orange macaroons

for me the recipe needed a few alterations (and was way too much), this is how I'll try next time.

almond paste:
200g ground/whole almonds
20g coconut sugar

put it into the blender (the chopper part, the smoothie maker will not work for this), make a paste.
add a few tablespoons water, if needed, to form a paste, but one tbsp at a time, it's easy to overdo.

1 large egg white
25g coconut sugar
1/4 tsp pure almond extract
freshly grated zest of one orange (about 2 flat tsp)
2 tbsp grand marnier
1/4 tsp fine grain sea salt (twist 10)

beat the egg white with a mixer. add almond paste, sugar, almond extract, mix.
add orange zest, grand marnier and salt, mix again.

transfer dough to a clean surface sprinkled with sugar.
using fine grain sugar as flour make 2cm wide logs.
cut cubes from the logs, coat in sugar, add to baking sheet. (won't rise, so can be packed close)

leave for 30 mins
heat oven to 160c fan
pinch macaroons in the diagonals to form pyramids

bake for 15 mins

recipe inspo from here:
http://www.101cookbooks.com/archives/limoncello-macaroons-recipe.html