{"id":1091,"date":"2011-07-24T21:35:12","date_gmt":"2011-07-25T02:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oliviaskitchen.net\/?p=1091"},"modified":"2011-08-02T22:45:30","modified_gmt":"2011-08-03T03:45:30","slug":"french-macaroons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oliviaskitchen.net\/?p=1091","title":{"rendered":"French Macaroons"},"content":{"rendered":"

Never in my life had i so much trouble making cookies !! Seriously .. these little suckers are pretty , but they’re among the hardest cookies i ever had to make !! I remember the first time i made them was about a year ago , and that too took several attempts to get it right . I never had them ,\u00a0 i never made them , they’re not so popular among the Midwest i guess .. unless you live in the city .. i know for sure the bakeries around the suburb don’t sell these kind of cookies LOL<\/p>\n

So since yesterday i’ve been struggling with these cookies . I’ve got everything on hand , but then problem occured , obviously , because the ‘ feet ‘ the cookies supposed to have was never showed up . Okay there it went the first batch .. although it was edible , the first batch was gone within hours , snacked by my son . I also made it quite small , so it’s like 1 bite and it’s gone .<\/p>\n

That night i decided to make another batch .. yes i was crazy . And this time , i broke my sifter .. LOL , had to run to the closest bed and beyond to get myself a new sifter . Okay .. so the 2nd batch , was slightly better .. i didn’t say it’s good , but i made an improvement , there was the feet .. and no cracks on the top shell . Although the feet wasn’t the one i really expected . This was how it looks like ..<\/p>\n

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I wasn’t quite satisfied with it , so i told myself , we’re making another batch tomorrow morning . Well i ran out of parchment paper , so i had to wait til afternoon , to make them . So this afternoon i made another batch .. and i was quite happy with the result , it could have been better , but .. the feet showed up and you can see it looks better than the 2nd batch . I am going to make another batch of these sometime this week again .. hopefully by then i will master this sucker !! My sister who is a pastry chef said that even the professional chef doesn’t always get it right .. That makes me feel better LOL ..<\/p>\n

Alright .. so these are the 3rd batch and i think it’s almost perfect .. ALMOST .. not quite there yet ..<\/p>\n

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This is the recipe that i used :<\/p>\n

200 grams of almond meal<\/p>\n

200 grams of powdered sugar<\/p>\n

200 grams of sugar<\/p>\n

50 grams of water<\/p>\n

150 grams egg whites , about 4 large eggs<\/p>\n

1. Pulse together in a food processor almond meal and powdered sugar for few times . Then sift them . Set aside .<\/p>\n

2. Beat 75 grams of egg whites in a mixer bowl , until soft peaks .Meanwhile , cook the sugar and water to\u00a0 become syrup , about 245 F , and then once the syrup consistency is reached , pour into the mixer bowl with the egg whites , medium speed , keep beating until stiff peaks reached , about 10 minutes , should be glossy and stiff .<\/p>\n

3. Add the other 75 gram of egg whites into the almond sugar mixture , mix well . Then add the meringue into the almond mixture . Fold it carefully , so it would not deflate .<\/p>\n

4. Pour batter into the pastry bag and pipe onto parchment paper lined baking sheet , bake at 375 F for 1 minute then turn it down to 325 F for 10 minutes , rotating halfway through , bake 1 sheet at a time . ( Stack 2 baking sheet together )<\/p>\n

Good luck !<\/p>\n

Update , August 2nd<\/p>\n

I made another attempt to perfect my macaroons , okay , the previous one , almost made it perfect , but that one used italian meringue technique , and tonight , i made it with french meringue technique , which less mess and i was almost sure , that it would turn out pretty this time .. Well .. half way t hrough the baking time , i realized i forgot to double the baking sheet .. causing the shells to crack .. although some of them have the feet , but not all of them , and ones that don’t have feet are cracking badly .. only 20% of the batch turned out pretty okay .. after i rushed and doubled the baking sheet when it was half way baking !!<\/p>\n

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Never in my life had i so much trouble making cookies !! Seriously .. these little suckers are pretty , but they’re among the hardest cookies i ever had to make !! I remember the first time i made them was about a year ago , and that too took several attempts to get it right . I never had them ,\u00a0 i never made them , they’re not so popular among the Midwest i guess .. unless you live in the city .. i know for sure the bakeries around the suburb don’t sell these kind of cookies LOL So since yesterday i’ve been struggling with these cookies . I’ve got everything on hand , but then problem occured , obviously , because the ‘ feet ‘ the cookies supposed to have was never showed up . Okay there it went the first batch .. although it was edible , the first batch was gone within hours , snacked by my son . I also made it quite small , so it’s like 1 bite and it’s gone . That night i decided to make another batch .. yes i was crazy . And this time , i broke my sifter .. LOL , had to run to the closest bed and beyond to get myself a new sifter . Okay .. so the 2nd batch , was slightly better .. i didn’t say it’s good , but i made an improvement , there was the feet .. and no cracks on the top shell . Although the feet wasn’t the one i really expected . This was how it looks like .. I wasn’t quite satisfied with it , so i told myself , we’re making another batch tomorrow morning . Well i ran out of parchment paper , so i had to wait til afternoon , to make them . So this afternoon i made another batch .. and i was quite happy with the result , it could have been better , but .. the feet showed up and you can see it looks better than the 2nd batch . I am going to make another batch of these sometime this week again .. hopefully by then i will master this sucker !! My sister who is a pastry chef said that even the professional chef doesn’t always get it right .. That makes me feel better LOL .. Alright .. so these are the 3rd batch and i think it’s almost perfect .. ALMOST .. not quite there yet .. This is the recipe that i used : 200 grams of almond meal 200 grams of powdered sugar 200 grams of sugar 50 grams of water 150 grams egg whites , about 4 large eggs 1. Pulse together in a food processor almond meal and powdered sugar for few times . Then sift them . Set aside . 2. Beat 75 grams of egg whites in a mixer bowl , until soft peaks .Meanwhile , cook the sugar and water to\u00a0 become syrup , about 245 F , and then once the syrup consistency is reached , pour into the mixer bowl with the egg whites , medium speed , keep beating until stiff peaks reached , about 10 minutes , should be glossy and stiff . 3. Add the other 75 gram of egg whites into the almond sugar mixture , mix well . Then add the meringue into the almond mixture . Fold it carefully , so it would not deflate . 4. Pour batter into the pastry bag and pipe onto parchment paper lined baking sheet , bake at 375 F for 1 minute then turn it down to 325 F for 10 minutes , rotating halfway through , bake 1 sheet at a time . ( Stack 2 baking sheet together ) Good luck ! Update , August 2nd I made another attempt to perfect my macaroons , okay , the previous one , almost made it perfect , but that one used italian meringue technique , and tonight , i made it with french meringue technique , which less mess and i was almost sure , that it would turn out pretty this time .. Well .. half way t hrough the baking time , i realized i forgot to double the baking sheet .. causing the shells to crack .. although some of them have the feet , but not all of them , and ones that don’t have feet are cracking badly .. only 20% of the batch turned out pretty okay .. after i rushed and doubled the baking sheet when it was half way baking !!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food-desserts","category-desserts-recipes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oliviaskitchen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oliviaskitchen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oliviaskitchen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oliviaskitchen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oliviaskitchen.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1091"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.oliviaskitchen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1115,"href":"https:\/\/www.oliviaskitchen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1091\/revisions\/1115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oliviaskitchen.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oliviaskitchen.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oliviaskitchen.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}