Nut-Free French Macarons
- 3/4 cup finely ground Honey Stars cereal
- 1 cup icing sugar
- 1/4 icing sugar
- 3 egg whites
- 1 pinch salt
- Preheat oven to exactly 150C.
- Sift the dry ingredients together.
- Discard the rougher bits of cereal.
- Put the ingredients for the meringue into a bowl and beat using an electric mixer until it is so stiff that you can turn the bowl upside down and see no movement.
- This will take about 10-12 minutes depending on your mixer.
- If you are using any colouring or flavouring, add to the meringue now and beat for a couple more minutes.
- You should colour it stronger because the colour will fade while baking.
- Sift the dry ingredients into the meringue and fold until incorporated, turning the bowl as you do so.
- (The folding motion is important: scrape the sides and bottom and turn it towards the middle.)
- Be careful not to overmix or undermix the batter, or the Macarons will not turn out nice.
- The end product should be smooth and not runny (lift the spoon up and check if the batter is still thick.
- The ribbon should sink slowly into the batter).
- Pipe circles of batter onto a cookie sheet lined with non-stick baking parchment, spaced well apart.
- Rap firmly on counter several times to let the macarons set (this will prevent it from getting cracked.
- Note that the circles will spread slightly when you rap it on the counter, so make sure you have enough space reserved between the circles.
- ), then leave on counter for twenty minutes or so until they form a soft crust.
- Bake in preheated oven for 20 minutes or until the Macarons come off the paper easily.
- Pair even sized Macarons together.
- Add a dollop of your favourite filling (Nutella, jam, chocolate ganache etc) and sandwich together.
- I used caramel buttercream.
- Serve warm or keep in refrigerator :)
cereal, icing sugar, icing sugar, egg whites, salt
Taken from cookpad.com/us/recipes/365682-nut-free-french-macarons (may not work)