Matcha green tea macarons with chestnut puree ganache


Right, second go at making these green tea macarons. There are a few things that I have done differently this time: 1) I have now grasped the amount of time needed for the egg whites to become foamy, and need to start whipping it very soon after I start the sugar syrup. I need to…

Matcha Green Tea Macarons


I could hardly wait for the weekend to arrive so that I could make another batch of macarons. This time using my newly acquired bag of green tea powder. Hmmm the fresh grass smell that whiffs out when I open the foil bag…refreshing! To make these I simply weighed out the ingredients for my macaron…

Mango Madness Macarons


A word of warning – this is an incredibly sweet macaron. Perhaps due to the fact that I have not acquired the taste of white chocolate; rather, I have loved the bitterness of dark chocolate from as far back as I can remember. The sweetness of the white chocolate came as a shock to me….

Violet macarons with chocolate Frangelico ganache


Right I’m in a roll here – making dainty little macarons that is. What favour should I try out now? Salted caramel? Coffee chocolate? Green tea and red bean? Hm green tea sounds good! I ask Jacqueline, my 3.5 year old daughter, ‘what colour macarons should we make ?’ Knowing her favourite colour is green,…