2012-11-27

macarons with chocolate ganache

I have received my first order of macarons! One of my friends works in a small cozy store that soon will have an event for their customers and I have been asked to bake for it. Great fun but a bit scary, I have not fully succeeded with my macarons recently. I think I'm a little bit coward in baking them and therefore all of them dont want come off my silicon mold, maybe I should try some different recipes from the one that I have followed in recent times.

Macarons with chocolate ganache

Macarons
115 g almond flour
230g icing sugar
144 g of egg white
72g caster sugar
seeds from 1 vanilla pod
½ tsp salt

Grind the almonds and icing sugar together in a food processor or, if you use almond flour, sift the almond meal and icing sugar in a bowl.

Whisk the egg whites in a large bowl until soft peaks form. Whisk in caster sugar, salt and vanilla seeds so that it becomes a thick and glossy meringue batter.

Fold in the almond mixture (about one-third at a time) into the meringue batter with a spatula. When all the dry ingredients have been mixed in properly, continue to divide and fold the meringue mixture until batter is thick and shiny with a bit chewy texture.
Pour the meringue mixture into a spun or plastic bag fitted with a 1 cm wide tip around the nozzle. Pipe out on parchment paper, or do as I do and invest in a macaron mold made of silicone, it has given me much better results. Tap with your hand over the baking sheet so that any air bubbles in the macarons disappear. Let stand at room temperature for 30 minutes and heat the oven to 150 degrees C.
Bake for 10-15 minutes. Let the macarons cool for about 10 minutes and remove them from the baking paper.


Chocolate ganache
100 g dark chocolate
1/4 cup of heavy cream
10 g butter

Melt the chocolate with the cream in a sauce pan on low heat. When the chocolate has melted and you have a smooth batter, take the sauce pan of the heat and stir in the butter. Let it cool in the refrigerator until it has solidified into a consistency that you can work with.


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