French-Style Macarons

Don’t confuse macarons—a single o—with macaroons, which are coconut cookies. Macarons are made by folding almond flour—it is best to buy almond flour, rather than grinding almonds to make your own because the milled flour is finer—into meringue, shaping the meringue into cookies, and then sticking two cookies together with a little jam. The cookies should have a fragile crunch on the outside but a melting interior. To achieve this, leave the macarons at room temperature for about 20 minutes