Ingredients
- 54 mins
 - 3 cookie sheets w
 - 2 egg whites
 - 1 tube
 - 3/4 rounds on prepared cookie shee bake
 - 3/4 tip (plain)
 - 1/8 macaroons preheat oven
 - 230 gr semisweet chocolate squares
 - 230 gr semisweet chocolate
 - 220 gr almond paste
 - 180 ml cream (heavy)
 - 100 gr sugar
 - 18 gr butter (unsalted)
 - 12 gr vegetable shortening
 - 5 gr dark rum
 - 1 gr almond extract
 - 1 gr salt
 
small mound on flat side of each macaroon. Place on cookie sheets and refrigerate until firm, about 1 hr. Chocolate glaze: Melt chocolate and shortening in double boiler over hot, not boiling water, stirring until smooth; keep warm. Dip 1 cookie, filling side down, in chocolate to coat, then place chocolate side up on jellyroll pan. Repeat with remaining cookies. Refrigerate until firm. Makes 8 doz. Per cookie: ----