We’ve been to the Auckland Observatory recently and inspired by the show about our solar system – “The little star that could” – I went on to create a kaleidoscopic array of macarons, to reflect the colours of our stars and planets. These sat on a 3-tier glass cake plate, alongside the star cake for…
Tag: dark chocolate
Orange and dark chocolate ganache macarons
I love orange-flavoured dark chocolate, to me that’s a match made in heaven and whenever I’m given the option of a variety of chocolate truffles, I would go for this over any other. I’ve used Valrhona orange dark chocolate to make my ganache – I’ve been saving them for just this special occasion. They are…
Cola macarons
I was debating what coloured shells should I use for cola-flavoured macarons: If I went for red, I would have completed my rainbow macaron challenge (i.e. having made macarons of each colour of the rainbow). However S reminded me that cola is brownish black, not red. Arr I was thinking about the can not the…
Watermelon, Raspberry and Mint chocolate chip macarons
I was being rather greedy one night – instead of just making a single flavour of macarons, I decided I should go all out and see how many I can churn out with only one or two coloured shells. Deciding that I should go with what I have in the fridge, I checked and found…
Toblerone macarons
I think I struck gold when I heard S say “oh how I miss black Toblerone…”. We were talking about how the Toblerone fairy had been visiting work and I was also wondering what macaron flavour I should try next (I haven’t repeated once since I started making them at the start of 2012. There’s…
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