How to Make French Macarons

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How to Make French Macarons

Angela Vuong

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Preheat oven to 280 degrees! Then you'll need to cut out the parchment paper to fit the trays to bake.

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Next, use a shot glass and outline circles on the parchment paper.

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Begin to sift your almond and powdered sugar mix. You'll need to sift through it twice and set aside for later.

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In your mixer bowl, put in 3 egg whites.

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Begin mixing on medium speed until the mixture gets frothy and white.

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Begin adding granulated sugar, 1 tablespoon at a time until well mixed. Keep mixing on medium speed until the mixture becomes thick and creates stiff peaks (should take a while!)

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In the meantime, begin to measure your mixture. You want to be sure that you have the exact measurements or else it won't turn out right!

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This is my process of sifting it the second time.

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Once the egg whites and sugar hit the right consistency, add the vanilla extract. Begin folding in with preferred food coloring.

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Add first half of almond-sugar mix. Be sure to fold the mixture in. Once it's thoroughly mixed, add the second half. Don't over mix! Stop mixing once the consistency is like lava! Put into piping bag.

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Begin piping onto the parchment paper. They should be about 1/2 inch apart.

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Let them sit for about 15 minutes or until the tops are dried and won't stick. It could take longer than 15 minutes (ours took about 30)

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Begin baking!! We added sprinkles on top before we baked them. That is up to you. The first 2 minutes, be sure to open the oven and shift the position to prevent burning. Try baking near the bottom!

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Take out once ready. Should be about 12 minutes and let cool. Pair them up!

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Begin adding filling. We used a typical sugar frosting recipe and just added blue food coloring.

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Press together! But be gentle!

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Enjoy!

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⅔ Cups Ground almond

1 ½ Cups Powdered sugar

3 Large egg whites

5 Tablespoons Granulated sugar

1 Teaspoon Vanilla extract

Parchment paper, baking tins

Can u use brown sugar?

Shayne Cui yesterday

If mine came out as GIANT crisp cookie shells, no middle, middle burnt off, what did I do wrong?

Snip Snap last week

Looks good Angela

Angell Nguyen last month

Do you have the sugar frosting recipe? Thanks!

lil l last month

They look like crabby patties!

Gabriela Leite😜😜😜😜 last month

I'm glad to hear that! Congrats!

Angela Vuong (author) 3 months ago

Loved these! They've always intimidated me before but this guide made it look simple. Just experimented today and made some with a coffee filling and others with raspberry. Perfect. Thank you!

Diana Christian 3 months ago

Ok thanks ☺

Allyson Debrito 4 months ago

Fahrenheit

Angela Vuong (author) 4 months ago

250 degrees Celsius or fahrenheit

Allyson Debrito 4 months ago

These are so cute! Fingers crossed I get it right! Thanks for sharing...x

Isi Olunwa 4 months ago

Just received some from Paris,,,yummy. Think I will try this. Easier than getting them from a friend over there. Thanks for making it seem easy

Carol Murray 4 months ago

These look perfect!

Oh Snap Snap 4 months ago

Nevermind. I found it. Im new to snapguide. Thx.

Roxanne Pineda 4 months ago

Where is the step by step? And what is the filling?

Roxanne Pineda 4 months ago

wow，it's beautiful

Alan Chou 4 months ago

I know some have used cocoa powder (chocolate flavor), pistachios, and some flavoring product to make raspberry ones. There's many different kinds. I would try googling it.

Angela Vuong (author) 4 months ago

Yummy! If you liked this guide then you would like my "how to make awesome headphones" guide!

Cookie Monster 4 months ago

Ok xx

Olivia Yasmin 💜 4 months ago

I know some recipes use pistachios instead. I don't think the almond flavor is very strong.

Angela Vuong (author) 4 months ago

Can you leave out the almonds? I know it's like the main ingredient but do they taste like almonds as I don't like them much ? :)

Olivia Yasmin 💜 4 months ago

Love the color! Thanks for sharing! Will definitely try to make them!

Trang Ly 4 months ago

will try them during my holidays!! 😋

Denise lee 4 months ago

Cute and yummy!

Lilah Sherr 4 months ago

好有欲望

mester von 4 months ago

Wow. Beautiful colors!

Sam Kimbrel 4 months ago

Yummy looks good :-) <3

Valerie Martinez 4 months ago

I'm so doing this for valentines!:):):):):)

Maddee Bauer 4 months ago

Oh yum. This will be fun to do. Thanks for your instruction.

River Haven 4 months ago

Great guide, thanks for sharing!

Natalie Walsh 4 months ago

Awesome! Thanks for this

Larisa Escobar 4 months ago

I am going to do that the first chance I get I love macaroons

Keith Kearney 4 months ago

Thank you! Very much appreciated :)

Angela Vuong (author) 4 months ago

These look so pretty!

Y P 4 months ago

Yummy thank you for your guide. 👍😋

Inna Inna 4 months ago

Yes! I enjoyed making these! I'm making another batch today :)

Angela Vuong (author) 4 months ago

It can be made with almonds as well.

Angela Vuong (author) 4 months ago

I'm so excited about this, I didn't know it took so few ingredients to make these. ❤🍡😅

Caitlin Joy 4 months ago

They are $0.98 at Walmart per package!

Angela Vuong (author) 4 months ago

I used slivered almonds and grounded them in a food processor.

Angela Vuong (author) 4 months ago

Can you just buy some not salted roasted almost a and ground them yourself?!

Claire Frederick 4 months ago

I've been wanting to make these but I'm intimidated by them! Thanks for the post...I think I will try to make them!!!!

Jacqui * 4 months ago

Thanks!

Hänsel Van Boxstael 4 months ago

Fahrenheit!

Angela Vuong (author) 4 months ago

Is this temperature in °F or °C?

Hänsel Van Boxstael 4 months ago

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Look at the supplies list.

Angela Vuong (author) 4 months ago

What's the measurements of all the ingredients?

Lorry Dickinson 4 months ago

Ya I've made macaroons without sifting and they weren't very good.

Heather W 4 months ago

Makes sure your mixture becomes fine and flour-like. You don't want big clumps in your dry mixture.

Angela Vuong (author) 4 months ago

What does sifting do?

Johnney King 4 months ago

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This is awesome! Last recipe I used turned out as a disaster. I think this time will work for sure :)

Tiffany Zhong 4 months ago

Yes.

Talula Cui yesterday

Granulated sugar is like regular sugar right?

Mónica Morales 3 months ago

Depends on the machine you use. Mine only takes about 3 minutes.

Angela Vuong (author) 3 months ago

What is "a while"?

Diana Christian 3 months ago

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like it

Marwa RS 4 months ago

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Yes. Any color. Your choice.

Angela Vuong (author) 3 months ago

Can you put any food coloring

Denisse Aguilar 3 months ago

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حسين الغزال 4 months ago

30 mins minimum :) can sometimes take a little longer

Spazbunny 4 months ago

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Thank you! They look like Tiffany&Co. :)

Angela Vuong (author) 4 months ago

Great colour!! Such a lovely pastel!! :D ❤

Spazbunny 4 months ago

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Wow

Kurosh M 4 months ago

Hehe thank you :)

Angela Vuong (author) 4 months ago

They're so cute!

HeyD388y P 4 months ago

Your macaroons fit together perfect I've never managed to get them like that, but just a note: ganache does work a lot better as a filling :)

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