Sunday, April 7, 2013

Chocolate Pecan Macaroons

Don't have almond flour but want to make macaroons?? Well your in luck you can make them with pecans instead!! :D Enjoy!

Ingredients:

Macaroon Dough:
+ 1 cup of powdered sugar
+ 1/2 cup of powdered pecans
+ 3 tbs. of cocoa powder
+ 2 egg whites
+ 5 tbs. of granulated sugar

Chocolate Filling:
+ 1/2 of heavy whip cream
+ 2 tsp. of corn syrup
+ 1/2 cup of dark chocolate
+ 1 tbs. of butter

Directions:

Macaroons:
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
2. Sift together pecans, powdered sugar, and cocoa powder.
3. Beat in egg whites to dry ingredients and gradually add granulated sugar. Keep mixing until it makes stiff peaks.
4. Transfer batter to pastry bag and pipe out 1 inch cookies. Let them cook for 15-18 min.

Chocolate Filling:
1. In a saucepan heat the cream and corn syrup until there are bubbles on the side of the pan.
2. Remove from heat and add in chocolate.
3. Then put in freezer for 10-20 minutes.
4. Spread on the cookies and put them together as sandwiches.



2 comments:

Laur Hornby said...

Wow. They look amazing Elisabeth... And if I don't have powered pecans I guess I can use almond flour! :D

Unknown said...

Yup or you could just chop up pecans (that's what I did).