Nutella Macarons (with video)
Hello everyone! Welcome to my blog Pies and Tacos! And today we are making Nutella Macarons! Hooray!
Also, find the video on this page, or on my Youtube Channel, showing you how to make these macarons!
I basically made a chocolate macaron shell, and filled with the most delicious Nutella Buttercream. Sounds simple enough, eh?
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Then I drizzled the shells with some melted chocolate, and sprinkled some chopped hazelnuts on top to decorate!
If you watch my video, I will show in detail how to make these Nutella Macarons.
I made these Nutella Macarons using my hand mixer, to show that you don’t necessarily need a KitchenAid to make macarons.
It does take longer to whip the meringue in my hand mixer than it does in my KitchenAid. However, it is still possible to make macarons without a stand mixer!
Anyway, if you go to my Youtube Channel, you’ll find many videos on how to make macarons, showing you the step-by-step.
Making macarons is all a matter of practice, and getting to know what each stage of the process is supposed to look like.
It’s not a gift, it’s not magic, it’s simply passion put to good use!
These Nutella Macarons are actually part of a big cookie box I made.
Many other cookies went in that cookie box, between them: these Alfajor Cookies, Eggnog Macarons, Cranberry Macarons, Chocolate Chip Cookies, Coconut Fudge Truffles, Passion Fruit Cookies, Orange Pistachio Shortbread.
The reason why I was able to make this cookie box happen, is because I could make lots of cookies in advance, including these Nutella Macarons.
They freeze beautifully! So they are perfect for your own Christmas Cookie Box.
Freezing Macarons is very easy. You can either freeze just the shells, and fill them later (I’ve got some baked and frozen shells in my freezer right now). Or you can freeze the assembled macaron.
I am not usually a fan of freezing macarons with jelly or curd fillings, because they might get soggy depending on how wet the filling is.
But macarons filled with cream fillings will freeze beautifully!
These are the containers I use to freeze my macarons.
I have been using them for years, they are awesome!
Being able to freeze our macarons should make things a lot easier, because you can make them way ahead of time, and that always helps, specially during busy holiday season!
And this is the tip I am using to pipe the filling on the macarons.
I have over 50 macaron recipes and ideas on my blog!
Here are some more ideas of macarons you might like:
- Chocolate Macarons (most popular recipe on the blog!)
- German Chocolate Macarons
- Brownie Macarons
- M&M’s Macarons
- Toffee Macarons
- Brigadeiro Macarons
- Coffee Macarons
- Samoa Cookie Macarons
- Dulce de Leche Macarons
- Espresso Chocolate Peanut Butter Macarons
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Nutella Macarons
Ingredients
Chocolate Macaron Shells
- 100 grams egg whites
- 100 grams white sugar
- 105 grams almond flour
- 75 grams powdered sugar
- 14 grams cocoa powder
Nutella Buttercream
- 4 tbsp unsalted butter 2 oz, 56 grams
- 1/3 cup nutella
- 2 cups powdered sugar 9 oz, 255 grams
- 1/8 tsp salt
- 2-4 tbsp milk more, or less, as needed
Topping
- 1/4 cup chocolate chips
- 1/4 cup chopped hazelnuts
Instructions
Macaron Shells
- Before you start, get all of your ingredients ready. Prepare a large piping bag, fitted with a large round tip. Set aside.
- Line two baking sheets with parchment paper or silicon mat.
- I use a baking mat with the macaron template already in it. You can make your own or print it from the internet, and just place it under silicon mat, or parchment paper. I recommend using a silicon mat
- Measure out all of your ingredients.
- Sift powdered sugar, almond flour, and cocoa powder together. Set aside.
- Place egg whites and granulated sugar in a heat proof bowl or in a double boiler. Over a pan of simmering water, whisk the whites and sugar until frothy and sugar completely melted. It will take a couple minutes. You can test by touching the mixture between your fingers, and if you feel any sugar granules just keep whisking mixture over the water bath.
- Make sure the bottom of the bowl isn’t touching the simmering water.
- Transfer 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. Whisk on medium for one to two minutes, until mixture is white and starting to become fluffy. Raise speed to high for a few minutes until stiff peaks are formed. Best way to check this is to keep your eye on the whites. Once they get glossy and you start seeing streaks formed by the whisk, it might be time to stop.
- Whisk until stiff peaks have formed. When you pull your whip up, the peak should form a bird’s beak shape, but shouldn’t be falling to the side, the peak should be stiff, forming a slightly curved shape at the top.
- Pour powdered sugar and almond flour into stiff whites.
- Start folding gently forming a letter J with a spatula.
- Add the food coloring at this point, if using. You can add a bit of brown food coloring to enhance the color of the shells if you want to.
- It’s time to stop folding when the batter is glossy and has a thick and flowing consistency. There are several ways to test this.
- First, I pick up some batter with my spatula and try to draw a figure 8 with the batter that is dripping off the spatula. If you can form several 8 figures without the batter breaking up, that’s one indication that it might be ready.
- There’s another test you can do. I call it the Teaspoon test.
- Grab a teaspoon of batter and spoon onto the parchment paper or silicon mat. Wait a minute to see how it behaves.
- If the batter stays stiff, forming a point and doesn’t spread out a bit, I start folding a little bit more, about 3 folds.
- Test again.
- Once the batter spreads out a bit and starts to look glossy and smooth on top, on the parchment paper, I transfer my mixture to the piping bag.
- You don’t want your batter to be too runny either. So be careful not to over mix. It’s always best to under mix and test several times until the proper consistency has been achieved.
- The best way I can describe this stage being perfect is when you hold the spatula with batter on top of the bowl and the batter falls off the spatula slowly but effortlessly. The batter will keep flowing off the spatula non-stop, but not too quickly.
- Transfer batter to a piping bag fitted with a round tip.
- Place piping bag directly 90 degrees over the center of each macaron template. Apply equal pressure and carefully pipe for about 3 seconds, and then quickly pull the bag up twisting slightly.
- Once you’ve piped as many circles as you could, bang the trays against the counter a few times each.
- Use a toothpick to gently poke any bubbles of air that may have formed on the surface of the macaron shells.
- Let your trays sit for a while so the shells will dry out a little bit. I usually leave about 20-40 minutes, depending on how humid the day is. You’ll know they’re ready when you gently touch the surface of a macaron and it seems dry.
- Pre-heat the oven to 300°F.
- Bake one tray at a time.
- Bake for 5 minutes, rotate tray.
- I bake each tray for a total of 18-20 minutes.
- When baked, the macarons will have a deeper color and formed feet. And they will be coming off the mat easily, and with a completely formed bottom.
- Remove from the oven and bake the other tray.
- Let the macarons cool down before proceeding with the filling.
Nutella Buttercream
- Place butter in the bowl of an electric mixer.
- Cream the butter for 1 minute.
- Add Nutella and mix to combine.
- Add sifted powdered sugar and salt.
- Mix on low until powdered sugar is incorporated.
- Raise speed to medium high and cream for another minute.
- Add milk, as necessary. If the buttercream has the perfect consistency, skip on adding the milk. If the buttercream seems dry, add milk. If the buttercream is too runny after adding the milk, add more sifted powdered sugar.
To assemble
- Place Nutella Buttercream in a piping bag fitted with the tip of choice.
- Pipe some filling in half of the macarons. Top with another shell.
- Melt the chocolate, place it on a piping bag and drizzle over shells, and then sprinkle chopped hazelnuts on top.
Storage
- These Nutella Macarons will store well in the fridge for up to 1 week.
- They can also be frozen for up to 2 months in an air tight container.
Notes
. If you are a beginner macaron baker, I recommend going easy on the food coloring, as it can alter your batter a lot, and it can take extra mixing time, specially if you continue to add the food coloring as you do the macaronage.
Scale: Please use a scale when measuring the ingredients for accuracy.
Macaron amount: it will vary greatly depending on how big you pipe the shells, and on how runny or thick the batter is.
Baking time/temperature: Baking time and temperature will vary according to your own oven. I recommend experimenting with your oven to find out the best time, temperature, position of the baking tray.
Oven thermometer: Make sure to have an oven thermometer to bake macarons. It’s one of the most important things about making macarons. Home ovens aren’t accurate at all at telling the temperature, and even a slight 5 degree difference can make or break your whole batch.
Tray rotation: Lots of bakers don’t have to rotate the trays 180 degrees in the oven every 5 minutes, but I do have to with my oven, or I will get lopsided macarons. Please adjust this according to your oven.
Storage: This
is the Storage Container I use to store my macarons.
The video shows 96 grams almond flour added but recipe says 105 grams. Please clarify which weight is accurate. Thanks.
I started using 105 grams of almond flour after I made the video. That’s when I changed my recipe to use 105 grams of flour instead of 96, which was the measurements I first started with. For a dry climate, you will be fine with 96 grams of almond flour, if your climate is a bit more humid, add the extra 105 grams of almond flour. The extra flour will help your shells dry faster.
Love how you explain everything ❤️.. I was wondering, how many macarons do you make in on batch?? 25? One more question: If I want to make them as a gift.. like 5 different colors all total 25..should I macronage them then separate in 5 and ad color??
I am able to get between 20 and 25 cookie sandwiches.
And as far as the colors, you will have to mix the dry ingredients with the meringue until just incorporated, then separate in different bowls and color each, however, since these have cocoa powder in them that will affect the color. For instructions on how to make the different colors, I have quite a few posts and videos showing the process such as this: https://www.piesandtacos.comgalaxy-macarons/
Hi, earlier my macarons used to turn out quite nice but since the last few times O have been very disappointed. Today, I saw the feet had developed well, but midway I put a tray above my macaron tray in order to prevent browning from the top. I noticed the feet flattened up after that. Do you think it is possible or am I imagining things?
if you have pics of them send to my email (camila at pies and tacos . com) or dm on instagram. I always cover my macarons midway through baking and it doesnt happen, so I am thinking maybe something else was going on.
Best recipe ever! They were perfect and tasty, thank you very much 🙂
thank you so much!!! 🙂
Your recipes and all the tips you give are amazing. Can you please guide me with my query – I have a small home oven, in which I can bake 10 macarons at a time. If I need to make a large batch, can I pipe out all the trays at the same time and bake them one by one? Or will the later trays dry up too much?
Thanks
I would pipe in installments. It’s ok for the batter to sit in the bag for a while, obviously not hours upon hours, but up to an hour I dont see an issue, and I have experimented with that myself and it worked for me. Make sure to cover the tip of the bag and the top so no air is in contact with the batter.
Thanks so much for responding
BEST MACARON RECIPE EVER!!! It’s my first time making macarons and I aced it!!!
Thank you so much and congrats!! that’s so wonderful to hear!!!
Can you use egg whites from the carton or should you separate from the egg instead?
Some people do use carton egg whites. However, not all brands work, not all batches work, sometimes two different cartons from the same brand might whip differently. And it takes longer to achieve the peaks.
Thank you. Also if the batter remains stiff after folding it and doesn’t seem to get smoother does that mean the egg whites were over beat? Is there anything that can be done at that point to make smoother?
could mean you over heated the egg white/sugar mixture.
could mean the meringue is over whipped.
how long are you talking here? sometimes it takes me a while to get to the right consistency.
And if the case is that you’ve stirred for like 10 minutes and it’s still not thinning out, I’d add a tiny amount of egg whites trying to make it thinner, like 1/2 tsp.
Hi Camila. Do you use convection oven or conventional oven to bake? I followed your recipes and baking instructions but baked in the conventional oven. The macaron form looks great but it was a bit crispy rather than chewy. Not sure if my oven temp is roo hugh. Greatly appreciate your help.
I use conventional electric oven. I recommend you reducing the temperature by 10% 🙂
I tried to do this recipe 2x now and failed both times. They cracked and there are no feet.
I’ve made other macarons using your recipes and they turn out perfect…can’t seem to figure out what happened. I’ve let them sit for hours. Baked at lower temp. Now I just noticed your video has less almond meal than the written recipe. Would that be the issue?
it could be the type of cocoa powder you are using. Try a fresh bag of cocoa powder, also go for a brand with low fat content such as hersheys. And try adding a bit less, add 5 to 10 grams instead of 14, and make up the amount you substitute with powdered sugar instead.
Hey Camila, if I was to use black cocoa powder instead would I have to change to method or measurements? I’m trying to get black macs and heard that was the best option?
Hi Camilla!
These look amazing and beautiful. I’m going to try them today. I’d like to make a giant one as a cake for my daughter’s birthday and decorate with the little ones. Thoughts on modifying the recipe for this?
Thank you,
Lisa
hello! I have never made a giant macaron before, so I am not sure I have any tips!
I’d say to keep everything the same, just pipe a large macaron because that’s what I see my friends do in the macaron facebook group.
Hope everything goes awesome!!! Happy birthday to your daughter!
Hi can i make macarons in microwave ? I do not have an oven.
Thanks.
it won’t work in the microwave.
Will I be able to use the French method with this recipe? If so, how much cream of tartar should I use?
Love all your recipes! Thank you.
some people do use it with french method, I have never tried it. but I hear people are successful at it. I recommend 1/4 tsp cream of tartar
Wonderful Recipie…Mine turned out good at my first attempt….I will definitely try your next recipies!
Much ❤️
that’s wonderful to hear!! Thank you!
I made these macarons and they turned out SO good and even looked pretty!! Very impressed with the detail in the recipe to help make the perfect macaron! Will definitely be using your recipes again!! 😍😍
Thank you so much Rachel! thats wonderful to hear!!! 🙂
Hello! I made this recipe they turned out super yummy!!!!💕
Thank you so much! so glad to hear! 🙂