French Macaroons

Ingredients

• Almond meal 250 gm
• Icing sugar 430 gm
• Egg whites 200 gm
• Caster sugar 60 gm
• Salt a small pinch
• Cocoa powder 2 tbsp or gel edible color (pink or any desired)
• For Ganache:
• Cream 30 gm
• Chocolate 100 gm

• Cooking Directions

  1. Pre heat oven at mark 3, line parchment paper on cookie tray and draw 2 inch circles with the help of pencil on distance.
  2. Sift almond meal, icing sugar and salt twice.
  3. Beat egg whites till frothy add caster sugar and beat with electric beater for 10 mins.
  4. Add cocoa powder or gel color, mix and beat more.
  5. Fold sifted almond meal, icing sugar and salt into egg mixture it will take 40-50 folds to for smooth creamy batter.
  6. Fill piping bag with this mixture and pipe on lined tray circles.
  7. Bake them for 20 minutes.
  8. For Ganache Filling:Put cream into pan add chocolate, cook till chocolate melts.
  9. Remove and keep a side on room temperature till cool and thicken into creamy.
  10. Now fill this ganache into piping bag and pipe on baked macaroon put another piece of macaroon to make sandwich.