hey everyone it's James from FunFoods and today I'm gonna show you how to make these character macarons
now these macarons are designed after the main character in the YouTube
channel theodd1sout. I recently saw theodd1sout at VidCon London and
that's where I discovered them. not really discovered them but I found them
but I had to check out this channel and I did and they had a really cute character and I wanted
to do something so I made these macarons that look like the character. I
also wanted to make it like an animation a little bit so I did it with the arms in
different positions and I made a stop-motion film using it at the very
end. so you have to watch. don't judge me I am NOT an animator so keep watching
and I'll show you step-by-step how to make these. to make the macarons we're
gonna start off with a large bowl and to that I have three large eggs and these
eggs are at room temperature so make sure that room temperature it's very
important we're gonna crack them in here one by one we're only going to use the
egg whites though but I'm gonna put the whole egg in here now you can just
separate the eggs by cracking in half and moving it back and forth or you can
use an egg separator which I use often but a lot of times the egg yolk does
still break so I'm gonna try it just by using my hand and separating the egg
yolk like so very simple usually doesn't break use the egg yolks for another
recipe that only calls for egg yolks it's the best way not to waste food. now
that we have our bowl with just our egg whites in it we're gonna whisk this up
so make sure you use your whisk attachment we're gonna whisk this up get
some air in there until it gets frothy
so after a couple minutes of whisking you should see it gets nice and frothy
it's no longer clear and translucent so what we're gonna do is add about a
pinch of salt not much 1/4 of a teaspoon of cream of tartar and
I have 1/4 of a cup of sugar but I'm not gonna put the whole thing in here I'm
only gonna put a little bit as we go and as we continue to whisk. and you know
it's done when it can form nice stiff peaks without falling over
and the ultimate test of whether its form stiff peaks or not you can take
this pour it over your head and if it doesn't come out it's good. take this
bowl just set this aside for now we're gonna bring back a smaller bowl now in
this bowl I've already sifted 2 cups of powdered sugar. It's very important to sift it
because it's how you get that smooth top. into that I'm also gonna sift 1 cup of
almond flour also called almond meal we're gonna sift that into this very
important let's sift it in. and when you're left with just these big chunks
you don't want to use those so dump those out or snack on them. now we want to do is just
move this aside and bring back our whipped up egg whites and we're gonna
transfer this into there but I'm gonna sift it again another time just to make
sure so we're gonna slowly put some of this in there
and then we're gonna fold this in so you just want to take a spatula and fold
this in. go ahead and do the rest of this
now you want to make sure you don't over fold it you don't want to overmix it so
the best way to do this is just take some scoop some out form a pattern and
see if it holds that pattern because if it doesn't hold the pattern then you
have to mix it a little more now because we're gonna be making theodd1sout
as a macaron it has two different colors we really need to focus on one is
black and one is red so we're not gonna need a lot of red and we're not gonna
need a whole lot of black but we are going to divide our mixture here into
two more little bowls a very small amount of red and then also a small
amount of black and for the red and the black
now what I've done is I've taken a cookie sheet and I've covered with
parchment paper the reason why is parchment paper you can see through I
have just come out here of theodd1sout and I have it with a little drawing
I kind of changed it a little bit I'm gonna do two cookies with his arms down
then I'm gonna do two with his arms starting to come up like an animation so
I'm gonna do two two of each kind I think there's six different and all
one two three four five six so I'm going to take this cutout put it underneath my
parchment paper somewhere in the corner like so now that I have that in its spot
I want to hope hopefully it won't move we want to cut a small well kind of not
too small the opening of the white the black and the red you want it to be
really small and flying of an opening we're gonna cut it about here and we're
gonna hopefully take this out and not mess up so try not to get the thing to
move underneath we're gonna pipe this out. okay so that's one and you can see
it kind of spreads out a little bit. we're gonna do two eyeballs one with the
black right about here kind of small eyes
all right we're gonna draw the mouth and it almost goes eyeball to eyeball do the
best I can and then the tongue is kind of takes up a lot of this
now I do think I'm gonna draw the outline of its head
what we have to do typically in macaroons you would tap it to get the
air out I am a little nervous that it will mess up our design because then it
will flatten out a little bit but I'm gonna gently tap it and tap the tray now
we want to leave these out for 30 to 60 minutes and it wants to you want to get
it to where it forms that kind of crust over so that when we cook them they'll
rise up and that's what we want so just leave these be for about 30 to 60
minutes and we'll come back to them so after letting these rest for about an
hour you should be able to take your finger and run them across the top and
touch it without it being sticky take this put this in the oven at 300 degrees
Fahrenheit for about 17 to 20 minutes
all right so after about 19 minutes in the oven at 300 degrees they come out
perfect the feet are a little smaller than the rest of the body but that's
okay I think it'll turn out great we just gotta let these cool down
completely and then we can make the filling
so our cookies have just about completely cooled I'm gonna make the
filling and when we do a very simple buttercream filling and to do that I
have a medium bowl here I have two sticks which is one cup of butter that's
been softened at room temperature. now we're just gonna blend this up until
that butter gets nice and creamy. so after your butter is creamed up really
nice I'm gonna start adding some powdered sugar and some people sift it I
don't but you can it'll make it a little more finer but it's good enough. we're
also gonna add about a teaspoon of vanilla extract you can use whatever
kind of flavoring you like I'm just keeping this simple so I've taken our
frosting I put it in a piping bag and I've let these cool completely and we're
gonna try to pull them off and be very careful they are fragile so I suggest
taking the paper and just kind of pulling it off and there we go
now it does have a bit of separation here between the bottom and the top is
that's not perfect but it will be okay we'll make it work now remember we put
these in pairs so these two go together needs to go these two and these two this
one didn't crack a bit so I'm gonna be extra careful with that one this one's
gonna be on the top
and this is its pair and we're gonna put that one at the bottom so just take that
put it upside down this is supposed to match up perfectly but I see what I did
wrong so where I made a mistake was the bottom one the feet are pointing the
wrong way because I did it like this I should have had the bottom ones feet
pointed the other way live and learn we're gonna take our filling now you
don't want to fill all the way to the edges we're gonna squeeze it out now I
make my filling rather thick so it doesn't spread too much and we want to
stay working the edge a little bit and again be careful with your macaron it's
hard because we didn't make feet and legs which I want to be filled but don't
put a lot of filling on the feet legs just a little bit now just take your
other one it's not going to matter perfectly but that's okay push it down
gently and I can feel it almost crumbling on the other side so be extra
careful. now I also made some of these yellow ones because I had some extra so
I'm gonna use that as sunshine
now it's time to taste test I'm gonna bite into one of our little character macarons
here it's almost a shame that I have to eat this because they're so cute
but we're gonna give it a try here we go
it is a little Airy I may have let them sit out a little too long before I put
them in the oven but they still turned out nice thanks everyone for watching I
hope you enjoyed watching me make these character macarons there's a lot of fun
making these it was especially a lot of fun making the stop-motion animation
film some people may not call animation probably not the right word but whatever
there's a lot of fun doing it and I'm not an animator myself I can't draw so
if you enjoy that kind of stuff check out theodd1sout I'll put a link in
the description below and go over say hi tell them James from fun food sent you
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