There’s a lot going on in these images. – Both the tops and bottoms are brown, you should try turning the oven temp down and bake for a longer time. Make sure to use an oven thermometer. – Your pan is rimmed, do you have a rimless pan or next time just flip the pan over and bake on the bottom of pan so that there aren’t any rims as the macarons bake. – The tops looks super fragile and not sturdy, I think you might’ve overmixed but hard to say for sure if that’s the only issue.
Khristafer
They’re a little overmixed. You can lower the oven a bit, but you may get similar results with arranging your oven racks differently. Oven stuff is the most difficult to get right. For example, I have to shield my macs from the top heating element and have my rack in the middle. I also have to preheat to 350 and lower temp when I put them in the oven.
Over all, these really pretty good! Very much edible, lol.
renomac
“are they still edible?”
Hell yes. That’s the best thing about macarons (well, unless you accidentally did salt and not sugar). My imperfect batches? I dip them in my morning coffee, or I feed them to my husband … makes him happy as hell.
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https://sugarspunrun.com/French-macaron-recipe/
This is the recipe I used
No, overmixed. Yes. Yes.
Yes, they’re still edible.
There’s a lot going on in these images.
– Both the tops and bottoms are brown, you should try turning the oven temp down and bake for a longer time. Make sure to use an oven thermometer.
– Your pan is rimmed, do you have a rimless pan or next time just flip the pan over and bake on the bottom of pan so that there aren’t any rims as the macarons bake.
– The tops looks super fragile and not sturdy, I think you might’ve overmixed but hard to say for sure if that’s the only issue.
They’re a little overmixed. You can lower the oven a bit, but you may get similar results with arranging your oven racks differently. Oven stuff is the most difficult to get right. For example, I have to shield my macs from the top heating element and have my rack in the middle. I also have to preheat to 350 and lower temp when I put them in the oven.
Over all, these really pretty good! Very much edible, lol.
“are they still edible?”
Hell yes. That’s the best thing about macarons (well, unless you accidentally did salt and not sugar). My imperfect batches? I dip them in my morning coffee, or I feed them to my husband … makes him happy as hell.