These Thai tea macarons are filled with Thai tea white chocolate ganache Using homemade thai tea extract! You have to give it a try!

Orange Mini Heart Macarons Shells

Adopted from Pies & Tacos Blog – Swiss method.

Note: You do not have to get exactly 95g of egg whites. You can calculate the ratio as 1:05. For example: if you only get 100g of egg whites out of 3 eggs, multiple it by 1.05 to get to 105g on dry ingredients (almond flour and powdered sugar). Remember to use a scale to weight all the ingredients.

Yield about 40-44 shells

• 95g egg whites (usually from 3 fresh eggs)
• 95g granulated white sugar
• 100g almond flour
• 100g powdered sugar
• 3g egg white powder (optional) from Judee’s from Scratch
• 2 drops pumpkin food coloring and white/fog food coloring

Steps

1. Before you start, wipe all the tools and bowls with white vinegar or lemon juice to make sure there is no oil on them and get all of the ingredients ready. Prepare a large piping bag, fitted with a large round tip. I use piping tip round 12. 1A can be used to. It depends on what your preference. Set aside.
2. Line two baking sheets with silicone mat or parchment paper. If you are using a template, you can put them underneath the mat or parchment paper now.
3. Measure out all of the ingredients using a scale.
4. In one large bowl, sift the powdered sugar and almond flour together. Whisk them until combine. Set it aside.
5. In another bowl, whisk the granulated sugar and the egg white powder (if using). Using a double boiler method, place the bowl over a pot with water. Make sure the bottom of the bowl does not touch the water. Add the egg whites to the sugar and whisk the mixture until frothy. Use your finger to touch the mixture and you should not be feeling any sugar in it, which means the sugar is completely melted and ready for next step.
6. Transfer the sugar mixture to the bowl of a stand mixer. With the whisk attachment, start whisking mixture on low for about 30 seconds, then gradually start increasing speed to medium-low (KitchenAid speed 4). Whisk on medium for one to two minutes, until the mixture is white and starting to become fluffy. Raise the speed medium-high (KitchenAid speed 6) and whisk for a few minutes (could be up to 10 to 12 minutes) until stiff peaks are formed. Once they get glossy and you start seeing streaks formed by the whisk, it might be time to stop.
7. Stiff peak is the meringue shooting straight up. Then it is ready.
8. Pour the sifted powdered sugar and almond flour into the stiff meringue.
9. Use a spatula and start folding gently. Until the dry ingredients and meringue is combined.
10. Split the batter into 3/4 and 1/4 portion into two bowls. 3/4 bowl will be your orange batter. 1/4 bowl will be your white batter. Add food coloring at this point.
11. Fold each bowl and cover it with plastic wrap when working with other bowl. Continue to fold. What you are trying to do here is to deflate the air in the meringue and also incorporate it with the dry ingredients until it reaches a lava stage. I do not normally reach to figure 8 stage (if you have heard of this), because at this point, I feel like the batter is already overmixed and too runny. If the batter is flowing down from the spatula effortlessly and slowly, then it should be ready for the next step. If the batter is breaking up from the spatula, it means it is undermixed and you need to keep folding.
12. When ready, transfer the batter to the piping bag (s). I use tip 12 for orange batter and a smaller round tip 5 for white batter.
13. Orange batter: place the piping bag directly 90 degrees over the center of each macaron template.
14. When piping is done, I would recommend tapping the bottom of the tray instead of banging the tray against the counter. Banging the tray against the counter is too loud and it really is scaring my kids. It still works but I no longer do the banging. This step is to get rid of air bubbles in the batter.
15. Use a toothpick to pop any air bubbles in the surface of the shells.
16. White batter: using wet on wet technique to add three dots of white batter and use a toothpick to scribe the middle of all three dots to create a bit of the heart shaped pattern.
17. Pre-heat the oven to 310 degrees. You would need oven thermometer to know how hot your oven is. This is very important when baking macarons. What I have found out is the display of the oven is not accurate and it could be few degrees off, either hotter or under. Therefore, you would need to adjust the temperature and/or baking time. My oven is without a fan.
18. If you are using a template, do not forget to remove it, which you can take it out in this step.
19. You could only bake one tray at a time and put the tray in the middle rack. I rotate the tray half way and I use airbake tray. The advantage of using airbake tray is if there is hot spot in your oven, the macaron shells are baked evenly and the airbake tray also can keep them from burning.
20. Bake for 15-18 minutes if using regular baking sheets. Bake for 16-19 minutes on airbake tray. I rotate the tray half way through the baking time and cover them up with foil to prevent browning.
21. To make sure the macarons are done baking, when you try to move a macaron, it should not feel jiggly. If the macaron is still jiggly, bake for additional 2 minutes and test again. When done, remove from the oven and bake the second tray.
22. Move them to cooling rack. Let the macarons cool down completely before peeling off from the mat or parchment paper.

Homemade Thai Tea Extract

• 4 Thai tea bags (I got them in World Market. They have tea bags)
• 1 cup vodka

Steps

1. Put tea bags and add its content to a clean jar.
2. Add vodka.
3. Close the lid, letting it sit for 3 weeks in a cool place, away from sunlight. Give it a shake every other day.
4. I end up checking mine in about a month and this extract is still very light. I continue to let the tea bag sitting in there and will check again in another month and see how it turns out!
5. There are endless possibilities to make different kinds of extract! I also made with earl grey and oolong!

Thai Tea White Chocolate Ganache

• 170g white chocolate
• 70ml heavy cream
• 2-3 teaspoons homemade Thai tea extract

Steps

1. In a small saucepan, heat the heavy cream until it comes to almost boil.
2. Remove from the heat and pour over the white chocolate.
3. Let it sit for 1-2 minutes.
4. Stir the white chocolate and heavy cream together until the chocolate has melted entirely.
5. Add in Thai tea extract
6. Put a plastic wrap on top of the ganache to prevent skin to be developed.
7. Chill in the fridge for at least 6 hours or overnight
8. When ready to use, take it out from the fridge and leave on the countertop for 15-20 minutes to soften and get to the consistency to be pipeable.

Assemble

1. Pipe the ganache on the macaron shell.
2. Top with another macaron shell.
3. Chill the macarons in the refrigerator 24-48 hours for the macarons to mature. When ready, leave the macarons out for 15-20 minutes before serving.

Note

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