Pineapple and Avocado Macarons

These melt in your mouth macarons are a combo between two recipes I came across - Pineapple and Avocado Macaroon Filling in “Poh's Kitchen: My cooking adventures” Poh Ling Yeow 2010 Australia and the Chocolate Macarons in https://www.bestrecipes.com.au/recipes/chocolate-macarons-recipe/946qcnd9

The following is what I did. You could add a touch of food colouring to the macaron mix ie yellow or green for an added pineapple effect but I thought I’d be subtle (for a change)

Macarons:

Ingredients: 3 egg whites; 1/4 cup caster sugar; 1 1/4 cups icing sugar; 3/4 cup ground almonds

Method: Preheat the oven to 130°C or 110°C fan-forced, line oven trays with baking paper.

Beat egg whites in a small bowl with an electric mixer until soft peaks form. Add caster sugar, beat for approximately 10 minutes until sugar dissolves.

Transfer the mixture to a larger bowl, fold in sifted icing sugar and sifted ground almonds.

Spoon mixture into piping bag and pipe 4 cm rounds onto baking tray 3 cm apart. Tap trays so macarons spread slightly. Stand for 30 minutes.

Bake for approximately 20 minutes until set to the touch. Dry, but not brown. Cool on trays.

White chocolate, pineapple and avocado ganache filling:

Ingredients: 1/4 cup cream; 150 g white chocolate finely chopped; ¼  small pineapple, finely chopped; ½ ripe avocado, diced; 75g caster sugar; ½ tsp vanilla essence; ¼ tsp ground black pepper

White chocolate ganache: Bring cream to the boil in a small saucepan, remove from heat and add chocolate, stir until smooth. Stand at room temperature until a spreadable consistency.

Pineapple and avocado coulis: Place pineapple, avocado, caster sugar, vanilla essence and black pepper in a saucepan and heat for 5 minutes or until softened. Place in a blender or food processor and blend until smooth. Push through a sieve and discard any pulp. Chill.

When both mixes are at the desired temperature, stir together until well combined. Dollop a generous amount of filling onto the flat side of a macaron, sandwich together with another and press lightly together.

Keep refrigerated.