Almond macaroons with chocolate cream

AUTHOR
Jennie Fields
DIFFICULTY
very easy
RATING
3 4
COOK TIME
60 mins
TOTAL TIME
60 mins

Ingredients

Servings: 12
  • 75 g Almond kernels without skin
  • 3 Protein (size M)
  • 7-10 Tbsp Salt
  • 35 g fine sugar
  • 100 g Icing sugar
  • 100 g ground almonds without skin
  • 250 g Dark chocolate
  • 400 g Whipped cream
  • 250 g Nougat chocolate
  • 50 g Hip cookies or wafer rolls
  • 7-10 Tbsp Caramel decoration
  • baking paper
  • 7-10 Tbsp Disposable piping bag

Directions

  1. 1

    Roast almond kernels in a pan without fat. Take out, let it cool down a bit and chop it roughly. Beat the egg white until stiff, adding salt, sugar and sieved icing sugar. Continue beating until a smooth, shiny mixture is obtained. Carefully fold in the ground almonds

  2. 2

    Spread the mixture on a baking tray lined with baking paper (approx. 27 x 40 cm) and sprinkle with chopped almonds. Bake in a preheated oven (electric cooker: 175 °C/ convection oven: 150 °C/ gas: see manufacturer) for approx. 30 minutes

  3. 3

    In the meantime, roughly chop the dark chocolate. Heat the cream, remove from the heat and melt the chocolate in it while stirring, pour into a bowl and chill for about 2 hours. Remove the macaroon base from the oven and let it cool down

  4. 4

    Melt the nougat chocolate over a warm water bath. Crumble and add the pastry. Carefully spread the chocolate mixture on the baked macaroon mass and chill for approx. 30 minutes

  5. 5

    Cut the macaroon base into about 24 squares (approx. 6.5 x 6.5 cm). Whip the chocolate cream with the whisk of the hand mixer for about 1 minute, then fill into a piping bag with a large star-shaped spout. Spray a large tuff of chocolate cream on about half of the macaroons, decorate the other half with a small tuff each. Place macaroons with small tuff on top of macaroons with large tuff. Dust with icing sugar, decorate with caramel decoration if desired and serve immediately

  6. 6

    waiting time approx. 2 hours

Nutrition Facts

KCAL
480 kcal
CARBS
35 g
FATS
34 g
PROTEINS
8 g