Festive Fare: Hazelnut macaroons, spiced cherries, vanilla cream
( SERVES 12 )
8/12/2010
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Cherries are spiced with cinnamon, star anise, vanilla and cardamom - making this a great festive treat.
Ingredients
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| ⅓ cup | Plain flour |
| 1¼ cups | Ground hazelnuts |
| 1½ cups | Desiccated coconut |
| ¼ tsp | Salt |
| ⅔ cup | Condensed milk |
| 1 tsp | Vanilla extract |
| ½ cup | Caster sugar |
| ½ cup | Water |
| 1 | Vanilla bean |
| 1 | Cinnamon stick |
| 2 | Cardamom pods |
| 1 | Star anise |
| 3 | Juniper berries |
| 2 | Black peppercorns |
| 12 | Cherries |
| 1 cup | Cream |
| 1 to dust | Icing sugar |
Directions
- Preheat oven to 180 degC. Grease an oven tray.
- Mix the flour, hazelnuts, coconut and salt together in a bowl. Mix the condensed milk and vanilla extract together then add, stirring well.
- Form into desired shapes using wet hands then place on tray and bake for about 20 minutes or until golden.
- Put the sugar, water, half the vanilla bean split lengthwise, cinnamon, cardamom, star anise, juniper and peppercorns all together in a saucepan.
- Simmer for about 15 minutes or until syrupy. Turn off the heat and add the cherries. Let them sit in the syrup until ready to use.
- Scrape the seeds from the remaining piece of the vanilla bean into the cream then whip together.
- Top the cold macaroons with a little cream and then a cherry. Dust with icing sugar. The syrup can be poured into a jar and kept in the fridge for a future use.
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