Wednesday, October 5, 2011

Chocolate macaroons with walnut and orange

This recipe is not my own creation this time, it's from a very famous hungarian chef named Judit Stahl. I picked this recipe because I wanted to bake something small but delicious to have something to snack when I'm watching Lost in the evening. I doubled the amount of ingredients in the recipe because I was sure one batch wouldn't be enough. Turns out I was right...:) 


Ingredients for approx. 30 pieces
  • 2 egg whites
  • 2 big tablespoons of brown sugar
  • 1 tablespoon of whole wheat flour
  • 10 dkgs of walnuts
  • 16 dkgs of dark chocolate
  •  zest of 1 bigger orange
First I roasted the walnuts in a dry pan for a while because I took them out of the freezer and if you don't roast them they will keep this freezer taste that I don't really like. Then melt the chocolate over hot water. Add the sugar to the egg whites and beat them up until it's hard enough. Chop the walnuts fine and add it to the flour along with the zest of the orange. When it's done, add the flour mixture to the eggs, then the chocolate and stir it gently. Line baking paper into an oven pan and put teaspoon sized amounts of dough onto the pan. It needs 10 minutes at most at 175 deg Celsius. When you take it out from the oven it needs to be soft because when it cools down it will become crunchy on the outside and soft and creamy on the inside.