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French Macaroons

French Macaroons
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Try your hand at these pretty and delicious French desserts.

Ingredients

  • 2 cups sliced almonds
  • 1 1/2 cups icing sugar, sifted
  • 3 large egg whites
  • 3/4 tsp salt
  • 3 tbsp sugar
  • Food coloring paste – pink and green
  • Crushed pink peppercorns, and chopped pistachios, as garnish
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Method

  1. In a food processor, puree almonds with ½ cup icing sugar until very fine and pour into a bowl. Stir in remaining 1 cup icing sugar.
  2. Whip egg whites with salt in a clean bowl until foamy, then add sugar and continue to whip until whites hold a stiff peak. Stir almonds into whipped whites in 2 additions. Add food colouring in small amounts (and split macaroon batter into smaller bowls if you wish to add a variety of colours). Spoon batter into a piping bag fitted with a ½-inch plain tip, and pipe batter into ¾-inch “kisses” onto a parchment-lined baking tray, leaving an inch between each macaroon. Top pink macaroons with a little sprinkle of crushed pink peppercorns and green macaroons with chopped pistachios. Let macaroons sit to dry for 20 minutes.
  3. In the meantime, preheat oven to 300 °F. Bake macaroons for about 20 minutes, rotating pan halfway through cooking, until edges and tops of macaroons are visibly dry but not browned. Let macaroons cool on tray before removing.
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Makes about 3 dozen

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