Macaron Mania: The Recipes of the World’s Top Pastry Chefs

When I first wrote a recipe tutorial for French macarons in 2012, I couldn’t have imagined that, even to this day, it would be the most popular post on IronWhisk. Back then, the macaron craze was just gaining steam. Today, the almond-meringue cookies, which sandwich a ganache or jam filling, are ubiquitous.

Macaron Mania: Testing the Recipes of the World's Top Pastry Chefs

The macaron’s popularity means a plethora of surprisingly different recipes are available to play with. What, then, is the best way to make this famous cookie? Over the past few weeks, I have made it my mission to find out. After getting my hands on the formerly secret recipes of the world’s top pastry chefs, and baking dozens of batches and hundreds of macarons, my side-by-side tests and surveys provide the much-needed answers.

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Chocolate and Matcha Entremet

The matcha green tea macarons that I shared last week were delightful by themselves, but I really wanted to incorporate them some way into an entremet cake.

Chocolate and matcha entremet with a chewy dark chocolate brownie layer, vanilla crémeux, chocolate joconde cake, a thin layer of matcha mousse, chocolate mirror glaze, and a matcha macaron. Click for the recipe!

That’s where this chocolate and matcha green tea entremet with a chewy dark chocolate brownie layer, vanilla crémeux, chocolate joconde cake, a thin layer of matcha mousse, glaçage au chocolat, and, of course, a matcha macaron comes in.

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Matcha Green Tea Macarons

Matcha, if you have never heard of it before, is a strikingly coloured green tea powder from Japan. Unlike most teas, which you can prepare by soaking a teabag in water, matcha is meant to be stirred in and dissolved in the water.

Matcha green tea macarons with matcha buttercream. Don't you just want to click for the recipe? Yes you do.

Matcha is a little bit like hot chocolate mix, except much greener and without the taste of hot chocolate.  I guess the only similarity really is that both powders are soluble in water.

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