Peanut Butter Macarons
These Peanut Butter Macarons have a peanut butter shell made with powdered peanut butter and a chocolate peanut butter ganache filling. They're so delicious and will wow any crowd!
I love macarons and I wanted to get fancy for our first peanut butter bash party. The macaron shell is packed full of peanut butter flavor from PB2. The ganache is a combination of milk chocolate chips and Reese's peanut butter chips. I didn't want the peanut butter to get overpowered by the milk chocolate ganache, so it was only necessary to add more peanut butter!
I love using ganache after it has chilled in the fridge for a couple of hours. It's so thick and pretty much the best thing ever. You know what has made it even better? PEANUT BUTTER. Holy moly. I can't stay out of it. I've been dropping weight for a wedding I was in this last weekend, but now I guess it's a free for all. I keep telling myself, be good. ..It's not working. 🙁 Luckily, when I went to pick up the hubs from work yesterday, I dropped a few of these delicious peanut butter macarons off to some of the co-workers.
Peanut Butter Macarons
Ingredients
Macaron Shell
- 1 cup almond flour
- 1 ½ cups powdered sugar
- 3 large egg whites room temperature
- ¼ cup granulated sugar
- pinch of salt
- ¼ teaspoon cream of tartar
- 4 tablespoons powdered peanut butter
Ganache Filling
- 1 cup milk chocolate chips
- ½ cup Reese's Peanut Butter Chips
- ½ cup heavy whipping cream
Instructions
Macaron Shell
- Prepare a baking sheet by lining it with parchment paper. If you choose to make a template to follow, make for rows of four circles with a pencil. Flip the parchment paper over so the pencil doesn't get into the food.
- Sift together the almond flour, PB2, and powdered sugar. If you can't find almond flour you can always make it with almonds and a food processor. Finely grind the almonds and sift through a fine mesh sifter. Discard or snack on any large pieces.
- In a large mixing bowl, add in egg whites. Turn on high and beat until the egg whites form a soft peak meringue.
- Add in the granulated sugar, salt, and cream of tartar. Mix on high until a stiff peak meringue forms.
- Very lightly and carefully fold in a third of the almond flour mixture into the meringue with a spatula. All together you'll want to have about 45 turns. If you don't mix enough the macaron shell will be extremely fluffy and cracked. If you over mix, the macaron shell will be extremely flat and might not form a foot.
- Repeat with the rest of the almond flour mixture.
- Preheat oven to 300 degrees F.
- Fill a piping bag with the macaron shell filling. I just used a coupler on the end of my piping bag. Pipe macaron shells on the baking sheet.
- Let the macarons dry until they are no longer tacky to the touch. It will take 20 minutes to 1 hour. If you don't let them completely dry, they can also crack.
- Place in the oven for about 18 minutes until they no longer stick to the parchment paper.
- Let the macaron shells cool.
Ganache Filling
- In a microwave bowl, add the heavy cream. Microwave for 1 minute and 45 seconds. Make sure you use a bowl that will provide plenty of room for the cream to rise as it gets hot. I used a 2 cup measuring cup to heat my cream in.
- In a separate bowl, add the milk chocolate and peanut butter chips.
- Pour the hot heavy cream into the bowl with the chocolate and peanut butter chips. Let it sit for about 1 minute. Whisk the cream and chips together. If there is still cream on the surface, keep whisking. It just needs to be mixed more. When it is completely incorporated, it will be thick and look like melted chocolate.
- Cover the bowl with plastic wrap and place in the fridge for a 2-3 hours until it sets up. We want it at a consistency that can be piped.
Assemble
- Place the ganache filling in a piping back. It's going to be really thick, so I wouldn't bother with a fancy tip, just a coupler. Pipe a circle in the middle of the bottom macaron, and place the top shell on. Rock it back and forth, carefully not to crack the shell, to spread the filling to the outer edges.
Nutrition
(Nutrition facts are an estimate and not guaranteed to be accurate. Please see a registered dietitian for special diet advice.)
Peanut Butter Bash sounds heavenly! I am, duly, impressed that you had the discipline to share any of these gorgeous macarons!!
Thank you! I have to share. If I didn't, I would probably be a diabetic. lol
They sound delicious
Thank you!
These look fabulous! Love peanut butter, love macarons.....great combo!
Thank you! Peanut Butter can make anything amazing!
These are beautiful! What a great idea to melt whole Reese's cups to make the filling! Peanut butter + chocolate are meant to be together 🙂
Thank you! Chocolate and Peanut Butter are soul mates! 😀
Could I use peanut butter instead of the chips?
I'm sure you can! I haven't tried it to know if you measurements need to be tweaked at all though. If you give it a try, let me know if it turned out perfectly!
As a serious peanut butter lover.. this recipe is perfect for me! Definitely wish I could devour some of these macarons right now. Pinned!
Thank you! I have a group for some serious peanut butter lovers that you can join! 😀 I had to run over and check out your cookies and cream macarons. Holy cow. In love!
These look sooo good!!!
Thank you! 😀
Thanks for the macaron recipe. My granddaughter loves macarons. Best wishes, Linda Crafts a la Mode
You're welcome, Linda! I hope she enjoys this one!
Wow, these are pastry masterpieces. And they have two of my favorite ingredients too - peanut butter and chocolate! I have yet to master macarons at this level, although I suspect my tricky gas oven is the culprit for my macarons failures so far.
Thank you Oana! I also can't give enough of peanut butter and chocolate. I've had many fails with macarons. They are so tricky!
Ok, this has to happen. Like soon.
This is how it has gone down..... My daughter's upstairs neighbor / friend has successfully learned how to make macarons. I copied the link to your post. I emailed it to myself so that I can pick that email up on my iPhone....so that I can copy the link and text it to her. So that she can open it up immediately at work and come to this post and see this deliciousness. So that she can text the link to her friend... and hint around (strongly) that maybe he needs to make them this weekend. So that he will make them this weekend.... and send me some on a pretty plate. <3
Maybe there was an easier way... but I'll do anything at this point to try these macarons. Like climb mountains...
Beautiful post. Awesome recipe. <3
hahaha! That's awesome. Macarons are some tricky business. You have a pretty brilliant idea there! Thank you for such a great comment! <3