Macrons

Macarons v.4 – Chocolate!

By l.martin, on March 23rd, 2011 Leave a comment   Macarons

So to follow on from my post from last weekend, I seem to be getting the hang of these macarons. It’s seems to be a very personal thing which depends on your oven, baking trays, how well your blender can grind almonds and so on and so on.

I used the same calculations as the last post to get the ingredients right, and for this batch of 80g of egg whites, I used the following:

Macaron shells

80g egg white 104g almonds 128g icing sugar 64g castor sugar 1.5 tbs cocoa powder

Ganache filling

150g dark chocolate 190ml double cream

The method again is the same as for version 3:

Grind almonds and icing sugar together to a fine powder and sieve . . . →Macarons v.4 – Chocolate!

Macarons attempt 1, 2 and 3

By l.martin, on March 20th, 2011 3 comments   Macarons

I’m a little nervous to jump on the macaron bandwagon; there are so many people making them with such skill that I can’t possibly compete. But it does annoy me when there is something that I know I can’t do, so over time I decided to have a go.

Part 1

My first attempt was based on Dan Lepard’s recipe in the Guardian, a good start as it’s a fairly simple macaron. I couldn’t find the powdered egg white required so at Dan’s suggestion I cracked the whites into a bowl and left uncovered in the fridge overnight to dry out a little. Once I had made and piped the macarons, I left them to form a crust with the help of a fan. This, I had read, should help that shiny crust on the shell develop and let the macaron foot pop out.

The recipe produced a good tasting macaron that looked basically . . . →Macarons attempt 1, 2 and 3

About Me

I love food; cooking it, eating it and having prentious and mildly competative conversations about it. I also play guitar and enjoy the occasional glass of wine or seven.

Based in Tilburg, NL, this blog follows my adventures in food and cooking, trying to eat well in a land where you can buy a horse paste sausage from a vending machine.

For quality suppliers in and around the Tilburg area, see my page on Suppliers.

CHICKEN AND RED WINE?

Click here for my post on roast chicken and red wine

Twitter
 Facebook