Happy Monday! It’s raining here today in Atlanta which totally makes me think of comfort food. My all time favorite comfort food is a good old PB&J sandwich. So today’s recipe is a PB&J French Macaron recipe. {Ya like how I connected two totally random thoughts together?}
PB & J Filling
Ingredients
1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter, softened
2 cups of confectioners’ sugar
2 tablespoons of heavy cream (or half & half)
3/4 of a cup of smooth peanut butter
strawberry preserves
Directions
Beat the butter with an electric mixer on medium-high speed until creamy {around 2 minutes}. Reduce the speed to medium and add the confectioners’ sugar a 1/2 cup at a time. Add 2 tablespoons of heavy cream & beat until mixture is pale & fluffy {around 5 minutes}. Turn off mixer and split batch into 2 equal parts {one part makes the peanut butter filling and the second part will be the strawberry filling}. Place half the mixture into a mixing bowl and set aside.
For the peanut butter filling: Add the peanut butter to the mixture & beat until smooth. Place filling in a piping bag. For the Strawberry filling, take your bowl and add 1/2 a cup of strawberry preserves, mix with spatula. Place strawberry filling in a piping bag.
Notes:
– Create your french macaron without food coloring so that they will resemble the bread.
– Pipe the strawberry filling on one macaron shell and pipe the PB filling on the other shell. Then sandwich together to form your PB&J macaron.
– You can use any preserve flavor you want like grape or raspberry but I’m a fan of strawberry.
Happy Baking!
