Thursday 28 June 2012

Tips on Baking Macaron

If you are fond of eating sweets and you do not know how to make them, then this article is surely going to help you out. Baking cakes, cupcakes and pastries is not an easy process. You need to learn a lot of important things if you want to get ultimate results of your baking. Baking macaron is a difficult thing as well. A lot of things need to be handled carefully when you are deciding to go for baking macarons for your friends and family. Few of the things that have to be kept in mind while baking macarons are as follows:

Complete knowledge of the recipe

The basic thing to be known is the recipe. You must have a complete knowledge of the complete ingredients, their proportion that have to be mixed in the recipe and the entire methodology of how to bake it. It is suggested to write the entire recipe on a piece of paper or on your personal diary. To get the desirable results, you have to follow the same pattern as is suggested by the chef or the book from where you have heard about it. In case of macarons, cookies are the most important ingredients to be made. Eggs, sugar, granulated sugar and almond meal are other basic ingredients that are need to be mixed in the required proportions.
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Use of equipments

You need to have a food processor, kitchen scales (for measurement of floor and other such ingredients), hand mixer, stainless steel bowls, spatula, pastry bag and round tip, parchment paper, baking sheets and mixing bowl to mix the ingredients of macarons. These are the basic ingredients which you will definitely require to bake your recipe of macarons.

Measurement of ingredients

Before mixing the ingredients, make sure that all of your ingredients are equally measured and are in the fixed proportions. Different tools are used to measure the ingredients. Make sure that the granulated sugar which you are mixing in your recipe is measured accurately, because a little change in the measurement changes the taste of the entire recipe. That is why baking is a very difficult thing which needs to be handled with a great care.

Baking

When all of your ingredients are mixed in equal proportions with the help of hand mixer, wrap them in baking sheets. Double the baking sheets and cover the baking sheets with parchment papers. Now place the entire material in the pastry bags and start making small circles of macarons on a pan. Do keep in mind to spray a layer of oil on the pan in order to avoid stickiness. It is wisely suggested to use non stick pan. Use thermometer ovens for baking macarons in order to set the temperature. Keep the macarons in the oven for 20 minutes. Use a preheated oven of 275 to 300 degrees.  After baking, you can add lemon curd or other cream flavors to add a divine touch to your macarons.

All these important points must be followed by you if you want to bake the tastiest macarons at your home.

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