I'm not actually a fan of macaroons but had been wanting to bake some after I saw the cover of Australian Masterchef magazine. That was a long time ago.
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| the cover of Australian Masterchef magazine |
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| the first batch - failed |
Anyway I baked some chocolate macaroons with Shirlyn this morning. It was our first time making macaroons. The first batch we baked was a failure. The macs got some ugly holes in them :( then we checked with Google, it turns out that we have to let them dry for about 20-30 minutes after piping them (it was actually on the recipe but we didn't read it well :P). And we have to tap the air out from the batter by tapping the trays on bench. We were so happy watching them rise a bit in the oven. It was almost perfect except the surface isn't smooth. I guess it was the almond powder. We tried to sift the almond powder though but it took so long so we just used them as they were. It is recommended that we use ultra fine almond powder. It is a bit hard to find the ingredients here, I guess next time we're making macaroons we're gonna put them on the food processor first to make it ultra fine and then sift them first before folding them into the egg whites batter. Anyway the macaroons taste quite good. Very chocolatey! You can find some tips on making the perfect macaroons here on Pink Whisk
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