Black Sesame Macarons
These chewy black sesame macarons are flavored with crushed black sesame seeds in the shell and a sweet, salty sesame seed paste filling.
- Prep time
- 36 min
- Cook time
- 1 hr 24 min
- Yield
- 32 servings
- Difficulty
- HARD
Ingredients
Quantities are shown as originally provided.
- 125 g almond flour
- 225 g powdered’ sugar
- 130 g egg whites (4 large egg whites)
- 110 g sugar
- Black food gel coloring
- 1 1/2 cup black sesame seeds (lightly toasted)
- 5 oz. honey
Instructions
- 1
Before you do anything: In a blender or food processor, blitz 1 1/4 cup of the sesame seeds just to break them up a little bit. Then reserve 1/4 cup for the batter. (You'll need the other cup for the filling.)
- 2
When the egg whites are whipped to soft-peaks, add just a drop of the black gel food coloring.
- 3
When you begin the macaronage (or, folding together the egg whites and the dry ingredients) fold in 1/4 cup of the crushed sesame seeds.
- 4
After piping them out, sprinkle sesame seeds over the tops of half the shells.
- 5
In the blender or food processor, continue grinding the sesame seeds until it looks like a nut butter.
- 6
Add the honey and continue processing until it's a shiny, thick paste. If you think it's too thick to pipe, add another tablespoon of honey.
- 7
Pipe a dime-sized mound of sesame paste on all the bottoms.
- 8
Place on the tops and press lightly to sandwich the filling. Enjoy!