Raspberry-Chocolate French Macaroons
| Preparation: | 30 min |
| Marinating/Waiting: | 10 min |
| Cooking: | 15 min |
| Total: | 55 min |
servings
| Category: | Desserts |
| Subcategory: | Pastries/Treats |
| Source: | Académie Culinaire |
Recipe ingredients
- Macaroons
- 5 oz. (140 g) ground almonds
- 9 oz. (250 g) icing sugar
- 5 egg whites*
- 2 oz. (60 g) fine sugar*
- 1 – 2 drops red food colouring
- Filling
- 4½ oz. (125 g) raspberry purée
- 1 Tbsp. (15 mL) raspberry alcohol (optional)
- 6 oz. (175 g) dark chocolate*
- 2½ oz. (75 g) unsalted butter*
Preparation
Macaroons
Preheat oven to 260°F (125°C).
In a bowl, combine ground almonds and icing sugar, then reduce to a fine powder in the food processor. Sift and set aside.
In the bowl of a mixer fitted with the whisk attachment, beat egg whites at high speed into stiff peaks. Add sugar gradually, then food colouring and continue mixing for about a minute to melt sugar into the meringue.
Transfer the meringue to a large bowl and gradually fold in the almond-sugar mixture. Do not overwork the mixture or the meringue will collapse.
Line a baking sheet with parchment paper. Using a pastry bag with a 1¼-in. (3-cm) tip, pipe 72 regularly spaced disks.
Bake for about 15 minutes. When done, the meringues should easily peel off the parchment paper.
Cool completely.
Filling
In a pan, bring raspberry purée and alcohol to a boil.
Break chocolate up in a bowl. Pour hot raspberry purée and alcohol over it and let rest 1 minute without stirring.
Using a rubber spatula, stir until mixture is shiny. Then stir in butter.
Let rest to gel.
To make the macaroons, put 1 Tbsp. (15 mL) filling on the flat side of a meringue and top with another meringue.
Suggestion
Other flavoursMatcha green tea macaroons
Add 1 tsp. (5 mL) matcha green tea powder to the almond-sugar mixture. Use dark chocolate ganache for the filling.
Maple-chocolate macaroons
Replace ¾ oz. (20 g) of the ground almonds with ¾ oz. (20 g) cocoa powder. For the filling, whip 1 cup (250 mL) cream with 3 Tbsp. (45 mL) maple butter.
* We recommend Selection and Irresistibles products.
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