Baking macarons is one of the most difficult recipes to master. Our professional macaron recipe will help guide you to make Italian method macarons.
When you’re first starting out, it’s better to use parchment paper to pipe your macarons onto. Sometimes the silicone mats are not perfectly dry/without oil on them, which can cause the macarons not to turn out. You’ll have better success with making professional macarons using parchment paper.
Let the macarons cool fully on the parchment paper. Do not transfer them to a cooling rack.
Fill the macarons with your favorite filling. There are a ton of different fillings you can use including: chocolate ganache, icing, salted caramel sauce, etc.
You can put other decorations on top of the filled macarons afterwards. You can put caramel sauce, chocolate, sprinkles, etc. to give them a beautiful professional look to the macarons.
Professional Macaron Recipe
Equipment
- Candy Thermometer
- Stand mixer
- kitchen scale
Materials
Almond Batter
- 55 g egg whites pasteurized
- 150 g almond flour sifted
- 150 g icing sugar sifted
Italian Meringue
- 55 g egg whites pasteurized
- 38 g water
- 150 g granulated sugar
Instructions
Italian Meringue
- Place 55g egg whites in a stand mixer and mix on high speed.
- Place 38g of water and 150g of sugar in a saucepan on medium heat and attach a candy thermometer to the saucepan to measure the temperature.
- Adjust the stand mixer speed to beat on low speed. When the syrup gets up to 118 degrees C slowly stream the sugar syrup down the side of the bowl of the stand mixer. Increase the speed of the stand mixer to medium-heat speed and let it beat. The meringue is finished when you can turn the bowl upside down and the egg whites do not move. While you're waiting for the syrup to get up to temperature, you can begin preparing the almond batter.
Almond Batter
- Place another 55g egg whites in a large mixing bowl. Add any food coloring at this point using gel food coloring or 1/4 tsp of powdered food coloring. You could also add 1 tbsp of coffee grounds or cookie crumbs to the shells. You can add 1/4 tsp of extract as well if you want to flavor the shells. Mix the color thoroughly until the color is fully emulsified into the egg whites.
- Add sifted and measured almond flour and icing sugar. Mix until fully combined. It should feel like a paste when it's completely mixed.
- Add 1/2 of the meringue to the mixing bowl. Scrape the bottom and sides of the bowl to mix the almond paste with the meringue using a wooden spoon.
- Add the rest of the meringue to the bowl. Mix until it's full combined. Continue mixing the macaron batter a little more, a few more turns. It should flow like lava when you lift your spoon. The batter should be glossy and less grainy than when you began mixing.
- Pipe the macarons 1.5" wide on a silicone baking mat or parchment paper lined baking sheet. They are best cooked on an aluminum baking pan. Then pipe the next macaron 2" further away.
- Add any sprinkles to the macarons at this point. Pick up the pan and bang the bottom of it to remove air bubbles. Bang the pan 3-5 times.
- Let the macarons dry for 30 minutes.
- Bake the macarons for 12 minutes at 300 degrees F.
- Let the macarons fully cool. Take one of the macaron shells and match it up with a good fit for itself. Match all of your macarons up and place face up.
- Fill the macarons with your filling of choice. Filling ideas for your macarons include: buttercream icing, chocolate ganache, caramel sauce, etc. You can use a piping tip to give the icing a bit of a design if you like. The star tip works well for piping the macaron filling. Place the other macaron shell on top of the filling to create a sandwich.
- Store the macarons in the fridge for 3 days or in the freezer for up to 1 month.
