Pages

June 30, 2011

Macarons with Red Currant Curd

Actually, I went to the kitchen to cook something for lunch, but I felt so empty and had no idea, so I decided to bake macarons instead. Well, I still have no idea, what to cook, but I have a nice bunch of macarons. Somehow I always postponed making Italian merinuge based macarons, and what a mistake this was! I have never managed to bake white macarons before, but today finally it just happened! It seems, that I made one step towards imporving my macaron baking skill. I am so happy with these batch of macarons, and now I feel like I could bake macarons all day long. I already have some egg whites ageing and I can not wait to bake another bunch! I have never been a big fan of macarons, but these made me love them.  When I had two sheets baked, I decided to add some cocoa powder to the batter and even those worked out! I was thrilled! So far I always had problems with cocoa powder in the batter, but not this time. For the filling I took an old and almost forgotten recipe of mine that is actually a raspberry curd, but now I've prepared it with red currants.



Ingredients:
(recipe by Tartelette)
80 g aged egg whites
25 g sugar
100 g almond flour
100 g icing sugar
100 g sugar
35 g water
for the filling:
200 g red currant puree
120 g icing sugar
2 egg yolks
150 g butter



Beat 40 g of egg whites with 25 g of sugar until it forms peaks. Meanwhile make the syrup: bring 100 g sugar with 35 g water to boil and as soon as it has reached  110°C remove it from the heat and add it to the beaten egg whites in a thin stream while beating constantly. Keep on beating until it has cooled down, this takes about 10 minutes. Stir the other 40 g of egg whites, unbeaten to the sieved almond-icing sugar mixture. Preheat the oven to 150°C. Pipe macarons onto a silicon sheet or a baking paper covered baking sheet. Bake macarons for 13-15 minutes depending on the oven or a few minutes longer if you make bigger ones. For the filling whisk together red currant puree with icing sugar and the egg yolks and beat it over steam until it thickens. Remove and whisk in room temperature butter. Chill curd for 2-3 hours.

5 comments:

Rosa's Yummy Yums said...

Fantastic! I love the acidity of redcurrants.

Cheers,

Rosa

Sashquatch said...

I reallyreally love the composition of these photos, especially the second one, they almost seem to have their own little personalities! (or maybe im just going crazy cos i want to try one so badly...) gorgeous sounding recipe, the red currant puree sounds amaazzzinnggg

Barbara said...

Ich bin gerade über Deinen Kommentar bei Küchenschabe auf Deinem Post gelandet. Fruit Curd passt klasse zu Macarons, finde ich. Mein erster Versuch war mit Orange Curd, das fand ich auch echt überzeugend. Ganache ist mir manchmal einfach zu mächtig.

Die Küchenschabe said...

Hallo chriesi,
ich hab mir vor einer woche das buch "macarons" von pierre herme gekauft und bin begeistert. die macarons macht er fast wie du, mit zucker und kochendem wasser. ist total spannend, man glaubt, wenn man die heiße zuckerlösung auf den eischnee kippt, wird alles zerrinnen - tut es aber nicht! die macarons rasten jetzt im kühlschrank für einige tage, ich möchte dann die isfahan-füllung probieren!

chriesi said...

Hallo Küchenschabe!

Uii das ist toll! Das Buch muss ich auch noch kaufen, es ist bestimmt genial! Bin gespannt auf dein Ergebnis! Viel spass noch beim backen!

Related Posts with Thumbnails