Homemade French Macarons
4.4
Ingredients
- Prep
- 20 min
- Cook
- 15 min
- Total
- 95 min
Instructions
- 1 Preheat the oven to 320 degrees F (160 degrees C). Line baking sheets with parchment paper or a silicone baking mat.
- 2 Whisk egg whites in a clean metal mixing bowl until thick, about 5 minutes. Whisk superfine sugar into egg whites until thick, glossy, and stiff peaks form, 5 to 8 minutes more.
- 3 Sift almond meal and confectioners' sugar over beaten egg whites; gently fold in, retaining as much air as possible.
- 4 Divide meringue into separate bowls to flavor and color, if desired.
- 5 Spoon meringue into a piping bag fitted with a 3/8-inch tip. Pipe 1-inch disks of meringue onto the prepared baking sheets, leaving about 2 inches between cookies.
- 6 Let cookies stand at room temperature to form a thin skin, about 15 minutes.
- 7 Lift the baking sheets; let drop from several inches above the work surface to adhere cookies to the baking sheets.
- 8 Bake in the preheated oven until tops are dry, about 15 minutes; let cool completely on the baking sheets before peeling off the parchment paper, about 45 minutes.
By crazymary98