Caramel Apple Cheesecake Macarons

I know that I've just posted Macarons, but because I nailed them - I have decided to experiment a little! So in this post I will be showing how I changed it up and made Caramel Apple Cheesecake Macarons!

I used the same recipe as last time:
4 egg whites
200g caster sugar
75ml water
200g icing sugar
200g almond meal
(This time I added green food colouring)

(Here is the macaron page from last time with all the instructions)

And I added:
250g cream cheese
1/2 cup icing sugar
1 large (or 2 small) green apples
1-2 tbs flour
1-2 tsp cinnamon
1/2 cup cream
100g butter
2/3 cup brown sugar
1/4 golden syrup

Once you have the macarons made and cooled etc, then you get onto the filling!!

Cut up the apple(s) into small pieces, and coat in the flour (just as much as you need to over them lightly) and add the cinnamon to taste (if you like more add more etc). I had about 1 tsp.

Then make the caramel, put the butter, cream, golden syrup and brown sugar in a sauce pan. Cook it on a medium temperature until the butter melts and the sugar is dissolved (to check if the sugar is dissolved, have a little taste and if it feels smooth and not grainy, it's dissolved). Once it has all dissolved, turn the heat up a little bit and let it start boiling for 3-4minutes - stirring occasionally.

Once it is finished cooking, take it off the heat and add the apples - this will allow them to cook just a little bit, but not too much to make them mushy. Allow this to cool to room temperature.

Make sure the cream cheese is soft, and then beat it with an electric mixer to make it nice and smooth. Slowly add the icing sugar to make it just a little bit sweeter - this is a personal taste thing - but remember you are adding the caramel to it so that will sweeten it as well!

Using a spatula, mix the cooled caramel / apple mix in with the cream cheese icing. Once it is pretty well incorporated, you can decide how much you mix it - if you want to leave little spots of caramel, or if you want to have it all mixed in together.

Match up all the macarons in pairs with similar sized macarons.

Then get your piping bag and then start piping and joining them together!

I got my lovely husband to help me, and we joined them all together with the cheesecake filling.

You can se in this one how the cheesecake filling isnt mixed in completely so there is bits of caramel, bits of cream cheese, and then some bits of it all mixed in...

I am seriously loving the macarons - so many ways to change them - colours, flavours - it's so exciting!

My sister in law is a huge Zumbo fan (like I am) and she has had his macarons, and so I took it as a compliment when she closed her eyes and smiled as she ate them! She had to stop herself from eating more... It's things like this that make want to make more and more food!!

Happy Baking!!

Rach