Gives approx. 2 cups of buttercream and is used in my Mojito macarons. Ingredients: One big handfull of mint leaves 5 eggwhites (170 g) 2 tbsp dark rum 2 tbsp lime juice 3/4 cup – 5 1/4 oz – 17o g of canesugar 2 sticks+1 spsk./250 g unsaltet butter (soft) a pinch cream of tartar Fremgangsmåde: 1. Put mint leaves and canesugar in a bowl that can withstand water bath. 2. Prepare a water bath. 3. Add lime juice to the mint leaves and cane sugar, mash the mixture lightly with a spoon. (Not too much, will result in small pieces of mint leaves in the butter cream) 4. Add the egg whites and rum to mint mixture. 5. Set the bowl over a water bath until the sugar is completely dissolved and mixture bubbles lightly. 6. Strain the mixture through a fine sieve and into a medium bowl. Add the creme of tartar. 7. Beat on medium-high speed until the meringue is shiny and medium-stiff peaks form. 8. Add butter 1-2 tablespoons at a time until all the butter is incorporated. NOTE: If the butter cream splits, heat it gently in the microwave for 10 seconds. Beat it on […]
Homemade pistachio paste
Today’s mission: [orange-skrift]Create recipe for perfect pistachiopaste.[/orange-skrift] I have searched a long time online for a good recipe for the perfect pistachiopaste, and the perfect pistachio buttercream, but without success. I have found recipes that are looking great, but which used artificial flavoring and/or coloring, and I just find it to taste wrong. And in general, I am very serious that my raw materials are in order. So true pistachio or no pistachio. If I have to have cake, it must be good cake. And good ingredients ensure that. Well, then, I went into the kitchen with 400 g pistachios (without the hard shell), 300g butter and 250g icing sugar, and got started. 1.5 hours later I came out with this recipe: Ingredients: 210 g shelled pistachios (without shells, completely green and cleaned) 40 g icing sugar Boil 4 cups water in a small pot and put in the pistachios (without the hard shell). Heat the oven to 170 ° C and place baking paper on a baking sheet. When pistachios have cooked for approx. 2 min, pour them into a strainer and drip off. Peel pistachios, likes it was almonds, and place them on the baking sheet. Dry the nuts in […]