Sweet macaroons, colorful tabletop snacks

Often on New Years Eve We are already a little fed up with the traditional Christmas sweets and we like to give the end of the year a more original, festive and fun touch. To have a colorful and childish desktop we can serve some of the striking drinks without alcohol for children that we have been proposing at Recipe for celebratory after-dinner parties.

As companions to these cocktails, we are going to teach you how to prepare some cupcakes that, due to their shape and color, will cause a sensation among the little ones at the party. It's about the macaroni, not the pasta but some sweets made from egg whites, sugar and almonds that are baked and acquire a crunchy texture on the outside but fluffy and meringue on the inside. To enhance its flavor and color, ingredients such as strawberries, chocolate, hazelnuts or lemon are added.

Sweet macaroons, colorful tabletop snacks

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• Ángela

• Recipe type: dessert
• Rations: 25

• Total time:

Ingredients

• 480 grams of icing sugar
• 280 grams of ground almonds
• Egg whites 7
• Flavors
• Dyes
• Cream to fill

Preparation

1. Sift the icing sugar together with the ground almonds.

2. We assemble the egg whites until stiff.

3. Immediately sprinkle the mixture of sugar and almonds over the egg whites and gently stir from the center to the edges with a wooden spoon until a smooth dough is obtained.

4. We flavor the dough with the ingredient we want (zests, cocoa powder, coffee, ground hazelnuts) or we apply color with a food coloring.

5. In a tray with non-stick paper we put the dough with the help of a pastry bag making round shapes the size of a tea paste. We let it rest for a quarter of an hour at room temperature.

6. Then we put in the oven at 180º for approximately 9 minutes.

7. We spread a chosen cream on a macaroon that goes well with its flavor (jam, cocoa cream and hazelnuts, etc.) and cover with another cake.