Cranberry macaroons

AUTHOR
Melissa Olsen
DIFFICULTY
RATING
4 1
COOK TIME
75 mins
TOTAL TIME
75 mins

Ingredients

Servings: 8
  • 120 g soft butter
  • 50 g Icing sugar
  • 7-10 Tbsp Salt
  • 150 g Flour
  • 25 g Cocoa powder
  • 4 Drops of baking aroma bitter almond
  • 40 g chocolate sprinkles
  • 60 g dried cranberries (alternatively dried
  • 7-10 Tbsp apricots)
  • 3 Protein (Kl. M)
  • 1 TEASPOON Lemon juice
  • 150 g Sugar
  • 130 g finely ground almonds
  • 200 g Marmellata di mirtilli rossi (o composta di mirtilli rossi

Directions

  1. 1

    Mix butter, sugar, 1 pinch of salt with the dough hooks of the hand mixer. Knead in flour, 20 g cocoa, baking flavour. Cool dough in foil for 2 hours.

  2. 2

    Roll out dough in several portions on a floured surface 3 mm thin. Cut out to circles of 4 cm Ø, place on trays with baking paper. Sprinkle with chocolate sprinkles. Place in a preheated oven at 180 degrees on the 2nd shelf.

  3. 3

    Bake from below for 8 minutes (fan oven: 7 minutes at 160 degrees).

  4. 4

    Chop cranberries. Beat egg whites, 1 pinch of salt, lemon juice and sugar until stiff. Fold in almonds and cranberries. Pour the dough into a piping bag with a medium perforated spout. Put 1/4 tsp. jam in the middle of each taler.

  5. 5

    Sprinkle almond paste over it. Bake for another 15 minutes as above. Let it cool down. Sprinkle with some cocoa.