Chocolate macarons with salted caramel


Chocolate and salted caramel seems to be doing it’s rounds around the www lately. Muffins, cookies, donuts, cakes, ice cream, chocolates and of course, macarons. I wasn’t quite sure what the hype was all about, not until I finally made a batch of salted caramel following a Pierre Herme recipe. It was intended to be…

Oreos macarons


What else can I turn into a macaron? I wondered out loud one day at the supermarket. It’s been eight months, and I am still making macarons. I can’t see this quest finishing any time soon and I don’t think this is a phase either. Having read and watched Adriano Zumbo make his macarons, I…

Popcorn macarons with salted caramel and popcorn ‘snow’


I’ve been slowly working through my macaron flavour list and finally arrived at popcorn! My memories of popcorn brings me back to my high school days. It would be the last day of school before the summer holiday, and we would typically change from our school uniforms to causal wear and head out for an…

Black sesame macaron with black sesame chocolate ganache


I decided to make a black sesame ganache to fill my black sesame macarons to see how intense will the overall black sesame flavour be. Follow my black sesame macaron recipe and replace the mascarpone and red bean filling with the following ganache. Black Sesame Ganache 100ml heavy cream 100g semisweet chocolate, roughly chopped 40g…