Chocolate Bacon Macarons



For this month's MacTweet Mac Attack challenge, they asked for a savory sweet macaron. I had been intrigued by the combination of bacon and chocolate for a while, and was originally going for a cupcake. But I took this as an opportunity to try it in a macaron... I've never been a huge fan of bacon (I prefer sausage with my breakfast) but I do like a salty sweet combo.



I made these twice. The first time, I put a little piece of bacon in the filling, and you could barely taste it. My mother couldn't guess the flavor, she guessed it was orange peel or Grand Marnier!
So the second time, I took the advice of an excellent fellow baker, and put pepper on the bacon first, and also put little bits of it in the shells before baking. This time the flavor came through! It was very interesting. The chocolate is far more pronounced, but you could really taste the pepper right at the end, leaving a hot kick in your mouth.



I was actually afraid to taste these after they were ready... but I'm glad I did. I don't know how many of these I could eat, but they really weren't as bad or crazy as I was expecting! If you're interested in new and exciting flavors, this would be one of them.

Chocolate Bacon Macarons
Makes about 18 macarons

1 cup powdered sugar
1/2 cup ground almonds/almond meal
5 tbs granulated sugar
3 tbs cocoa powder
2 egg whites, left at room temp overnight

Beat the egg whites with the 5 tbs of sugar until they're glossy and don't budge (hold it over your head and they shouldn't move). Then fold in the rest of the ingredients until just incorporated. Pour into a piping bag with a round tip and pipe them out on parchment paper or a silpat mat.

Fry some bacon and sprinkle some ground black pepper on it. Put little bits of the bacon on the shells before baking.

Bake at 280 degrees for 15 minutes. Let cool before attempting to remove them from the sheets.

Filling:
I took the easy route and used my dark chocolate spread that I had on hand. Then I put small pieces of bacon in the middle of each filling and pressed the shells together.

Enjoy!

Comments

  1. Fantastic! I recently had a bacon-chocolate bar and love the flavor combo and think that making it into a mac is fabulous! Perfect savory-sweet mac and really gorgeous macs, too! Yay and so glad you brought these to the Mactweets kitchen!

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  2. Ooh, that's cool that they turned out well. :) I hope you try chocolate/bacon cupcakes still though! I think those have the potential to be fantastic.

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  3. i'm obsessed with the chocolate/bacon combo and this is BRILLIANT.

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  4. Thanks guys, Aba, I will make you a maple bacon cupcake when I see you next and we can both try it together :)

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  5. Ive been racking my brains abt the flavor combos...gr8 job amrita...love yr macs!

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  6. Chocolate bacon macs - what a great idea. Yours turned out so beautiful!

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  7. Wow, what an interesting sweet and savory macaron combo! Doesn't bacon make a lot of things better? :-) And chocolate is already awesome!

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  8. I love chocolate and bacon..they turned out beautifully

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  9. Superb blog post, I have book marked this internet site so ideally I’ll see much more on this subject in the foreseeable future!

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  10. Fabulously done, and what a great combination. I'm sorry I'm so late here, but am thrilled to have you join the Mac Attack Amrita! Your macs are beautiful!

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  11. MMMM chocolate and bacon two of my favourite foods!

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