Chocolate Macaron Homemade Style

The macaron is one of the favorite pastry desserts of the French cuisine! Made by joining two shells of Italian or French meringue to each other with a ganache, it is not so difficult to make. So get started with this chocolate macaron recipe, and you and your guests will lick your fingers.

Prepare ingredients and mixtures

prepare the ingredients

Sift the sugar, cocoa and almond powder several times to obtain a very fine mixture (some pass everything through the blender!)

Sift the sugar, cocoa and almond powder

Whip the egg whites until stiff. When they start to be firm, add the icing sugar (10 grams), in 2 batches.

white eggs firm mixture

Add the whites to the powder (cocoa / almond / sugar) and mix to obtain a smooth, shiny dough, but with staying power (mix enough but not too much)

cocoa almond and sugar mixture

Making chocolate macaron circles

Using a pastry bag, make small circles on a sheet of parchment paper or a silicone plate for a perfect a chocolate macaron.

Let “poach” in the open air 20 minutes

make small chocolate circles

Baking and final steps

Preheat the oven to 150 ° C

Bake the chocolate macaron for 20 minutes (15 min if they are small macarons)

Make the ganache by heating the cream and pouring it over the chocolate pieces. Mix, then add the butter, mix again and keep cool.

You can try Pistachio macaron.

Take out the macarons: they must be dry on the collar and above, still “wet” inside. Let them cool for a few minutes, peel them off and garnish them.

Bake the macarons

Place the macarons in the fridge overnight , covered with cling film or in a box. If you respect this expectation (unbearable, I know …), the macarons will be even more tender!