the baked almond sheets, and then immediately covered with a second layer. Pressing the products together, soak them in the refrigerator for seventeen minutes, and then remove andcut into neat diamonds. After that, bright French cookies must be laid out on a plate and presented to the household along with freshly brewed unsweetened tea or hot chocolate. Bon appetit!