Classic Macaroons - A Very Simple Recipe

Kitchen appliances and utensils: refrigerator, kitchen oven, baking tray, tack, silicone spatula, sieve, kitchen scales, bowl, knife, parchment paper, deep plate for serving the product.

Ingredients

Step cooking

Preparation of raw materials and ingredients

1. Cut the chilled butter (100 g) into small pieces with a knife. If you have nowhere to buy almond flour, then you can take almond nut and chop it thoroughly in a blender or in a meat grinder.
   
2. Sift wheat flour (125 g) into almond flour (250 g), add sugar (150 g), baking powder (7 g) and a pinch of salt. Stir the dry mixture until smooth. Add crushed oil to the mixture of dry ingredients. Using your hands, grind everything into a fine, uniform crumb, similar in texture to wet sand.
   
3. Add two eggs to the resulting crumbs and knead the dough thoroughly until smooth. Cover the bowl with the kneaded dough with cling film and refrigerate for 30-40 minutes. While cooling the dough, the flour is moistened, the oil hardens, prevents gluten from developing in the flour, the dough “relaxes” and becomes soft, supple and elastic. Such a dough does not stick to your hands, it is easier to work with, and it does not shrink when baking. After cooling the dough, the finished cookie becomes more tender.
   

Molding

1. Spread a sheet of parchment paper on a baking sheet. Turn the oven on to a temperature of 180 ° C. Divide the chilled dough into small, identical pieces, slightly smaller than a walnut. For uniform division of the pieces, you can roll out the dough with a long, equal thickness sausage, and cut with a knife into equal parts. And you can pinch off pieces on the eye, but then the cookies can turn out to be different in size.
   
2. Roll round balls from each piece with your hands and evenly distribute on a sheet of parchment. When placing cookies on a sheet, you need to consider that during baking, the balls will spread out wide. To avoid sticking, the workpieces should be stacked with each other at a distance of at least 4-5 cm.
   

Baking

Place a baking sheet with evenly spread dough balls in an oven preheated to 180 ° C for 20-25 minutes. Bake until golden brown.

Submission and registration

• Remove the finished cookies from the oven, let it cool, remove from parchment paper and sprinkle with powdered sugar.
• Instead of powder, you can apply thin strips of chocolate glaze to the cookies, or grease the cookies with a brush with white or colored glaze, and sprinkle with chopped almonds until it has frozen.
• Cookies are beautifully laid out with a slide in a plate or vase, served with tea, coffee and other drinks.

Video recipe

This is one of the best videos about making macaroons according to the classic recipe at home. You will be able to follow the process of kneading dough, molding and baking in dynamics. Enjoy your viewing.

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