Almond does not lose its popularity and keeps its customers. Shop counters offer a variety of these types of cookies, depending on the recipe. Different countries have different cookie names. We offer classic macaroons in several variations.

1. Simple French macaroons

We prepare the minimum set of products:

• 130 grams of crushed almonds or almond flour;
• 1.5 tbsp. Sahara;
• 3 chicken egg whites;
• 1/3 Art. wheat flour.

Cooking process:

Pour dry ingredients into a dry container: almonds, sugar. Pour the prepared egg whites into the almond-sugar mass. Take a spoon, whisk or mixer and mix the mixture.

Then we place the dish with the mass in a water bath and heat it up to about 45 C. The mixture will thicken. It is then that you need to add the last fourth ingredient - flour.

Quickly knead the dough and decide how we will decorate the nut cookies. You can use a piping bag or spoon the dough directly onto baking paper on a baking sheet.

The oven should warm up gradually while you are forming the cookies.

The dessert is baked for about 12-15 minutes.

After removing the baking sheet from the oven, let the dessert cool down. During this time, you can make tea or coffee, the application to which today will be macaroons. Its calorie content is minimal in comparison with butter biscuits. Therefore, people who care about their shape can not worry, but include such an amazing homemade delicacy in their morning breakfast.

2. Almond biscuits in accordance with GOST USSR

Macaroons dough can be made according to GOST, a good old recipe.

We will need 4 products again:

• 135 g unpeeled almonds;
• 35 g of premium flour;
• 1 cup of sugar;
• three egg whites.

Cooking instructions

Almond preparation

At this stage, we need a blender. Take wet, unpeeled nuts and grind them in the bowl of the technique.

Merging all the constituent parts of the cookie

Sprinkle chopped nuts in a dry bowl with sugar and stir. Then add the egg whites. The resulting composition must be whipped thoroughly. If you don't know how to make fluffy dough using a whisk, you need a powerful mixer.

Dough preparation stage

Don't be intimidated by the batter. The required temperature will help it thicken when heated. To do this, we need additional kitchen utensils: a saucepan with a capacious multilayer bottom. We pour all the liquid mass there. Use a spoon to move the dough to another container. Now we turn on the gas, or the electric stove.

Be sure to set your hotplate to a medium setting before heating the dough. You can simply find out the required temperature by touching the dough with your finger. To the touch, the correct dough will be warm, not scalding the skin. A prerequisite for heating is constant stirring of the mixture. To do this, use a wooden spatula.

Make sure that the dough does not stick to the base of the pot. The taste of the future dessert will depend on this. After making sure that the mixture is ready, remove the saucepan from the stove and pour the mixture into a bowl of flour. Knead the dough with quick hand movements.

Baking gost cookies

At home, it is not always possible to bake the same smooth cookies as special equipment of industrial confectionery enterprises does. To prevent cookies from looking like fluffy cakes, prepare a pastry bag in advance. If you want the classic round cookie cutter shapes, then stick with a regular kitchen spoon. Regardless of the method chosen, the baking process will be the same in duration.

So, option 1 involves squeezing the test figures onto the parchment covering the surface of the baking sheet. Some housewives use a thick plastic bag, the edge of which is cut off with scissors.

Supporters of option 2 can safely spread the dough on a baking sheet with a spoon. In this case, the main thing is to keep the distance between the products. Under the influence of the increased temperature of the oven, the dough will begin to increase in size.

If you are confused by the unevenness of the cookies, you can adjust the edges by dipping a baking brush in a mug of chilled water and lightly brushing over the relief of each product.

Now you should send the baking sheet to the oven preheated to 180 C. You will have to wait about 15 minutes until the cookies acquire a golden brownish hue.

Serving dessert

After removing the cookies from the oven, place them on a cooling plate. GOST standards assume health care, because hot food harms the human body. You can savor such a delicacy with different drinks. Coffee with cream, herbal, fruit teas, juice, compote will be successfully combined with such a dessert.

Choose a drink from the time of the meal: you serve it for breakfast, afternoon tea or dinner. The macaroons are sweet. If you're not a sweet tooth, macaroons can be made with a reduced amount of granulated sugar.

3. Almond cookies from Julia Vysotskaya in Italian

Among modern housewives, the recipe for almond cookies from Julia Vysotskaya is popular.

A well-known TV presenter suggests using the following ingredients in a set of products:

• 0.25 kg of crushed almonds;
• 0.12 kg sugar;
• some water;
• 140 g icing sugar;
• 0.1 kg of corn flour;
• orange peel;
• 3 tbsp. l. flour;
• 1.5 tsp baking powder.

How to cook

We cook syrup from 40 ml of water and sugar.

Separately combine almonds with orange zest and flour, pour syrup there. Mix the mass and remove in the cold.

Then we turn on the oven. Into the dough, add the whipped mixture of proteins and powdered sugar.

Mix the cornmeal with the remaining powdered sugar.

Cookies prepared with a spoon are rolled in such a mass, laid out on a baking sheet and baked for about 42 minutes.

The biscuits are brittle, tender and aromatic.

4. Austrian chocolate macaroons with cherries

There are three options for baking this truly fantastic dessert in taste and aroma: in the form of cookies - the dough is placed on parchment with a spoon, in the form of muffins (baked in muffin tins) and as a casserole.

According to the same recipe, some restaurants bake cakes for the Black Forest cake. So, try making simple cookies and save the recipe to your favorites.

Ingredients:

• 50 g dark chocolate;
• 75 g butter;
• 75 g almonds;
• 50 g sugar;
• 25 g flour;
• 1 egg;
• 1 tbsp rum or 2 drops of essence;
• 80 g pitted cherries;
• Powdered sugar for dusting or icing.

Preparation:

Melt the chocolate and butter together over low heat, add sugar and rum. Stir until sugar dissolves.

Dry the almonds in a pan or in the oven and grind them - you can use a rolling pin, or through a meat grinder. Add nuts and flour to the chocolate mixture and stir.

Beat the egg until froth and add portions to the dough, kneading well.

Cover the baking sheet with parchment and a tablespoon at a distance to spread the future cookies. Put several cherries on each island.

Bake for 20-25 minutes at 180 degrees.

Cool the baked goods and sprinkle with icing sugar or chocolate icing.

5. Cuban macaroons for breakfast Almendrados

These cookies are prepared so quickly that they can be baked right for coffee in the morning, some ingredients can be prepared in the evening.

Components:

• 100 g flour;
• 100 g butter;
• 10 g oatmeal;
• 10 g wheat flakes;
• 15 g of honey;
• 50 g almonds;
• 20 whole almonds
• 50 g sugar;
• 0.5 tsp baking powder;
• 25 g of dark chocolate.

Preparation:

1. Chop the toasted almonds. Chop the chocolate into small pieces or rub through a coarse grater.
2. Soften the butter and beat with sugar, then add honey and beat a little more.
3. Add nuts, chocolate, cereal, baking powder, flour, notice the dough.
4. Form balls and not each put a whole nut on top, half drowning it in the dough.
5. Bake for 15 minutes at 180 degrees.

We wish you a pleasant tea party at the friendly family table!

Mavrianna Pavley