Macaroon Recipe

Macaroon Recipe

Ingredients

1kg Icing sugar

550g Ground almonds
550g Fresh egg white
150g Caster sugar

Method 

Pre-heat oven to 170ºc

Sieve the icing sugar and ground almond together. Whisk the egg whites and the sugar together. Fold the icing sugar and almonds into the egg whites until well mixed then pipe onto silicone paper.  Sprinkle with nibbed almonds and rest for 1 hour, bake till just coloured.

The macaroons can be sandwiched together with jam, ganache or a flavoured butter cream.

The recipe above is a pretty basic recipe, and you could always add colours with food colouring to your mix to give your macaroons a great colourful look. The colouring should not change the taste of the macaroon at all, and I would recommend adding the colour to your whipped egg white mix before you add it to the almonds. Make sure the egg whites have been whipped prior to you adding the colour

Places to buy macaroons

Ladurée has to be by far the shopping destination if you are as crazy about Macaroons as I am. Recently we took a trip to Paris and stopped in at Ladurée to buy some macaroons to bring home with us. The flavors, choices, and colours are all amazing. There’s licorice, chestnut, strawberry and mint. It is an experience in itself just being in Paris and buying these culinary delights. Nothing compares.

There are a few stores open now in London, and a lot more stores around the world. If you happen to pass one, stop, go inside, and let the experience run away with you