daisybow: Easy Salted Caramel Macaron Recipe!

Hii,

So today I made salted caramel french macarons and the turned out really well, so I thought I'd share the recipe because it was so delicious!

Ingredients:

To make the actual Macarons: (makes about 20 macarons)
220g (7.76 ounces) icing sugar
120g (4.23 ounces) ground almonds
120 g (4.23 ounces) egg whites (3-4 medium egg whites)
80g (2.82 ounces) caster sugar

To make the buttercream filling:

Half a teaspoon of salt

Caramel Flavouring (1 Cap full)

140g (5 ounces) Butter, Softened

280g (10 ounces) Icing sugar

1-2 tbsp milk

*Preheat oven to 150C, exactly.
*Sift together the icing sugar and ground almonds using a sieve. Get rid of any gritty bits of ground almonds that do not go through the sieve.
*Beat together the egg whites and caster sugar on high speed until they are stiff enough that you can turn the bowl upside down without them falling out. Beat for an additional 2 minutes. Add the almond icing sugar mixture and fold in using a spatula. Keep gently folding until the mixture looks like lava, but it can't be runny.
*Spoon into a piping bag or food storage bag (Like me) and pipe small circles of mixture onto baking paper. Slide onto a baking tray and bang on the bench firmly several times on each side.

if you are using a food storage bag, spoon the mixture in, push down to a corner and snip of the end of the corner, this will work like a piping bag. This is an easier method than the piping bag because you can just throw it away afterwards!

*Place in the oven (you do not need to leave them to sit on the bench with this recipe) and bake until a foot has formed and the shells are crisp. This takes roughly 20 minutes. Don't open the oven (as I found out after my first batch) because this will crack them and make them collapse and they'll also be hollow!

*Cool and then gently peel off the baking paper and pair similar sized shells.
FOR THE BUTTERCREAM FILLING
*Mix together the Icing Sugar and Butter until slightly combined.
*Then add as much milk as needed to make it combine fully
*Add a cap full of the caramal flavouring and mix
*Spoon onto one half of the macaroon and sandwich them together
These would also be nice as little gifts or something like that, if you put them in a plastic wrapper like me. (I got them from home bargains for 99p!)