Chocolate & pine nut macaroons
Chocolate & pine nut macaroons
Surprise! Just when you thought the great chocolate day had been forgotten again, here it is to save the week:Chocolate & pine nut macaroons! Drenched with sweet, rich, chocolate and pine nut goodness. The sweet smell of chocolate that wafts from the oven while you’re baking this is SO irresistible! You just want to bottle it up and be able to smell it whenever you’re feeling a tad blue. The texture of these macaroons is also quite puzzling. On the one hand they are crunchy (due to the pine nuts) and yet they are sort of moist as well. Aah! The mysteries of life!
Chocolate & pine nut macaroons
Ingredients: 1/3 cup pine nuts, ¼ cup caster sugar, 2 ½ tbsp cocoa powder sifted, 1 egg lightly whisked, 1 tbsp icing sugar, extra pine nuts for decorating
Steps: Preheat oven to 160 degrees Celsius. Line 2 baking trays with non-stick baking paper. Place the pine nuts in a food processor and process until roughly chopped. Transfer to a small bowl. Stir in the caster sugar and 2 tbsp of cocoa powder. Add the egg white and mix well.
Drop teaspoonsful of mixture onto the line trays leaving about 2cm between each. Combine the icing sugar and ½ tbsp cocoa powder and sift over the macaroons. Top each macaroon with a pine nut in the centre.
Bake in preheated oven for 25 minutes or until the macaroons spread and look cracked and dry. Allow to cool on trays
Makes about 12
