Thanks to its wonderful taste, charming cakes in the form of two cream-bonded halves won the love of sweet tooth around the world. In Russia, this dessert is called differently - macrons, macaroons, macarons. Moreover, most of the population already knows that this is not about pasta at all. Is there a simple pasta cake recipe that could be implemented at home?

The history of the origin of French sweets

Macarons - a confectionery product made in the form of 2 rounded halves, connected by jam or jam. Macaroni have various taste and color shades and is distinguished by a complex recipe full of various subtleties and requiring certain skills from the cook. The paradox is that the list of ingredients for creating goodies is quite simple - the cake is prepared on the basis of proteins, powdered sugar, almond flour and food colors.

The history of the origin of paired cookies is still unclear. There are more than a dozen different hypotheses of their origin, the most popular of which claims that the "ancestors" of macrons appeared in Venice in the Renaissance. In France, they became popular thanks to Catherine de Medici - it was this princess who brought her confectioner to the country for her marriage to Henry II. Since then, the treat has become a popular dish of local cuisine and has gradually migrated to other European countries.

Serving round sweets included an entire ceremony.At receptions and balls, servants carried trays with spaced porcelain saucers, on the surface of which lay macrons. The court ladies loved the cakes and preferred to drink them with liquor or chocolate. Even the famous Marie Antoinette could not resist the spell of macarons. Being delighted with delicacies, she named her beloved cat in his honor.

The original form of macaroons was different from the present. The cake looked like a spherical almond mass.

The idea to split the pasta came up with Pierre Deconte, the owner of the Ladurée confectionery, and this approach turned out to be a real culinary breakthrough. Since then, confectioners began to experiment with layers for cake and variations of various tastes and aromas of the product.

The question remains open, can I make a pasta cake at home? Confectioners assure that it is possible, and there are several recipes for preparing this delicacy.

Classic Macaroni cakes (macaron)

This recipe for making small round sweets is considered basic. Other types of colored pasta cakes are also prepared on its basis.

Ingredients:

  • almond flour - 125 g or 110 g of almonds;
  • proteins - 95 g;
  • icing sugar - 125 g;
  • sugar - 150 g;
  • food coloring - optional.

Cooking:

  1. Flour, combined with icing sugar and sift through a sieve. Repeat the procedure twice. Tip. You can take ready-made almond flour or cook it yourself. To do this, almonds should be peeled, dried and chopped in a blender or in a food processor. The resulting powder can be used as flour.
  2. Beat the proteins with a mixer until soft peaks form, slowly introduce sugar, gradually making the peaks stiff. Add the dye of the desired color.
  3. Introduce about a third of the mixed bulk components into the whipped proteins and mix using a spatula. Add the rest of the mixture and mix again.
  4. The resulting mass must be filled into a pastry bag and squeezed on the parchment the same round billets with a diameter of about 3 cm.
  5. Future pasta is left outdoors for about 20 minutes. This time is necessary for cooling the workpieces. Tip. Before sending dessert into the oven, you need to determine the degree of readiness of the halves for baking. To do this, gently touch the surface of one of the circles - the dough can be sent to the oven if the finger remains completely clean. Otherwise, you need to wait another 15 minutes.
  6. Send the “ripened” macaroons to the oven, where they will be baked at a temperature of 150 degrees.
  7. The cake remains in the oven for about a quarter of an hour. After this time, the oven lid needs to be slightly opened, and after another minute turn off the device. Allow the pasta to cool and separate from the parchment only after it has cooled completely.

Cake blanks are ready. It remains only to fasten them with a suitable filling.

Chocolate Ganache Recipe

Fragrant chocolate cream called ganache - the perfect filling for air pasta.

The recipe can be divided into two parts:

  1. Cooking cakes according to the basic recipe.
  2. Making chocolate ganache.

Ganash is prepared using dark chocolate and cream with a high percentage of fat content.

  1. Chocolate (100 g) is first broken into pieces and mixed with 100 ml of cream.
  2. The ingredients are mixed with a spatula, and then the container in which the mass is located must be wrapped with cling film and sent to the refrigerator for 12 hours.
  3. After this time, delicious chocolate ganache can be used to glue pasta halves.

Lemon Flavored

Bright, life-affirming lemon macaroons not only delight the eye, but also sweeten the taste with wonderful refreshing notes.

The peculiarity of the dish lies in its layer. It is superimposed between halves of baked pasta according to the classic recipe.

To prepare the cream you will need 100 g of butter, 30 grams of powdered sugar and the juice of one small lemon. The cooking process is quite simple.

  1. Beat the butter with a mixer, slowly adding powdered sugar.
  2. Add lemon juice at the end.
  3. Put the finished cream on one half of pasta, place the second on top.

Tip. Before serving pasta on the table, they are recommended to stand in the refrigerator for a day.

Colored pastries “Macaroni” with strawberries

The secret of gorgeous colored pasta with strawberries lies in the original combination of jam and ganache. They are specially prepared for exfoliating bright red halves of sweets.

To make the filling you will need the following ingredients:

  • strawberries - 300 g;
  • "Zhelfiks" (a special culinary mixture containing pectin) - 15 g;
  • vanilla - 1 pod;
  • cream (fatty) - 100 ml;
  • sugar;
  • food coloring (red).

Stages of preparation of the filling:

  1. Grind strawberries in mashed potatoes with a blender. Take 70 g for ganache from the total mass, pour the rest into a separate container.
  2. Mix Zhelfiks with 50 g of sugar and pour into strawberry puree, mixing the contents with a spatula.
  3. Put the container on fire, bring the mixture to a boil, having stood for two to three minutes. The future jam should thicken during this time, after which it should be poured into another container and left to cool.
  4. At this time, you can cook ganache. Pour the cream into a stewpan and bring to a boil. To the resulting mass add seeds scraped from the vanilla pod and a crushed bar of chocolate. Mix the ingredients (chocolate should melt completely).
  5. Add to the ganache previously deferred 70g of strawberry puree. All components are mixed well again.
  6. Cook pasta according to the classic recipe. On one of the ready-made halves, apply ganache over the entire area, drip jam in the middle and cover with the second half.

Cooking with Coconut

Another variant of unusually tasty half-cakes with exotic coconut flavor.

Ingredients:

  • proteins - 100 g;
  • sugar - 50 g;
  • almond flour - 50 g;
  • coconut flour - 50 g;
  • icing sugar - 200 g;
  • salt is a pinch.

Cooking:

  1. Stir loose ingredients in a bowl. They can be sifted through a sieve twice or beat for 30 seconds in a blender. If desired, you can add the dye of the desired color.
  2. Beat the whites with a pinch of salt until soft peaks. Gradually introducing sugar, continue to beat the mass until stable peaks and a pearly shade are obtained. Pour dry ingredients into the mixture and stir in a quick circular motion.
  3. Fill a pastry bag with dough and form small circles on a baking sheet covered with parchment. Let the pasta stand for about 30 minutes.
  4. Send the baking sheet to the oven, bake for 10 minutes at a temperature of 150 degrees, then remove and allow the products to cool. Separate the treat from the parchment and refrigerate.

Calorie ready desserts

The calorie content of this dessert is quite high - the average indicators are within 289 kilocalories. With a relatively low protein content (1.5 g), pasta contains a lot of fat (20 g) and an impressive amount of carbohydrates - as much as 51.5 g.

Note. The calorie content of the cake may vary depending on the filling layer. So, for 100 grams of lemon pasta, there are 370 calories, coconut - 311, etc.

Macaron is a magnificent miniature delicacy that has come to us since ancient times. Since then, the cake has been constantly changing, there are new tastes and recipes for sweets. To date, macaroons have become a popular and sought-after product in a network of cafes and pastry shops around the world. And especially the "advanced" housewives have already learned how to cook them at home.

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