Hazelnut washed, dried at a low temperature in the oven or on a hot battery. Nuts should be completely dry both inside and outside. Manually, as far as possible, remove the nuts from the husk, dried in absolutely nuts, it goes pretty easy.

Grind the peeled hazelnuts in a coffee grinder. You can grind it separately and then mix with powdered sugar, I prefer to grind the hazelnuts immediately with powder to prevent oil separation and turning the nut flour into a paste. Smallive short taps, alternating with short breaks. Sift the chopped nuts until they turn to flour very finely. Dry it in the oven for 5 minutes at temp. 110 gr. Celsius, then sift again with cocoa powder when we make chocolate macaroons or without it, if we prepare normal.

Proteins separated from the yolks at least 2 days before cooking, i.e. aged, whisk first in the fluffy foam, then start the small portions add sugar. Whisk until the sugar is dissolved and until "stiff peaks". Leave the beaten egg whites for two minutes.

Combine the almond-sugar and protein mass lightly upward, rotating the bowl clockwise. At this stage, can add to the dough a little dye, if you want to paint the cookies in any color. Right peremeshennoi the batter should flow off the spatula wide ribbon. Do not overdo it, the dough should keep the volume! The finished dough we shift into a pastry bag with a round nozzle with a large diameter or in a plastic bag, then cut off the package area. If the form is not important, you can isolate cookies using a teaspoon.

In order for all of the cookies turned out the same size on the baking paper draw circles by passing on the wrong side of a glass pencil, if you use a silicone Mat, dip the glass in powdered sugar and put on the right place for us. The usual diameter of the cookie cutter 3-4 cm This operation is best done in advance, to cooking biscuits.

Otkryvaem cookies inside the selected path, holding a bag of pastries vertically, once lightly hit the tray on the table to remove the "tails". Can decorate the cookies according to your taste chips and chopped hazelnuts. Leave the cookies to dry for about an hour. During this time a crust forms on top, if you lightly touch the cookie with your finger, your finger will remain dry. If so, the biscuits are ready for baking. Bake cookies in preheated oven 10 minutes at a temperature of 160 gr. Celsius. Ovens may vary, I present the optimal time and temperature for its. In electric I do not bake, but for gas it is necessary to set a tray of cookies on the top level and under it more lower to put another empty baking sheet. Then the probability is high that everything will work out. After baking give the cookies cool for several minutes and remove it from the Mat. So I got 78 of the halves of the cookie, i.e., 39 pairs of stacked macaroons.

Whisk cream cheese with crushed into powder brown sugar.

Melt on low heat in a saucepan Tolstoganova or in a water bath a bar of chocolate and add it to the cheese mass, then whisk. If you are afraid that the chocolate might curdle before melting add a couple of tablespoons of cream cheese.

Turn half the cookies upside down, apply the cream using a pastry bag or a teaspoon, cover the bottom and down the other half and lightly press. Cookies stored in a closed clean, dry container in the fridge. It is recommended that before you start to taste the pasta, hold it in the fridge for 2 days, so its taste is most revealed.

As you probably already understood, I did not stop at this stage and decided a little "torment" cookies, then decorated it in a herringbone pattern, so I want to share this decoration ideas. Take a large sheet of thick paper or drawing paper, turn it into a wide cone and fasten it in such condition by means of staples or adhesive tape. Trim with scissors the edge of the cone, making it sustainable. The optimal length of the cone 39 to the cooked macaroons - 22 cm Wrap the cone of baking paper or foil paper fastened with duct tape.

Pierce the cone with a thick needle, awl or pin in the right place, widehem in the hole a toothpick, the other end of which is stuck into the middle of the cookie. This should be done carefully, Wieniawski movements to the cookies are cracked.