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Golden macarons recipe

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Created by Adriano Zumbo

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4/ 5 stars 16 Votes

Cuisine: French
Serves 16

Macarons are one Adriano's favourite desserts to make. Print out the recipe and listen to the audio as he talks you step-by-step through the process of creating his special golden macaron.

Ingredients

Vanilla-gold ganache
200g white chocolate, cut into small pieces
120g cream
1 vanilla bean
65g unsalted butter
2 sheets 23-carat edible gold

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Macaron shells
95g egg whites
125g caster sugar
40g water
270g TPT (this is a mix of half-blanched ground almond meal and half pure icing sugar. To make it yourself, put 135g whole blanched almonds and 135g icing sugar in a food processor)
2 tbsp gold powder
Metallic gold dust, to decorate

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Preparation

The ganache

Place the chocolate in a stainless steel bowl. Set the bowl aside. In a saucepan, mix your cream and vanilla over medium heat. Bring to the boil.

Pour the cream mixture over the chocolate and wait 20 seconds, allowing the heat of the cream to melt the chocolate. Stir the mixture with a whisk until a glossy ganache forms. When the chocolate has completely melted, add the butter.

Stir the butter through and mix well. Gently break up the gold leaf and fold it in. When you begin to see little gold flecks, the ganache is done. Cover the bowl with plastic wrap, making sure it touches the surface of the mixture. Then put the bowl in the fridge.

The golden shells

Crack the eggs and separate them. Put 50g of egg whites in one bowl and 45g in another. Pour the water into a saucepan. Add the sugar and gently stir. Place the mixture on the stove and, using a cooking thermometer, stir until the temperature reaches 118°C.

Meanwhile, put the TPT mixture in another bowl. Make a well in the centre of the TPT and place 45g of egg whites in the well. The egg whites should just sit in the nest. Set that bowl aside.

Place the remaining batch of egg whites into the clean, dry bowl of a food processor. On medium speed, slowly run the hot sugar mixture down the side of the bowl so it blends in with the egg whites. After 3-5 minutes, it should form a firm, glossy meringue mixture. Take the bowl with the TPT mixture and gently fold through the meringue mix. Then lastly, add the gold powder.

Fit a piping bag with a 9mm tube. Fill the bag half-way, and pack the mixture down tight so there are no air bubbles. Line a tray with baking paper. Make each shell about the size of a 20-cent piece. Lay out the shells in alternate rows so the air flow on the tray is nice and even. When finished, pick up the tray and lightly tap the bottom. That will get rid of any excess air.

Set the tray aside for about 30 minutes or until a skin forms on the top of the shells. Once they’re touch-dry, put the shells in the oven at 135°C and bake for 15 minutes. When the shells are cool, flip them out and match them up in pairs.

Assembly

Take the vanilla-gold ganache out of the fridge and load up the piping bag using a 7mm tube. Pipe a ball of ganache, roughly the size of a 20-cent piece, onto half of the shells. Then top with the remaining shells to make a beautiful golden sandwich.

For the finishing touch, take a dry brush and skim a little metallic gold dust on top of each macaron, then turn the macaron over and repeat on the other side. Put them on a baking tray, cover them with plastic wrap, then leave in the fridge overnight.

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Comments (6)

31 Dec 2012 06:50 AEST

SucroseObsession

Herts

Were those done?

Wow. Watching him peel those off the pan. I wouldn't deem those as done! That left half the macaron on the paper!

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16 Sep 2012 08:35 AEST

Li Yan

Hallam

Sugar Syrup

@Ema: There's two methods to make macarons, French and Italian. Adriano uses the Italian method (a little harder by less can go wrong) which uses sugar syrup. The other method you don't need to make a sugar syrup but there's a higher chance of your macarons not turning out right (cracked tops, no feet, etc).

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06 Aug 2012 03:21 AEST

ema

carlton

Sugar Syrup

I have adrianos cook book and it says that we need to add sugar syrup to the macaron shell recipe. ive looked at other recipes and some add the sugar syrup while others don't. What is the sugar syrup for? do we need to add it?

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11 May 2012 01:57 AEST

Dan

Richmond

macaron recipe

not a great idea to make your own almond meal as it probably won't be fine and dry enough. It's best to buy ready-made almond meal. Less fuss! Here's another macaron guide - http://www.themacaronmaster.com/, more detailed than most! There are also guides on Amazon.com. Macarons are not easy to make but well worth learning the craft. And, yeah, they taste delic but we all know that :)

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25 Feb 2011 06:47 AEST

karen @ ladymacaron20ten

I haven't personally tested out Adriano's macaron shell recipe because I have my own but 40g of water sounds fine to me. If you do happen to add a little too much (as may be the case in the video) it doesn't really matter because the water will evaporate whilst cooking your sugar syrup. The main thing you are trying to achieve is sugar syrup cooked to the soft ball stage. If too much water is added it just takes longer to reach this stage. All other measurements must be precise.

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22 Feb 2011 07:17 AEST

Chalk

Just wondering if anyone can tell me, is there a mistake in the recipe? In the Macaron shells ingredient list it says 40 g. of water. But in the video it looks like Andriano is putting more than 40g. of water in the mix... Has anyone tested this recipe? Thanks.

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