mardi 1 mai 2007

fraise tagada macarons

Macarons again! Not as delicious as pistaccios macarons, but better-looking. I don't know if you can find "fraise tagada" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraise_Tagada) in many other countries, but I hope so! If you really don't fing fraise tagad and you really want to try this recipe, try to find a kind of marshmallow candy with colored sugar around it...

ingredients:
-3 egg whites
-225g icing sugar
-125g almond flour
-30g caster sugar
-re food-coloring
-150g fraises tagada ("strawberry tagada")
-30g white choclate (no idea why, but it's what the recipe says...)
-10cL whipped cream

recette:
The recipe is exactly the same as the one for the pink macarons (http://shrimpinthekitchen.blogspot.com/2007/03/pink-macarons.htmln.blogspot.com/2007/03/pink-macarons.html), except:
-some more red coloring
-in order to customize not-yet-baked macarons, why not some fraise tagada's sugar (often in the bottom of the packet)?
-for the filling: let the whipped crem boil, then add fraises tagada and chocolate while mixing. The original recipe didn't say it, but I also added the rest of almond flour that was too big to sieved (not too much of course). The ideal situation is too stick couples of macarons together with the filling not too long after it is finished, otherwise if you wait too long it will turn into a real glue. If it does, don't worry, just warm it upand it becomes soft again.

#BON APPETIT#ENJOY YOUR MEAL# (and I promise, no more macarons before some time!)

apple-bars

As everybody knows, when you do sport, you need energy, and these apple-bars are energetic and ways healthier than chocolate-bars. I had this recipe from http://unspeculoos.blogspot.com/2007/02/jai-une-gastro.html , but I changed some things, like the fact that I didn't use pineapple or violette syrp.

ingredients:
-150g oatmeal
-100g flour
-80g bown sugar
-150g soft buter, cut in pieces
-4 little apples or 4 bigs
-2 eggs
-70g caster sugar
-several teaspoons cinnamon

recipe:
#Preheat your oven th6 (quite hot). In a salad bowl mix together the flour, oatmeal, brown sugar and butter (with bare hands or with some ustensile). Crumble this dough to get a sandy mix, like the top of a crumble. Overall, resist to the tentation of eating evrything now!
#Cram it with the bottom of a glass into a square tin if possible (it will give better bars), or any other shape is also good, it will just make strange bars. And if your tin is anti-stick, it's even better (like flexipan). Let it bake 15 minutes.
#Cut apples in quarters, peel them and take the seeds out of them. Then cut them in little squares (or blend them coarsely). Add the eggs, the caster sugar and the cinnamon.
#Pour teh apple mix on the pre-baked crumble bottom and let it bake 20 minutes. Let it cool before cutting it in bars or squares. You can eat them directly as a dessert or a snack or take them with you during a hiking.

#BON APPETIT#ENJOY YOUR MEAL#