Easy Macarons Recipe

Easy Macarons Recipe

Macaron Recipe Ingredients & Utensils

• 4 large egg whites (or 5 small) 140g 
• 70g caster sugar 
• 230g pure icing sugar 
• 120g almond ground 
• 2g salt (tiny pinch)
• gel/powdered food colouring (optional)
• Non-stick baking paper
• Piping bag
• Electric mixer (optional)

French Macaron Recipe Instructions

• Preheat the oven to 150°C

• Place egg whites and caster sugar in a bowl and mix with electric mixer until stiff enough to turn the bowl upside down without it falling out, continue to whip for 1-2 more minutes. How long this takes will depend on you mixer. Add gel or powdered food colouring and continue to mix for a further 20 seconds.

• Sift the almond meal and icing sugar and salt twice, discarding any almond lumps that are too big to pass through the sieve. Fold into the egg white mixture. It should take roughly 30-50 folds using a rubber spatula. The mixture should be smooth and a very viscous, not RUNNY. Over-mix and your macarons will be flat and have no foot, under mix and they will not be smooth on top 

• Pipe onto trays lined with baking paper, rap trays on the bench firmly (this prevents cracking)

Try rapping the trays on the bench harder or more times before cooking.

• and then bake in the oven for 20 minutes (Fanned oven heat). Check if one comes off the tray fairly cleanly, if not bake for a little longer (make sure you are using NON-stick baking paper or they will stick).

Voila!