Now what should I do with the left over red bean paste from my earlier black sesame macarons? Surely it will work with another Macaron flavour – Matcha green tea! I know I know I’ve done green tea many times already, but truth be told, I can never get enough of green tea. The earthiness…
Category: Recipes – Sweet Treats
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…
Citrus Shortbread biscuits
This week at Sunday School, the kids made little cut outs from carrot slices, using little cookie cutters. It immediately brought me back to my childhood years, where these are almost always found in chinese stir fry dishes in restaurants in Hong Kong. Next moment I get a flash back of these wonderful citrusy shortbread…
Spiced cookies
In my quest to put together a series of basic recipes, I came upon this cookie recipe from my formative years. It looked simple enough, here I made only one change – using Valrhona cocoa powder instead of ordinary ones. V cocoa is totally irresistible and gives an addictive cocoa aroma not found in others….
Black sesame macaron with mascarpone and red bean filling
Time to try a new macaron flavour. There’s one that has been lingering at the back of my mind, and I’ve not had the opportunity to make it. With Mother’s day coming around this Sunday, I think it is perfectly timed for me to make a black sesame macaron paired with a mascarpone and red…
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