Snickers Macarons
You're not you when you're hungry - so eat a Snickers Macaron.
Author: The Chef
Cuisine: American
Recipe type: Dessert
Ingredients
- Macarons
For the macaron shells:
- 300g almond flour
- 300g powdered sugar
- 110g liquefied egg whites (see below)
- 300g caster sugar
- 75g water
- 110g liquefied egg whites
- 2 tsp caramel flavouring
- 4 drops orange food gel
- 6 drops brown food gel
- Salted caramel sauce
- Chopped peanuts
- Ganache
- 500g dark chocolate
- 250ml thickened cream
Instructions
Ganache
- Add chocolate and cream into a large microwave safe bowl. Microwave for 20 seconds at a time, mixing each time until smooth. Cover with plastic wrap and set aside to set. Alternatively you may melt it using a double boiler. Fill a medium sized pot with ⅓ of the way with water. Bring to a boil. Place bowl with chocolate and cream over the top and gently mix until mixture is completely melted and smooth. To soften the ganache to spreading or piping consistency microwave for 10 seconds at a time, mixing each time with a large spatula until it reaches the right consistency. Allow to set at room temp.
Macarons
- Add half the icing sugar and almond flour into a food processor and process until well combined. Repeat with the other half. This will help get rid of any lumps in the sugar. Alternatively you may sift the two together. This must be done at least 3 times.
- Empty the almond mixture into a large mixing bowl, add the first portion of egg whites and mix until it forms a paste. Cover with plastic wrap and set aside.
- Add the sugar and water into a small saucepan. Give them a very gentle stir to get them mixed together. Bring to a boil on medium high heat, then turn down to a simmer. Add a candy thermometer to the pot to help you measure the temp of the syrup. As the syrup bubbles away it will splatter small bubbles of sugared water on the sides of the pot. Use a pastry brush dabbed in a little water to brush those back into the syrup. This will help prevent the syrup from crystallising. When the syrup reaches 115C, add the second portion of egg whites to the bowl of a stand mixer and start whisking them on medium/high speed to help break them apart and get them a little frothy.
- When the syrup reaches 118C, pour it over the egg whites in a slow and steady stream. Whisk to stiff peaks for about 6 min. Add the brown and orange food gel and caramel flavouring at about the 3 min point, whisk into the meringue for a couple of minutes. Stop the mixer and scrape down, then whisk for an extra couple of minutes. When you can turn the bowl over and the meringue doesn’t fall out, you know you’ve reached stiff peaks.
- Grab a spatula full of the meringue and fold it into the almond-sugar mixture, mix until well combined. This allows the mixture to thin out a little before you add the rest of the mixture. Then add the rest of the meringue and fold by going around the bowl with a spatula then through the middle (as demonstrated in the video). Continue folding until the batter gets thin enough that it drips off the spatula and falls in a ribbon. It should take about 10 seconds for the ribbon to disappear into the rest of the batter. That’s when you know the batter is ready to pipe.
- Spoon the batter into a piping bag with a round tip.
- Pipe rounds of batter about 3.5cm (1.38 inches) in diameter, spacing them 2cm apart on (flat) baking trays lined with baking parchment. Sprinkle with crushed peanuts.
- Gently tap the tray on the work surface covered with a kitchen cloth. Leave to stand for at least 30 minutes, until a skin forms on the shells. They shouldn’t be sticky when you touch them. It’s at this point that you can preheat a fan forced oven to 180C (360F)
- Bake for 12 minutes. If you feel your oven is causing the macarons to brown on one side (usually the side closest to the fan) turn the tray around about half way through baking. Once they’re baked, let them cool completely.
- Fit the end of a piping bag with a Wilton 6b piping tip and pipe a swirl of chocolate frosting on one macaron. Leave a hole in the centre and fill it with salted caramel sauce. Sandwich with another macaron.
Watch the recipe video here:
You're not you when you're hungry – so eat a Snickers Macaron.Taste for Yourself: https://taste.md/2s8Z41j?: The Scran Line
Posted by Tastemade on Saturday, May 26, 2018
