Chocolate Macarons
A delicious, easy-to-make macaroons with chocolate.
Servings: 10 people
Calories: 130kcal
Ingredients
For Macarons Shells
- 1/2 cup Almond
- 3 tbsp Cocoa powder
- 1 cup Sugar
- 2 Eggs
- 5 tbsp Castor Sugar
For Chocolate Filling
- 150 g Chocolate
- 1/2 cup Cream
- 1 tbsp Butter
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350ºF (180ºC).
- In a medium bowl, sift together almond flour, powdered sugar, and cocoa powder.
- In a large bowl, beat the egg whites on medium speed until foamy.
- Slowly add sugar one tablespoon at a time.
- Increase the speed to medium-high and beat until hard peaks form.
- Fold the dry ingredients, in two batches, into the beaten egg whites with a rubber spatula.
- Pour the batter into a pastry bag.
- Pipe about a spoonful of batter onto the baking paper at regular intervals. Set aside for 15 minutes.
- Bake the macarons in the oven for 13 minutes. Remove from the oven and cool.
- In a small saucepan heat the cream.
- When the cream just begins to boil at the edges, remove from heat and pour over the chopped chocolate.Stir in the butter.
- Cool the ganache in the fridge to thicken.
- Add a teaspoon of chocolate filling on the flat side of a macaron, take a second macaron and put it on the filling.
