Chocolate Macarons

MACAROONS! one of my favorite french pastries!! you can be very creative with it by adding all kinds of flavors. This is my first time baking macaroons so I started out with the basic yet delicious one... Chocolate!

Ingredients:

40g ground almonds (avalible at Big Bakery Siam Square soi2 or you can just mash sliced almonds)

75g icing sugar

10g cocoa powder

1 egg white

10g sugar

2 drops red food coloring

100g "all purpose chocolate sauce" click on my link below for recipe

http://cookiejarandcrackerbar.blogspot.com/2011/03/all-purpose-chocolate-sauce.html

In advance: prepare a baking sheet covered it with silicone paper

preheat the oven at 160c

1) combine ground almonds, icing sugar, and cocoa powder in a bowl2)sift them through a fine-mash sieve several times
3) whisk egg white.

4) when they begin to hold their shape, gradually add the sugar and continue to whisk until the white is firm

5) add the food coloring, drop by drop

6)mix gently with a flexible spatula until the color is uniform

7)slowly sprinkle the dry ingredients a little at a time

8)work carefully. you wanna end up with an evenly blended mixture.

9)fill a piping bag and form small macarons. well spaced on prepared baking sheet.
10)bake them for 10-15min

11) leave the macaroons in the warmest part of the room to form a crust. press lightly on one macaron to check that it is no longer sticks.

12) tranfer it from the baking sheet. put a knob of chocolate sauce in the center of the flat side of a shell. then press the flat side of a 2nd one onto the sauce.

ENJOY!