Prepare Italian meringue: Water + Sugar in a pan. Boil it up to 114°C.
Place first set of egg white in mixer bowl. Get it ready to mix.
Place second set of egg white in another bowl.
Add powdered sugar through sifter into this bowl, to avoid lumps
Add almond flour through sifter (same reason)
Cut Prova vanilla beans in its center. Use small spatula to retrieve vanilla beans.
Pour vanilla beans into bowl
Start stand mixer maximum speed
Italian meringue: Add pieces of Prova vanilla to add taste
Italian meringue: Retrieve the pan and pour into mixing bowl
Keep mixing for few minutes at maximum speed. You should start seeing a thick cloud-likemeringue
Stop the mixer, and do this test: Flip upside down the bowl. If the batter does not fall, you’re good to go.
Pour meringue into the second bowl (the one with egg white, almond flour & powdered sugar).
Start stand mixer at maximum speed for few minutes
Prep your macaron piping bag: Cut at 2 inches, wrap top of piping bag on a container
Pour batter into piping bag
Pipe your batter on the silicone mat. The proper and best way to pipe macarons, top handpresses, bottom hand guides. If less batter in the piping bag, bottom hand can press since thereisn’t much batter left.
Tap your pan sheet a few times to eliminate air bubbles. This step is crucial, to avoid hollowmacarons
Voilà! Shell macaron recipe first part is done. Let your batter rest for few hours.
The texture needs to be « dry » non-sticky to the touch texture.
Bake your macarons at 350F for 14 minutes (temperature / timing is adjustable depending on your oven)
Retrieve pan sheets from the oven
Let it cool down for a couple of hours (trying to remove macaron shells too soon will cause themto crack)