Sweet Dream Macarons

INGREDIENTS
Macarons

• 150g almond flour
• 150g powdered sugar
• 55g egg whites
• 150g granulated sugar
• 37g water (yes grams!)
• 55g liquefied egg whites
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• Fairy floss flavouring
• 2 drops blue food gel
• 2 drops pink food gel

Decorations

• Pink, blue and white sprinkles
• 200g pink/blue cotton candy

INSTRUCTIONS

1. Add the powdered sugar and almond flour into a food processor and pulse 4-5 times or until well combined. Take care not to pulse too many times otherwise you’ll risk releasing the oils in the almonds. Pulsing these two ingredients does two things. It will help get rid of any lumps in the sugar and will help grind the almond meal into smaller pieces. Alternatively, you may sift the two ingredients together. This must be done at least 3 times.
2. Empty the almond mixture into a large clean glass or metal mixing bowl. Add the first portion of egg whites (55g). Use a spatula to mix everything together until it forms a paste. Cover with plastic wrap and set aside.
3. To make the sugar syrup add the granulated sugar and water into a small saucepan. Give it a very gentle stir with a teaspoon to get everything well combined. After this point don’t mix the syrup again. Bring to a boil on a medium high heat, then turn down to a simmer. As the syrup bubbles away it will splatter small bubbles of sugared water on the sides of the pot. Use a pastry brush dabbed in a little bit of water to brush those back into the syrup. This will help prevent the syrup from crystallising.
4. For this recipe you’ll need a candy thermometer to help you measure the temperature of the syrup. When the syrup reaches 115C / 240F, add the second portion of egg whites (55g) to the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with a whisk attachment, and start whisking them on medium/high speed to help break them apart and get them frothy.
5. When the syrup reaches 118C / 244F, carefully pour the very hot syrup into the egg whites in a slow and steady stream while the mixer is on high speed. Please be careful when doing this part. Number one because the syrup is hot, but also if you add your syrup too quickly you’ll cook the egg whites and they’ll turn to soup. Once the you’ve poured all the sugar syrup into the egg whites, continue whisking on high speed for about 3 minutes before you add the vanilla extract. Add fairy floss flavouring at about the 3 minute mark
6. Continue whipping for another 4-5 minutes. Once your meringue has become thick and glossy and has cooled down close to room temperature, stop the mixer and gently scrape down the bowl, then whisk on high speed for an extra couple of minutes.
7. The next part is the mixing stage. Otherwise known as ‘macaronage’, and is super important. It’s where most people go wrong, including me until I took a trip to Paris and was physically shown how to do it by a French pastry chef.
8. Grab a spatula full of the meringue and fold it into the almond-sugar paste. Mix until well combined. This allows the mixture to thin out a little before you add the rest of the meringue to the sugar paste. Continue folding until all the meringue is mixed in. Normally I’d tell you to continue folding until you reach the ribbon stage but not for this recipe. Mix the meringue until it’s just mixed in enough that you can’t see any unmixed meringue.
9. Split the batter into two bowls. Add pink food gel into one bowl. Fold until you reach the ribbon stage.
10. The ribbon stage is when the batter falls off your spatula in a ribbon, without breaking, and then disappears back into the rest of the batter after about 10 seconds. That’s when you know the batter is ready to pipe.
11. Repeat with the blue batter.
12. Spoon each coloured batter into two separate piping bags. Fit the end of a large piping bag with a medium sized round tip and insert the piping bags into the large piping bag.
13. Pipe rounds of batter about 5cm (1.8 inches) in diameter, spacing them 2cm apart on (flat) baking trays lined with silicone baking mats or baking paper (not greaseproof paper). If you’re using baking paper add small dabs of the macaron batter on each corner of the tray to help the baking paper stick to the baking tray so it doesn’t fly around in the oven and ruin your macarons.

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