{"id":13629,"date":"2016-12-26T23:51:44","date_gmt":"2016-12-26T23:51:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/?p=13629"},"modified":"2021-07-04T15:26:53","modified_gmt":"2021-07-04T22:26:53","slug":"macaroon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/macaroon\/","title":{"rendered":"Macaroon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The main thing is to use good ingredients.&nbsp; It really makes a difference.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>6 Egg whites<\/li>\n<li>1 C sugar<\/li>\n<li>1 tsp cream of tartar<\/li>\n<li>1\/2 tsp salt\n<ul>\n<li>Next ingredients for Step One<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>1\/2 C Powdered sugar<\/li>\n<li>1\/2 C Almond meal &#8211; ground very fine (Bob&#8217;s Red Mill) about like flour or corn starch<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Step by Step<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Sift together powdered sugar and almond meal &#8211; set aside<\/li>\n<li>Whip egg whites for three minutes<\/li>\n<li>Add sugar and cream of tartar<\/li>\n<li>Continue to whip until soft peaks form<\/li>\n<li>Add vanilla and (optional) food coloring and mix to incorporate.<\/li>\n<li>Fold in almond mixture<\/li>\n<li>Fold in 1\/3 of your egg whites\n<ol>\n<li>Mix to incorprate and then repeat Step 7 twice more<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Consistency should be like a thick pancake batter (or thin cookie dough)<\/li>\n<li>Prepare a sheet of parchment paper on a baking sheet &#8211; you can draw circles on the BACK of the parchment paper to help with your layout.<\/li>\n<li>Put mixture into a piping bag and pipe as closely to the same size as possible<\/li>\n<li>Drop pan on the counter a few times to remove air bubbles<\/li>\n<li>Caramel will cook at 325\u00ba for 15 minutes<\/li>\n<li>Chocolate will cook at 350\u00ba for 15 minutes<br \/>\nTexture of the inside should be soft, not hard<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>OPTIONAL MODIFICATIONS<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Caramel &#8211; filled with buttercreme<\/li>\n<li>Chocolate &#8211; filled with chocolate ganache<br \/>\nHeavy cream over chocolate chips<\/li>\n<li>Raspberry &#8211; filled with jam<\/li>\n<li>Lemon &#8211; filled with lemon curd<\/li>\n<li>Lime &#8211; filled with lime curd<\/li>\n<li>Mint Chocolate Chip &#8211; mint butter cream<\/li>\n<li>Strawberry &#8211; strawberry butter cream<\/li>\n<li>Pistchio &#8211; pistachio butter cream<\/li>\n<li>Espresso &#8211; butter cream<\/li>\n<li>Coconut<\/li>\n<li>Orange<\/li>\n<li>Rum and raisin<\/li>\n<li>Banana and chocolate&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>Mix vodka and food coloring and wipe on cookies<br \/>\nSprinkle with Turbinado sugar<\/li>\n<li>Assemble with jam in between two cookies<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The main thing is to use good ingredients.&nbsp; It really makes a difference. 6 Egg whites 1 C sugar 1 tsp cream of tartar 1\/2 tsp salt Next ingredients for Step One 1\/2 C Powdered sugar 1\/2 C Almond meal &#8211; ground very fine (Bob&#8217;s Red Mill) about like flour or corn starch Step by &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/macaroon\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Macaroon&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-snack"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13629"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21896,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13629\/revisions\/21896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}