The articles are all up on Serious Eats website. After reading all these blogs, and since it's Halloween, I figure I need to get started on making these cookies. I have most of the equipment after 10 years.
The cookies begin like this;
a basic stiff whip of egg whites and sugar. Add to this a whole mess of finely ground almond meal, powdered/icing sugar and cocoa powder;
I took the photo before the sifting of the cocoa powder so bear with me. After carefully folding in the dry mix, I dropped it all in a ziplock bag. I don't have any pastry bags. Must remedy that. I squeezed them into 2 inch blobs. They are supposed to be 1 inch rounds, but again bear with me.
I did the double sheet pans, but not the cracked open oven. The cookies didn't burn and I got feet! 
I was so happy! My first experience baking these rather temperamental cookies! I did let them sit for about 30 min. Supposedly you let them sit for an hour to two hours to get a skin. Well I got impatient. I didn't have too much trouble peeling them off the parchment paper. 
I took out the vanilla buttercream I made yesterday and whipped it up again. I spread 1/5 teaspoons on a cookie and topped it off with a cookie of similar size. Not bad for my first attempt. How did they taste? Pretty darn good! I put most of them in a container to let mature overnight. We each had a macaron. It required a glass of milk, pure sweetness. Goof can't say anything needed to change. I think my buttercream could have been smoother, but otherwise, very good. I'm not sure if the cookies were right as they didn't seem to have the height that most professional bakers got. I'm just happy I got feet. Tomorrow the rest of my baking venture of the week.
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