Luxemburgeli (macaroons )

Total Time: 2 hrs 20 mins Preparation Time: 20 mins Cook Time: 2 hrs

Ingredients

• 4 egg whites
• 1 cup sugar
• 50 g ground almonds
• 2 teaspoons vanilla sugar
• 1 tablespoon cocoa powder
• for the frosting
• 100 g butter (softened )
• 50 g powdered sugar (sifted)
• 2 egg yolks
• 1 teaspoon vanilla sugar
• 50 g melted chocolate
• 1 lime, juice of and zest
• food coloring, and flavourings of your choice (optional)

Recipe

• 1 in a medium size deep bowl beat the 4 egg slightly, . then gradually add sugar while beating on high speed to a stiff and cream.
• 2 fold in the almonds and the vanilla sugar gently.
• 3 place half of this mixture into another medium sized bowl.
• 4 to the one half , fold in the cocoa powder .
• 5 fill the mixture into a piping bag, and pipe 2 inch rounds onto baking paper lined cookie sheets.
• 6 flatten the twirl on top of the macaroon for the botom of macaroon ,and leave the twirl on for the tops when sandwiching together.
• 7 bake at 75 centigrades for two hours on the top shelf of the oven (no fan oven ) with oven door very slightly open.
• 8 remove when dry, cool and fill with cream frosting.
• 9 frosting.
• 10 beat the softened butter and icing sugar creamy.
• 11 add the egg yolks and vanilla sugar, mixing well.
• 12 halve the frosting and to one half add the melted chocolate, and to the outher half the juice and zest of 1lime mixing well.
• 13 can glaze top of macaroon with egg and powder sugar .
• 14 fill the frosting on each side of the macaroon and sandwich together,then chill to firm up the frosting.
• 15 use your imagination when decorating tops of macaroon.
• 16 color and flavour the cream filling to your fancy eg. raspberry coulis and the juice of, to color the macaroon , strong espresso, caramel topping , almond extract , coconut extract , juice of amarena cheeries , etc. or any food colorings and flavourings you fancy." luxembugers " keep' s two days in refridgerator enjoy!