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🍽️ Crunchy Chocolate Macarons with Cream Filling

399 kcal · 30 min · 4 servings

Ingredients

• 3 tbsp flour
• 200 g ground almond kernels
• 2 tsp cocoa powder
• 4 egg whites
• 250 g very fine sugar
• 150 g dark chocolate (70% cocoa content)
• 80 g whipping cream
• 20 g butter
• cocoa powder (for dusting)
• 200 g powdered sugar
• 2 tbsp lemon juice
• food coloring (to taste)
• colorful sprinkles
• sugar pearls

Instructions

1. 1. Preheat the oven to 130 degrees Celsius.
2. 2. Mix flour, ground almonds, and cocoa in a bowl.
3. 3. Whisk the egg whites in a separate bowl until stiff.
4. 4. Stir the sugar slowly into the egg whites.
5. 5. Continue whisking until the mixture is firm and glossy.
6. 6. Gently fold the flour mixture into the egg whites.
7. 7. Transfer the mixture to a piping bag fitted with a large round tip.
8. 8. Pipe small mounds about 2.5 centimeters in diameter onto a baking sheet lined with parchment paper.
9. 9. Bake the cookies in the preheated oven for about 40 minutes.
10. 10. Keep the oven door slightly ajar during baking.
11. 11. Remove the tray from the oven and let the cookies cool on it.
12. 12. Chop the chocolate coating into small pieces.
13. 13. Melt the chocolate carefully over a hot water bath.
14. 14. Whip the cream until stiff.
15. 15. Stir the butter in small pieces into the melted chocolate using a whisk.
16. 16. Let the chocolate cool slightly.
17. 17. Gently fold in the whipped cream into the chocolate mixture.
18. 18. Spread the filling onto half of the cooled cookies.
19. 19. Sandwich the cookies together with the remaining cookies.
20. 20. Allow the filling to set.
21. 21. Chop the remaining chocolate into small pieces.
22. 22. Melt it over a hot water bath.
23. 23. Let the chocolate cool slightly.
24. 24. Glaze the cookies with the cooled chocolate.
25. 25. Allow the glaze to set.
26. 26. Mix powdered sugar and lemon juice to form a thick icing.
27. 27. Color the icing with food coloring if desired.
28. 28. Pipe fun faces onto the cookies using a piping bag.
29. 29. Decorate them as you like with colorful sprinkles, sugar pearls, or other sweets.

Nutrition per serving

• kcal: 399
• Protein: 9 g · Fett/Fat: 23 g · Carbs: 42 g