Hazelnut macaroons

[sqbr]

So I was planning on making these macarons but on rereading the recipe realised that it actually listed two types of sugar, which taken together were more than twice the amount of all the other ingredients put together. This was not the sort of biscuit I had in mind.

Some brief googling got me this recipe for hazelnut macaroons which pretty much reverses the sugar:hazelnut meal ratio, and OMG SO TASTY. Gluten free too, afaict! I didn't add the chocolate, btw, but I can see that being tasty.

I tried sandwiching two together with nutella and..yum. Mmm.

The plan was to bring them to Margaret's tomorrow, but uh..they may not survive :)

We got the hazelnut meal for free from some of Cam's friends who moved over east and were emptying their pantry, I have a nasty feeling that when I see how much it costs I shall not make these again :(

Comments

[callistra.livejournal.com]

It's pretty expensive. I made a hazelnut chocolate meringue torte thing... and yeah, on the high side of life.

[seaya.livejournal.com]

How can you eat Nutella if you can't eat chocolate?

It does have some cocoa in it.

[alias_sqbr]

In terms of my food intolerances, milk fat > cocoa butter > cocoa

So the mix of low fat milk powder, hazelnut butter, and cocoa in nutella has a much smaller effect than the mix of milk fat, cocoa butter, and cocoa in milk chocolate. I still shouldn't eat too much of it, but I am on holiday :)

(Also I might have used dark chocolate on the biscuits if I had any in the house...)