French Chocolate Macarons

Enjoy the most delicate and delicious homemade French chocolate macarons. Out of below ingredients you can make around 25 macarons.

Ingredients:Macaron Batter

Icing Sugar – 125g
Powdered Almonds – 50g
Cocoa Powder – 25g
Egg Whites – 65g
Pinch of Salt
Granulated Sugar – 75g

Ingredients:Chocolate Ganache Filling

Whipping Cream – 120g
Finely Chopped Chocolate – 120g

How to cook:

Sieve icing sugar powdered almond and cocoa powder together. If you feel like your almond is not powdered enough grind all these ingredients together few minutes before sieving.

After that add a pinch of salt into egg whites and beat until they become foamy.

Thereafter, gradually add sugar and beat until peaks foam.

When egg whites are ready gradually add prepared dry ingredients into this.

Put the mixture into a piping bag with ½ inch plain tip. This way it is very easy to make macaron shells.

Pipe the batter into 1 inch size circles. Make sure you keep 1 inch space apart.

Then tap the baking tray few times to remove air bubbles if there’s any. Allow this to sit for 20-30 mins until a skin forms.

After that we can bake this around 10-15 mins under 200C in a pre-heated oven.

When macaron shells are completely cool down remove them from the baking sheet.

To make the chocolate ganache filling, melt chocolate and whipping cream together. This chocolate ganache needs to be completely cool down before using.

After that, fill macaron shells with chocolate ganache and sandwich them together. Select similar sized shells to sandwich.

Let them stand at least one day before serving to blend the flavors.

Enjoy