With just a few ingredients, you can bake up your own batch of amazingly light and crisp macaron cookies at home. Enjoy the pastries on their own, or sandwich a dollop of your favorite frosting or jam between two of them.

How To Make Five-Ingredient Macarons Recipe
Take a nibble at this crisp and light five ingredient macaroni recipe. With only five ingredients you can make jewel like cookies with your favorite jams.
Ingredients
- 1¾ cups powdered sugar
- 1 cup almond meal
- 3 egg whites, at room temperature
- ¼ cup granulated sugar
- ¾ tsp salt
To serve:
- orange marmalade, or any jams, marmalades, stiff custard or creams
Instructions
- Line baking sheets with parchment paper.
- Combine powdered sugar, salt, and almond meal in a food processor.
- Pulse in 15 second bursts until very fine, being careful to avoid pulsing too much as it will release the oils from the almond meal and make it clump.
- Once very fine, sift your almond mixture and set it aside.
- In another medium-sized mixing bowl, use an electric mixer set to medium speed to beat the egg whites until bubbles start to form.
- Increase speed to high and gradually add the granulated sugar until stiff peaks form.
- Gently fold the almond flour mixture into the egg whites until evenly incorporated.
- Spoon meringue into a large piping bag with a round tip or your choice of the nozzle.
- Pipe roughly 1½ inch wide disks inches apart from each other. Set these aside, fully exposed at room temperature, for at least an hour until their glossy shine is gone and a dry surface coats all meringues. You should be able to brush a finger on it without leaving any fingerprints.
- Preheat your oven to 300 degrees F while waiting for your meringue to dry out.
- Bake for about 17 to 19 minutes. You should see 'feet' rising upward, which is a good sign. Bake until macarons are firm and their surfaces have dried.
- Let cookies cool completely while on the baking sheet for at least 30 minutes before peeling them off the parchment paper.
- To complete, spread a filling of your choice, roughly 1 tablespoon of filling per assembled macaron, then cover it like a sandwich. Keep your macarons chilled until ready to serve.
Nutrition
- Sugar: 116g
- :
- Calcium: 157mg
- Calories: 900kcal
- Carbohydrates: 131g
- Fat: 37g
- Fiber: 8g
- Iron: 3mg
- Potassium: 98mg
- Protein: 22g
- Saturated Fat: 3g
- Sodium: 221mg
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