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Basic French Macarons

French macarons are variety of sandwich cookie based on almond meringue and a sweet filling.

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France

Known as a French recipe, with similar versions prepared across other nations.

Ingredients 6 ingredients

  1. 125 g icing sugar
  2. 125 g almond flour
  3. 125 g white superfine sugar
  4. 90 g (3 ea.) egg whites
  5. Food coloring (concentrated variety)
  6. Filling as desired (see notes)

Cook safely

Keep children and pets away from the hob and the oven, and keep oven gloves and a lid within reach.

  • Oven and hot trays. Use dry oven gloves for trays and dishes: a hot tray looks just like a cold one. Open the oven door away from your face and let the first rush of heat out.

Method

  1. Combine the almond flour and icing sugar. Sift to remove lumps, and set aside.
  2. Add the superfine sugar to the egg whites, and whip them to stiff peaks.
  3. Add the food coloring to the egg whites and continue beating until incorporated.
  4. Use a wooden spoon or rubber spatula to fold the almond flour mixture into the meringue in 3 batches. Mix until you get a lava-like batter (see notes).
  5. Transfer the batter to a pastry bag fitted with an 8 mm round nozzle. Pipe 3 cm rounds on a baking sheet lined with baking paper.
  6. Tap the sheet lightly on your work surface to even and flatten the mixture. Leave to air-dry for 30 minutes until a film forms on the surface of the cookies.
  7. Bake for 12 minutes at 150°C with convection.
  8. Remove from the oven and let cool completely. It's a good idea to move the parchment onto a cooling rack to avoid carryover cooking.
  9. Peel the shells from the parchment, and sort them into pairs of equally sized shells.
  10. Sandwich the cookies together with your desired filling.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Baking tray
  • Whisk
  • Vegetable peeler
  • Wooden spoon
  • Spatula
  • Sieve
Source CC-BY-SA-4.0
Credit

"Basic French Macarons" from the Wikibooks Cookbook (https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cookbook:Basic_French_Macarons, revision 4516752), by its contributors (https://en.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?title=Cookbook:Basic_French_Macarons&action=history), licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).

Revision 4516752

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