How to Make Award-winning Macarons

Leon Brown   30/05/2020 14:54

Macarons
Macarons

Hello everybody, I hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, macarons. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

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Macarons is one of the most favored of current trending foods on earth. It is appreciated by millions every day. It’s easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. Macarons is something that I have loved my entire life. They’re fine and they look wonderful.

To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have macarons using 25 ingredients and 17 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Macarons:
  1. Get Caster Sugar
  2. Make ready Water
  3. Take Egg whites
  4. Get Almond meal , sifted
  5. Take Icing sugar , sifted
  6. Make ready Gel food color of your choice
  7. Take Caster Sugar
  8. Take Water
  9. Make ready Egg yolk
  10. Make ready Butter , unsalted , diced , softened
  11. Take Mango , small sized , flesh pureed
  12. Get Blueberries
  13. Take Caster sugar
  14. Take Almond essence
  15. Prepare Pistachios , finely chopped
  16. Make ready Raspberries
  17. Make ready Caster sugar
  18. Get Lemon juice
  19. Make ready Corn flour
  20. Get Caster sugar
  21. Take Lemon juice
  22. Make ready Water
  23. Take Lemon zest
  24. Make ready Egg yolk
  25. Take Butter , unsalted , chopped
Instructions to make Macarons:
  1. To make macaroons, preheat oven to 200C.
  2. 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.
  3. 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
  4. 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
  5. 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
  6. 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
  7. 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
  8. 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
  9. 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
  10. 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
  11. 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
  12. 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.
  13. When ready, add to buttercream, 1 tsp at a time, to taste.(make blueberry coulis on the heat in the same way
  14. 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.
  15. 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
  16. 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.
  17. Sandwich together and top blue macaroons with a blueberry, red and pink macaroons with a raspberry, using a little extra filling to secure

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