VIDEO: Southern-style pecan macaroons for Passover
This is so much tastier than the canned macaroons sold in supermarkets!
This is so much tastier than the canned macaroons sold in supermarkets!
I grew up with no macaroons. My mother was raised on almond macaroons that her grandmother made, but the experience was hard to replicate by the time I came around. “Every time I saw an almond macaroon, I bought it, but in bakeries you mostly only see coconut,” she told me. “It’s a travesty.” This…
Since 2008, couple Elka Gould and Ami Kaplan, director and producer, have been filming the Badner family coping with the slow decline of their macaroon factory in Williamsburg. A forty-minute film was whittled out of fifty hours of footage, and The Macaroon King documentary was born. The film is an unexpected time capsule into the…
You meticulously prepped your Seder plate, made oodles of matzo ball soup, cooked enough brisket to feed an army, and are stocked up for the next 18 years on wine, matzo and macaroons. Now what do you do with all of that food once the holiday guests have left? You could throw the leftover parsely…
Passover, the weeklong holiday that celebrates the Israelites’ freedom from slavery in Egypt was simpler back in the day. There was just one recipe for charoset, the mixture that symbolized the mortar the Israelites used to make bricks for the pyramids. That recipe had apples and walnuts — not dates, pistachios and ginger. There was…
How’s this for an only-in-New-York story: Russian Jew meets Israeli-born Frenchman on a trip to New York. She leaves Moscow to join him in Manhattan. They start an artisan macaron business. And Macy’s Herald Square courts them to open a shop. It’s not a movie script. It’s Polina Andris’s life, and Made by Pauline is…
Danny Cohen doesn’t care much for sweets, but you would never guess it after tasting his big, chewy macaroons. The visual-artist-turned-macaroon-master started Danny Macaroons in 2010 and currently vends a variety of wacky flavors like bourbon and guava through coffee shops and flea markets around New York and Chicago. In this slideshow, Danny demonstrates how…
Sarah Bernhardts (About 24 cookies) These elegant macaroons were named after the French actress. Macaroons: 8 ounces (3/4 cup plus 2 tablespoons) almond paste 1 cup sugar 1/8 teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon almond extract 1/3 cup (about 3) egg whites, lightly beaten 36 whole almonds (optional) Ganache: 1 1/2 cups heavy cream 12 ounces bittersweet…
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