French Macaroons

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These are very cute cookies. At first, I was hesitant to make them because the picture shows them as not-so-cute, but with a bit of dye and a steady hand, they'll be adorable.
Someone else said that pouring water under the wax paper isn't necessary, but I disagree. I made my first pan with pouring the water under the wax, and I didn't want to splash the cookies with water again (Derp on my part. so I made the second pan without using the water. I let them lay in the pan for a couple of minutes, and when I tried to take them off, they were hard as little hockey pucks. I peeled them off the wax paper. Some split in half, and others took some wax with them. So, please, use the water unless you can demise another way to get these to come off. I used water on my third and fourth pans, and they turned out fine.

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Fine recipe, no problems.
REVISED, I hadn't made these for a while & forgot the important seps. If you have real questions, David Liebowitz has a million sites to view about these cookies.
The important part is, don't over beat them. Double a baking sheet on top of another heavy baking sheet, then put the paper on. Then, after ou pipe them on the paper, let them sit at room temp for AT LEAST 20 minutes. Next thing you have to do is to, start them at a high temp, 400 degrees for 5 minutes. Then take a wooden spoon proper the door open a little, reset the temp to 265 and bake another 15-17 minutes.
Letting them sit for a while allows them to get 'feet'. The outside is suppose to be crunchy & the inside soft like a regular meringue. The ingresdients are fine, but lots of sites for French Macarons, not 2 o's just one.

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I found this way too sweet and I think it needs to cook at a higher temperature.

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There is no need to steam the parchment paper off!
Otherwise this recipe is perfect. I made two sheets of these cookies. It seemed like larger kisses of dough hold up better, so you might want to make them bigger than a quarter. Honestly, these won't last long even if they aren't pretty!!

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The recipe was easy and it brought back the wonderful memeories of our anniversary in Paris. This was exactly like the macaroons sold all over the city. My husband was thrilled to be able to enjoy these at home!!!