Macaroons - a traditional French multi-colored macaroon. There are several recipes for baking this delicious treat.
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You will need
- For cookies:
- - 400 g of powdered sugar;
- - 6 egg whites;
- - 1 drop of food coloring (green, yellow, brown, pink);
- - 250 g of ground almonds;
- - salt;
- For cream:
- - 1 tbsp. a spoonful of cream;
- - 240 g butter;
- - 1 teaspoon of strawberry jam;
- - 350 g of powdered sugar (sand);
- - 1 teaspoon of cocoa;
- - 1 teaspoon of pistachios;
- - 1 teaspoon of lemon peel;
- - 1 teaspoon of vanilla;
Instruction manual
1
Beat whites until lush foam, add icing sugar and beat until smooth. Loan add ground almonds, mix gently.
2
Divide the mass into 4 parts by adding a drop of different food coloring to each part.
After filling the syringe (bag), put the cookies on a baking sheet previously covered with wax paper.
Allow the cookies to stand for 30 minutes until the top of the cookies solidifies slightly. Bake for 15 minutes at a temperature of 170 ° C degrees. Cool the finished cookies on a baking sheet.
3
Prepare a cream: whip the softened butter with icing sugar, add vanilla, cream.
Divide the cream into 4 equal parts and prepare 4 types of filling: in the first part add 1 teaspoon of jam, in the second - ground pistachios, in the third - lemon zest, and in the fourth - cocoa.
4
Collect two-layer cookies: make pink macaroons with a layer of strawberry cream, green with a pistachio, brown with cocoa cream, and yellow with a lemon layer.
Useful advice
It is very important that the cookies are the same size, as they are assembled from two halves. Therefore, it is better to first draw circles of the same diameter on wax paper and squeeze the dough onto them without leaving the outline.