If you've read my blog for awhile, you might remember my many failed attempts at making macarons. By the time I got good enough to do a tutorial, I was basically worn out. Recently I decided that I wanted to start making them again but was curious about finding an easier and more predictable recipe, so I went for a little stroll around the internet for some help and found two great tutorials at Brave Tart and Eat Live Travel Write. Both of these recipes use a KitchenAid mixer, give specific beating times, and have a lot of troubleshooting suggestions. The Eat Live Travel Write one worked best for me. So far I have made two perfect batches in a row, which was basically unheard of in my former life. If you've never made macarons and want to start, then these tutorials are definitely for you. Oh, and I also used this template so that I didn't have to trace 48 circles.
Here's what I did with my finished macs: Salted Caramel Macarons
I started with plain macaron shells and then used this recipe for Salted Caramel Buttercream (I used the Trader Joe's caramel sauce...there's no way I was going to stand over the stove all day and make homemade caramel). I piped the icing around the edge of one half of each pair.
Then I piped some of the actual sauce into the middle of each circle.
Lids on ladies!
Perfect little macaron. It only took 1,048 bad ones to get there.
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