Pimp That Snack

Daddy Macaroon

Ingredients:
560g Ground almonds
1.1kg Icing sugar
100g Cocoa powder
16 Egg whites
pinch of salt
750g Dark chocolate
200ml Water

Cost:
£15.93

Step one – Sift the ground almonds, icing sugar and cocoa powder in to a pimped bowl.

Cocoa powder tipped from a scoop onto a huge bowl of sifted almonds and icing sugar

Step two – Whisk the egg whites and pinch of salt in another bowl or an electric whisk machine until in turns white and cloud like.

Step three – Combine the sifted dry goods with the whisked egg white, be careful not to beat it too hard.

Thick beige macaroon batter being beaten with a wooden spoon in a large steel bowl

Step four – Fill a pimping bag with mixture and pimp on to a large tray with a non stick mat, wait 2 minutes for it to form a skin and put in a pre heated oven at 200 c for 20 minutes. Repeat this process for the other half of the Daddy Mac – aroon.

Gloved hands holding a bulging piping bag over the mixing bowl as batter drops in

Step five – Wait around a bit and look pensively in the oven every now and again.

Two dinner-plate-sized rounds of macaroon batter piped onto silicone mats on baking trays

Step six – Put the dark chocolate in a bowl and boil the water in a pan. Pour the water on the chocolate and whisk till melted. Then whisk the mixtued over ice until thick.

Dark chocolate ganache being whisked in a metal bowl sitting over a second bowl

Step seven – When cooked cool the 2 giganto halves and put the chocolate mix in a pimping bag.

Ganache piped in a wide spiral across a giant macaroon half on a white board

Step eight – Pimp the chocolate mix on 1 of the giganto halves, top with the other, stand back and say ‘Thats the Daddy of all Macaroons, the Mac, The Big Mac good work fella!’

The assembled giant macaroon behind a normal-sized macaroon on a white board for scale

Chef in whites gawping and giving a thumbs up beside the giant macaroon and its tiny original

Chef thumbs up across a commercial kitchen, giant macaroon and a normal one on the counter

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