Victoria Gladchenko and Anna Bakhonko · Odesa, Ukraine
Macarons with Berries and Mascarpone Cream

Macaroni – a popular French dessert. It was a favorite delicacy of the French monarchs. Macaroon recipe to France had brought an Italian princess Catherine de Medici. Back in the 16th century, macaroon was a simple biscuits made with almond flour, egg whites and sugar. Absolutely no exotic filling or rainbow colors or cream filling. It was just a simple dough.
Today, there is an incredible variety of different macaroons, they can be both sweet and savory.
They were popular during the French Revolution, and with their help people payed for house.
Ingredients
Method
- Requests the almond flour with powdered sugar.
- Mix a half of eggs whites and dye in a small bowl.
- In a small saucepan, mix the sugar and 57 ml of water, put on a slow fire.
- Meanwhile, start whisking the remaining egg whites.
- When the sugar has dissolved and the syrup reaches 117 * C, and the egg whites reach the middle of the peaks, a small trickle start pouring the hot mixture into the beaten egg whites. Continue whisking for about 5 minutes, until the meringue cools down.
- Then, in small portions to intervene in almond meringue mixture, each time carefully whip dough. When all of the protein to be introduced, it is necessary for some time to knead the dough, eliminating him from the excess air.
- Fill the bag with the dough round nozzle and squeeze out small circles on a baking sheet, the laid parchment at a distance, as the following will grow.
- Leave the dough to dry for half an hour, an hour to the top was a small crust (when a finger touches the dough will not stick).
- Preheat oven to 150 * C. Put the dried dough for 15 minutes (after half-time to deploy the pan).
- For filling:
- Whip cream with powdered sugar until stable peaks. Separately whip mascarpone. In several steps to intervene in the cream cheese, each time carefully whip the mixture.
- Using a pastry bag fill half pasta with cream and berries and scrapie using the second halves.
The dish in the photograph was cooked by the restaurant for this story. Photo: Oleksandr Slyadnyev.
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