Pumpkin Spice French Macarons

If you want to add more Mediterranean recipes to your repertoire, Pumpkin Spice French Macarons might be a recipe you should try. This recipe makes 40 servings with 61 calories, 1g of protein, and 3g of fat each. For 17 cents per serving, this recipe covers 1% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. 8959 people were glad they tried this recipe. If you have pumpkin pie spice, butter, kosher salt, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes around 45 minutes. It is a good option if you're following a gluten free and lacto ovo vegetarian diet. It is brought to you by Foodie Misadventures. With a spoonacular score of 5%, this dish is improvable. If you like this recipe, you might also like recipes such as Pumpkin Buttercream Filled Macarons with Pumpkin Spice Dark Chocolate Ganache, Holiday Cookie #3: Pumpkin Spice Macarons, and Pumpkin Cheesecake French Toast Roll Ups with Pumpkin Spice Dipping Sauce #SundaySupper.

Servings: 40

 

Ingredients:

4 ounces (115g) almond flour or blanched almonds

¼ cup butter

5 ounces egg whites (144g), temperature and age not important!

½ tsp (2g) kosher salt

8 ounces (230g) powdered sugar

1 tablespoon pumpkin pie spice

3 tablespoons pumpkin puree

Pinch of salt

2½ ounce (72g) sugar

1 tsp vanilla extract

1 tbsp whipping cream

Equipment:

baking paper

food processor

pastry bag

sifter

sieve

bowl

oven

stand mixer

spatula

whisk

baking sheet

frying pan

Cooking instruction summary:

Preheat the oven to 300° and have ready a large (18”) pastry bag, fitted with a plain tip, along with two sheet pans lined with parchment paper or a silpat.Sift together almond flour, powdered sugar and pumpkin pie spice in a medium bowl and set aside. If a significant portion won’t go through your sifter (more than 2 tablespoons) you’ll need to grind them up until they do.*If you are using whole almonds, process the almonds and powdered sugar for about a minute in the bowl of a food processor. Take out the mixture and sift it, reserving whatever bits don’t pass through the sieve. Add these bits back to the food processor and run the machine for another minute. Sift again. You should have about 2 Tbsp of slightly chunkier almond bits, but just add those into the dry mix. Then sift in pumpkin pie spice.In the bowl of a stand mixer, combine the egg whites, sugar and salt and turn the mixer to medium (4 on a Kitchen Aid). Whip for 3 minutes. They will not seem especially foamy at that point. Increase the speed to medium-high (7 on a Kitchen Aid) and whip another 3 minutes, then crank the speed to 8 for go another 3 minutes.Turn the mixer off and add in vanilla extract and whip for a final minute on the highest speed. At the end of this minute, you should have a very stiff, dry meringue.When you remove the whisk attachment, there will be a big clump of meringue in the center, just knock the whisk against the bowl to free it. If the meringue has not become stiff enough to clump inside the whisk, continue beating for another minute, or until it does so.Now dump in the dry ingredients all at once and fold them in with a rubber spatula. Use both a folding motion (to incorporate the dry ingredients) and a rubbing/smearing motion, to deflate the meringue against the side of the bowl. This should take about 30-45 turns/folds and should be lava like in texture – this enough to mound up on itself, but fluid enough to melt back down.Transfer about half the batter to a piping bag. Pipe the batter into circles on the baking sheet. Keep in mind batter will continue to spread just a bit. Refill the piping bag after piping out half of macarons.After piping your macarons, take hold of the sheet pan and hit it hard against your counter three times, rotating 90 degrees after each tap.Bake for 18 minutes, or until you can cleanly peel the parchment paper away from a macaron. Let cool on the pans before peeling the macarons from the parchment.In a standing mixer fitted with the paddle, beat the butter and pumpkin at medium-high speed until smooth, about 20 seconds. Beat in extract, pumpkin pie spice and salt until well combined about 15 seconds.Add powdered sugar; beat at medium-low speed until most of the sugar is moistened, about 1 minute. Scrape down the bowl and add heavy cream. Beat at medium speed until incorporated, about 20 seconds, then increase speed to medium-high until light and fluffy, about 4 minutes, scraping down bowl once or twice.Match up macarons in pairs based on size and shape. Fill a pastry bag fitted with the buttercream and pipe a quarter sized mound of buttercream into half of the shells, then sandwich them with the other half.Macarons are best a day or so after making. They can be stored in the refrigerator for up to one week.

 

Step by step:


1. Preheat the oven to 300° and have ready a large (18”) pastry bag, fitted with a plain tip, along with two sheet pans lined with parchment paper or a silpat.Sift together almond flour, powdered sugar and pumpkin pie spice in a medium bowl and set aside. If a significant portion won’t go through your sifter (more than 2 tablespoons) you’ll need to grind them up until they do.*If you are using whole almonds, process the almonds and powdered sugar for about a minute in the bowl of a food processor. Take out the mixture and sift it, reserving whatever bits don’t pass through the sieve.

2. Add these bits back to the food processor and run the machine for another minute. Sift again. You should have about 2 Tbsp of slightly chunkier almond bits, but just add those into the dry mix. Then sift in pumpkin pie spice.In the bowl of a stand mixer, combine the egg whites, sugar and salt and turn the mixer to medium (4 on a Kitchen Aid). Whip for 3 minutes. They will not seem especially foamy at that point. Increase the speed to medium-high (7 on a Kitchen Aid) and whip another 3 minutes, then crank the speed to 8 for go another 3 minutes.Turn the mixer off and add in vanilla extract and whip for a final minute on the highest speed. At the end of this minute, you should have a very stiff, dry meringue.When you remove the whisk attachment, there will be a big clump of meringue in the center, just knock the whisk against the bowl to free it. If the meringue has not become stiff enough to clump inside the whisk, continue beating for another minute, or until it does so.Now dump in the dry ingredients all at once and fold them in with a rubber spatula. Use both a folding motion (to incorporate the dry ingredients) and a rubbing/smearing motion, to deflate the meringue against the side of the bowl. This should take about 30-45 turns/folds and should be lava like in texture – this enough to mound up on itself, but fluid enough to melt back down.

3. Transfer about half the batter to a piping bag. Pipe the batter into circles on the baking sheet. Keep in mind batter will continue to spread just a bit. Refill the piping bag after piping out half of macarons.After piping your macarons, take hold of the sheet pan and hit it hard against your counter three times, rotating 90 degrees after each tap.

4. Bake for 18 minutes, or until you can cleanly peel the parchment paper away from a macaron.

5. Let cool on the pans before peeling the macarons from the parchment.In a standing mixer fitted with the paddle, beat the butter and pumpkin at medium-high speed until smooth, about 20 seconds. Beat in extract, pumpkin pie spice and salt until well combined about 15 seconds.

6. Add powdered sugar; beat at medium-low speed until most of the sugar is moistened, about 1 minute. Scrape down the bowl and add heavy cream. Beat at medium speed until incorporated, about 20 seconds, then increase speed to medium-high until light and fluffy, about 4 minutes, scraping down bowl once or twice.Match up macarons in pairs based on size and shape. Fill a pastry bag fitted with the buttercream and pipe a quarter sized mound of buttercream into half of the shells, then sandwich them with the other half.Macarons are best a day or so after making. They can be stored in the refrigerator for up to one week.


Nutrition Information:

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60k Calories
1g Protein
2g Total Fat
8g Carbs
0% Health Score
Limit These
Calories
60k
3%

Fat
2g
4%

  Saturated Fat
0.94g
6%

Carbohydrates
8g
3%

  Sugar
7g
8%

Cholesterol
3mg
1%

Sodium
37mg
2%

Get Enough Of These
Protein
1g
2%

Vitamin E
0.73mg
5%

Vitamin A
216IU
4%

Manganese
0.08mg
4%

Vitamin B2
0.04mg
2%

Magnesium
8mg
2%

Copper
0.03mg
2%

Phosphorus
15mg
2%

Fiber
0.34g
1%

Selenium
0.89µg
1%

covered percent of daily need
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