Macarons for My Sister

Sorry I have not been posting lately, I have been busy with homework and other family commitments. In early September 2014, it was my sisters' birthdays and I made Macarons. The difference between a Macaroon and a Macaron or French Macaroon is that a Macaroon is a small coconut cookie and a Macaron or French Macaroon is a sandwich cookie with those infamous feet around the bottom of each cookie. Here are the pictures of how I did it.

 Making my own Almond Flour/Meal

Adding raw slivered almonds into the blender.

Almonds after being ground.

Completed Almond Meal

         Be careful not to over blend or use a food processor

for the almond flour. If you do, the almonds will 

release their oils and form a paste instead of flour.

Making Caster Sugar (Superfine Sugar)

Putting normal Granulated Sugar in the food processor.

Completed Superfine Sugar.

Be sure to put more sugar than the recipe calls for,
into the processor because some sugar will completely
be ground to nothingness.

All Ingredients and Tools

Piping Bag

Sifting the Powdered Sugar and Almond Flour

Whipping the Meringue

Combining the Meringue and Powdered Ingredients for the Vanilla Macarons

Piping the Cookies

Making the Chocolate Cookies

Piping the Chocolate Cookies

Finished Cookies

Making the Fillings

Vanilla Filling from here to next caption.

Raspberry Filling

Filling the Cookies

Well there you have some GREAT French Macaroons!

It was past 10:00 pm so my smile was kind of weird.