Macaron recipes
Show off your culinary skills with a batch of pretty pastel macarons. They're a small light biscuit, crunchy outside and soft inside, made with ground almonds, sugar and egg whites. Macarons are sometimes flavoured with additional ingredients such as coffee, chocolate, nuts or fruit. They鈥檙e particularly good made with freshly ground blanched almonds. Ratafia biscuits are tiny macarons with almond extract added.
by Edd Kimber
Macarons are tricky. There鈥檚 no getting around it, but it鈥檚 what makes them special. This Italian meringue technique helps to stabilise the sugar and egg white to give you a fighting chance.