How to Make Macarons with a French Master | CHOW-TO
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- Опубліковано 29 тра 2024
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These colorful little sandwich cookies turn adults into kids in a candy store. They're so perfect, they're almost intimidating - but fear not! To learn how to make them at home, Guillermo met with master patissier Jayce Baudry, the executive pastry chef, for Daniel Boulud's épiceries. The french chef taught us the tricks and techniques involved, that actually make the process fool-proof, and yield perfect results, even for the amateur baker. (Stick till the end to see Guillermo make a batch all on his own!)
French Macaron Recipe with Italian Meringue
This recipe will make about 200 shells (so 100 macarons total)-but with a scale, it’s easy to cut the recipe in half or otherwise reduce the ingredient amounts to a more manageable size. Note: the ingredients list shows two different amounts of egg whites because they’re added at different points in the process.
Ingredients:
**Metric conversions have been done using an Ingredient Weight Chart based on volume/weight conversion - for best results we recommend using a scale to weigh your ingredients
372 grams powdered sugar = 3 ⅓ cups
372 grams almond flour = 3 ¼ cups
160 grams day old egg whites = 5-6 eggs depending on size
370 grams sugar = 2 ¼ cups
100 grams water = 3.75 oz = 0.46 cup
125 grams fresh egg whites = 4-5 eggs depending on size
Filling of your choice (ganache is traditional)
Instructions:
1. In a food processor, grind the almond flour and powdered sugar to a very fine powder.
2. In a stand mixer with the paddle attachment, mix the powder with the 160 grams of egg whites until you have a paste. Scrape down the sides and bottom of the bowl to be sure the dry ingredients are fully incorporated
3. In a heavy-bottomed, deep saucepan, use a spatula to stir the sugar and water together over medium-high heat. Stir just until the sugar melts, but be sure not to stir again once the mixture boils or it may crystallize (if it does, start over again). Allow the sugar and water to boil until the mixture reaches 244 degrees Fahrenheit (or 118 degrees Celsius) on a digital candy thermometer. Remove from the heat and set aside.
4. In a stand mixer fitted with the whisk attachment, whip the 125 grams of egg whites until they become voluminous and hold soft peaks. Then, with the mixer still running, slowly pour the cooked sugar mixture into the bowl, sticking close to the side of the bowl rather than near the center, until it’s all incorporated. Continue to mix until the outside of the bowl is no longer hot, but just feels warm to the touch. When you lift up the whisk, the meringue should hold soft peaks.
5. With a spatula, fold half the meringue into the wet ingredients until incorporated. Scrape down the sides of the bowl, then fold in the other half of the meringue until incorporated and break out your bench scraper for macaronage. Check out the video for a demonstration of the technique. Your mixture should be shiny, smooth, and start to relax a bit in the bowl.
6. Use a piping bag fitted with a 10 millimeter tip to pipe circles of batter onto parchment paper-lined baking sheets (expert piping technique is also demonstrated in the video). Leave the sheets out on the counter for at least an hour to allow the shells time to dry. (This downtime is also a good time to make your ganache if that’s what you’re using to fill the shells, since it will need to be completely cool and thicken up before you pipe it!)
7. Preheat your oven to 300ºF degrees and arrange a rack in the middle. Bake one sheet of macarons at a time for 14 minutes each, rotating the pan halfway through each baking session. You’ll know the macarons are done when they don’t move about on the parchment when you give them a nudge.
8. Allow shells to cool completely before piping the filling of your choice onto half of the shells and sandwiching them together. Et voilà!
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I love how he actually pays attention to not wasting by leaving ingredients in the mixing bowl.
Right? It kills me when I see ppl missing some with the rubber spatula haha
The “mix till it just becomes shiny” step really is the most important part
Honestly, this is the first I’ve ever heard to stop there. I’ll have to try it next time. My shells tend to have a slight hollow, which is annoying.
I’m seriously grateful 🙏🏽🙌🏽 followed every step, used the grams measurement, and my macaroons came out perfect!
the italian macarons are less finicky
It took me 6 trys to get macaroons right... I tried several different recipes, and all of them ended with some kind of imperfection. Finally I found something that actually works for me. They came out great! Thank you so much for this!
I have tried french macarons they always have something these are Italian they are easier to make less finiky
Congratulations on your patience and success 😎👏🏻 ❤️ Can I ask you a question.? He put egg whites in the almond mix and used it more for Italian meringue, did he divide the whole amount of egg whites? I’m confused 🥹 Thank you, Anna.
Sorry. I got it!!! I had to read his recipe first 😁
@67Marusya click on "more" above the name Chowhound and the recipe is given.
So interesting, ive never seen the part of egg whites being mixed with the almond mixture first
Me neither, and it immediately occurred to me that this will improve the method. Much appreciated.
This is the Italian method
Me neither
This is Italian method for macaron cookies
Since the French Master was using Italian's method, I am going to try that method then.
Il y a une grande différence entre les maccherone italien est les macaron français, les macaron que l'on voie de toutes les couleurs vient des français et en italien le maccherone voulait plutôt dire Gâteux, potage le maccherone italien était plus un biscuits d'amandes et entièrement craquant. etc le macaron que l'on a maintenant vient d'un créateur français bref.
Just a little bit of irony, no?
milla draros English Translation:
There’s a big difference between Italian macarons and French macarons. The macarons we see with all the colours comes from French and for Italian the macarons are more like almond cookies that are crunchy. Etc the macaron that we see comes from a french creator
@@emmam2297 that is some amazing french translation! wow!
@@milladraros4383 (me, who doesn't speak french fluently) Oui.
Chowhound: learn with a French master
Also chowhound: cup measurements
1 cup = 8oz
it’s called the customary system not “cup measurements”
@@charlene3523 In this case it's called imprecision that could lead to failure.
Such a humble and patient chef and teacher! Really enjoyed and learned a lot from this video :) thanks for sharing
I very agree haha
Im impressed with the master! How detailed he is.
The best recipe ever, it worked beautifully!
I made this recipe today and I’ve been experimenting with different methods so I made this one exactly the same but decided to do a test and bake a batch without resting and BAM flawless didn’t have to wait. I do bake in my countertop convection!
Oh man this is SO helpful! Thank you!!!
love how patient the chef was🙌 thank you for sharing your tips and tricks and recipe
You should do a video on how to make French Croissants! Those would’ve be so fun to watch!
The chefs explains really well, I always use Italian merengue and they come out perfect and delicious 😊
You both are so adorable! Thanks for the tips!
This is the best macarons recipe. The first time I baked them, I followed these instructions and they came out perfect.
The steam situation! Answered it all!!
Excellent video! Thank you
This guy gave a great tutorial--really clear explanation. Thanks for this vid.
Thank youuuu.... for the first time, I baked perfect macarons!!!
Awesome recipe. I just made them and the recipe works. Thank you Chef!! 🙏🙏🙏
Thank you for this master class!
Really gonna try this one day. He really took the mystery out of it for me which I love 😂🥲
The recipe on your website says to bake them at 350 degrees, when they’re meant to be baked at 300 degrees Fahrenheit. Now I have about forty burned macarons. But otherwise, really good, no hollows, great feet, and very delicious and chewy.
Wow, I loved this video! It looked like you both had such fun, and that French accent! Droool....❤️
This is my go-to recipe
Thank you! Great video 👍
Amazing, I need the Chocolate one is calling my name!!!!!!!
Thank you Chef!!
Love this chef!
I just tried this recipe this past weekend. It was my first time making macarons and they tasted great! Only about a 10th of them came out looking perfect, though. I'm still a noob, so I'm gonna have to practice some more. My first mistake was making the whole recipe! It took forever because there were so many of them. I suggest cutting it in half unless you really need 100 macarons. :)
Amazing Chef!!!!
Thank you Chef!!! I love him 💋💋he's so sweet!!!💋💋 good job chef!!!!❤❤❤❤👏👏👏👏
This is awesome great video
Adding salt to your meringue is very bad but not for the reason that he mentioned. When salt is added to egg whites it quickly dissolves into its base components of sodium and chlorine. The sodium and chlorine turn right around and bonds to the egg white proteins and that leaves less bonding sites for other egg white proteins to use to form long chains. That means less structure for your meringue.
It's actually way better to have less water in your egg whites but I assure you adding salt won't help with that, aging your egg whites though is the right way to go.
It's very common for chefs to know how to do something but rarely do they know why you do it that way, or the real science behind it, so they opt for the nearest intuitive explanation possible which is rarely factual.
No wonder my macarons started getting better when I was to lazy to add salt to my meringue haha
what about adding tiny amount of vinegar? is that bad too? what is the science behind that?
Acids allow more air to be beaten into a meringue. In order to make meringue, the proteins in egg white must be denatured. In their natural state, the proteins are curled up into tightly packed balls. When the egg is beaten, they uncoil into long strands.
These strands then begin to coagulate, or join together, with the help of the sugar you add. The air you whisk in gets trapped between these joining strands, giving the meringue its characteristic light texture.
Acid delays coagulation, which means that there is more time for air to get trapped in amongst the proteins, resulting in a lighter meringue.
The acids usually added to meringue are white wine vinegar, lemon juice, or cream of tartar.
@@hazardaoowd823 wow, this helps alot. Thanks for the info ;)
Hazar Daoowd when should you add the salt instead?
Perfection!
Great tips thanks
Great vídeo!!! Congratulations 👏🎉
The French do pastry like no one else.
Thank you 👨🍳♥️
MASTERFUL FRENCH PASTRY CHEF! TRD = THE REAL DEAL!
I have to try it, something new..adding egg whites to the almond mixture..it looks incredible beautiful!!
I love that chef
I ❤❤❤ it extremely excellent.
Terimakasih dah membagi resep nya good job
I’m succeeding making this recipe. So happy with the results. 😍😍😍
Thank you sir.
Could we put different colours by separating the Mixture?
I am craving macarons so bad right now..omg
I was super shocked when he just dumped the first batch of egg whites into the dry ingredients, I thought he was going to skip the meringue and it was somehow miraculously going to work anyway...
You can even not whip the egg white at all. There's a video on youtube where you just put the powdered sugar, almonds and egg white together in a mixer and mix for 2-3 minutes. I tried it with a hand mixer. The only thing was, I seemed to just overmix just a tad bit, so the shells were a little bit runny. But they came out very nice and after 2 days of having the ganache in them, they were really really tasty.
@@disdonc6012 do you remember what video it was?
@@a.j2376 Sure, it's here: ua-cam.com/video/lvE145mvSxw/v-deo.html
But it's in German. And the second time I tried with the hand mixer they were too thick. :-(
@@disdonc6012 thank you! Awe okay. Struggling with the Swiss method right now 😆
“ you’re all invited “ imagine 340k people showing up at your doorstep
It actually is quite hard, when you don’t have a “master chef” right there coaching & helping your every move.
It is not too hard lorde. It is the matter of how you can eat all of your bad macarons before the right ones are made.
That's not true. I took one class to learn macaronnage technique properly, and I've been having fantastic and consistent results. You just need to practice. Took me 8 months to refine my technique, now I get the same type of foot formation and even/smooth tops to all my shells. What they don't discuss, that they really should, is KNOWING YOUR OVEN. If you have hot spots, it will impact the even baking of your macs. If you have a convection oven, use it for macs...they'll be more even and will develop faster with that type of oven. Just need to know your oven well, and by all means, learn proper macaronnage technique. You use the technique regardless if the meringue is French, Swiss, or Italian. You macaronnage until you see no more bubbles in the batter and it develops the full shine that the chef mentions in this video.
@@GeminiAmbience Why did I think a convection would be bad for my macarons? So, it will be safe and bake more evenly?I keep having trouble with my tops browning too fast around the edges, yet they are not ready. Maybe this is the answer. I can turn convection bake on in my oven.
@@ericamarie6679 yes, convection ovens are much better for macarons (as well as many other types of patisserie) due to the even distribution of the air. I bought a convection oven just for my mac orders, and the results are incredibly different. Much more even bake, with better feet formation. When you use a convection oven, always lower the baking temperature listed in the recipe by around 10-15 degrees until you find the best temperature for your macs. When the shells discolor or brown, it means the oven is too hot. I hope this helps!
@@GeminiAmbience Thank you! That s very helpful! My convection auto adjusts. I set them temp I intend and it changes it for me. The current recipe I use adds salt to the egg whites. I didn't realize that is bad. They alway bake perfect, aside from the browning of lighter colors. I am going to try this Italian method , but can it be halved? Its a lot of cookie shells and I don't need that many. Any ideas if it's safe to half it? Thanks again!
I've never not sifted those ingredients after blending together. Usually do it 3x they didn't do it at all good time saver!
My 12 year old is on her quest to make the perfect MACARONS, she’s doing pretty good.
im on the same quest lately! i want to excel on it!! :D
@Bee Truong me too im 12 and im making them today!
Am I your daughter 🤭🤯 jk jk...unless....
17 year old here! Does your daughter have any tips on mastering them? Mine always have cracks in them 😢
I’m 12 too and I’ve been trying to do the same thing
Honestly I tried this at home and its amazing. Its just the meringue part is very difficult so maybe in next video pls help us on that part.
He said cook for 7 minutes then rotate. Rotate them how?
@@tjrejor I'm just guessing (from personal experience) that he means to turn the pan/mat 180 degrees in the oven. My oven heats unevenly between the back and front, so my macarons in the front were perfect and ones in the back were getting burnt. I started rotating (quickly and carefully) halfway through my bake - and that solved the problem! This is really just a guess though. I always assumed a chef's oven would be much more homogenous in temp than my home oven.
the best teacher how to make macaron for beginer
will be trying out for my channel and restaurants
Have you made them yet chef?
This is the only way of making macarons that has actually work for me
@GeminiAmbience
What are your thoughts about silicone mat vs parchment paper? Also, do you use a sheet pan or a flat baking sheet?
are you using convection oven and what temperature
Wow he’s the chef 👨🍳 I being waiting to find to start making my macaroons 🙏😊thank you chef 👨🍳 New subscriber
Belissimo
We are going French today.
And then make a Italian macaron recipe. 🤣 That was funny. Great work tho and nice video ❤️
I failed so many macarons. I failed one yesterday 😅😆 I'll finally try the Italian meringue next time 😤😆😘
Such a helpful video! Thanks! One question, did he mention the quantities of almonds flour , powdered sugar an regular sugar?
WOWWWWW !
Love his accent
Nicely done.... Looked like little hamburgers when you got done because of the colors
May I ask you guys to please add the recepie in the description because the link you add in the link is not current as in the video he is using different measurement and it is mentioned that you need to add salt . Please can you add the right measurements below
Im gonna make my own macarons tonight for the first time
How was it
Inverst in an accurate oven thermometer. You won't regret spending the money.
I know he is a master but I was very surprised when he did not sift the flour! the almond flour often has big chunks in it! maybe it was pre-sifted before the video? but that step is very important!
He ran it through the food processor, which may have chopped it up enough to get rid of clumps.
Yes same I've always been taught to sift at least 3x
🧐 umm, French macaron with Italian menrigue. About 100 with 160 gram? 🤗have to try this. Thank you for sharing!
I also followed his recipe and the macaroons came out great (well most of them, some I messed up while piping). They taste great as well, I’d like to half the recipe but wonder if it would work…
A new channel!
Nice chef
I just watched a video that explains the difference between the French and Italian Macaron and this is the Italian method using hot sugar syrup. Weird that a French chef would be demonstrating the Italian method.
The chef was demonstrate Italian MERINGUE technique vs the French MERINGUE technique. The Italian version uses the hot syrup that essentially cooks the eggs whites creating a more stable meringue. Italian macaron are called amaretti and they are usually cooked to a crispy texture as compared the softer chewier texture of a French Macaron. Many pastry chefs use an Italian meringue for their French Macaron recipes because it produces that much more stable meringue.
What brand of cookware are you using
Nice too good
Could we put different colours by separating the Mixture?
So, did you mix the half of the egg whites with flour and the other half with hot syrup?
No tendras la receta con cantidades??? ; ) gracias
I died a little when he mixed his hands in the batter without wearing gloves but still a very informative video
I think I’m one of the many people that actually did this recipe! this made actually, a lot and it turned out great! Obviously not fully foolproof, since most of the incorporation and techniques are done on your behalf, like the macaronage , you can’t use a stand mixer or whisk because it will whip the air bubbles out, and you want to keep the air bubbles in, and then you have to let the surface of the Macarons dry so those air bubbles don’t rise from the top, and that’s what the baker mentions in the video. in letting the surface dry, that’s where you get the ripples on the sides at the bottom of the macaron. A lot of the steps are very crucial, but you usually just need to know how to do it to usually get it right. :)
How would the recipe change if you're adding coco powder to make chocolate macarons?
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His meringue is SOFT PEEK!!!! most of YT channel is used stiff peek. Maybe Soft peek Meringue is the key. IDK maybe. Might give a try sometime
it just means you fold less. It does work but gives much less room for failure (over mixing = definite fail, no room for ant mistake). since his batch is HUGE it is better to make soft peak meringue. Also, it's almost impossible to get Italian meringues to stiff peaks like french or swiss because of the way it is built, i've only made italian macs once so i can't speak for all but that one time i over-mixed but it was still just soft peak, but the macs were ok. Italian is also very stable so you don't need to have super stiff peaks.
Because he adds the cooked sugar it changes how the merengue acts. If you add raw sugar you need to do a stiffer merengue
how many egg whites are you putting into your mixture?
125g
does anyone know how long I should leave the shells to dry before it goes into the oven? I see people saying (on other recipe videos) anywhere from 20 mins to an hour?
It depends on the temperature of where you are. The warmer it is the longer you’ll need to leave them. But you’ll definitely know when they are done.
@Megan Welty thank you!
@@vsmoxs8382 thank you!
When you can gently touch the tops they are ready to get into oven. And yes, time of resting depends on temperature in your kitchen. Good luck! ☺️
Is it possible to half this recipe? I know some recipes don’t work well if you cut them in half or double them.
I try to make macaron tonight and guess what.. Hahahaha 😂😂😂😂 I ended up Trowing I thought it's easy to do it's so hard..
Can I add these to Doritos Consomme for a French kick?
👍
Do we have to add hot sugar syrup or room temperature
For Italian, it’s hot sugar syrup in the meringue
Never got my mixture to turn into a paste as shown. My mix stayed crumbly. I even weighed all my ingredients and let my eggs age at least 24hrs. Otherwise everything else seemed to work fine. Would love to know what is going on.
Ist right to finish your syrup before meringue why
Thanks
With the melted sugar part, it’s almost like making French buttercream, except instead of yolks, you are using egg whites and no butter :)
How many egg whites does he add to the almond flour and powdered sugar?
At which point would you add flavoring?
When I drizzle sugar down the side of the bowl it clumps up on the side and half of it became hard on the bottom and did not get incorporated... Any tips?
Are you using a candy thermometer that sits in the sugar/water mixture easily? Your mixture may be getting too hot.
You can heat up the egg/hardened sugar mixture over bain marie, as in swiss meringue, just have to whisk it constantly so that you don't cook your egg nor it gets too hot, once you feel like your sugar is dissolved again you can put it back to the mixer and whip it up
French master should make French macrons😂