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…
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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…
100s and 1000s macaron with salted caramel filling
I’ve been working on a new macaron flavour and I think I have invented one – well at least in the cyber world of Google. The inspirations came from my daughter J, who loves the sprinkles on cupcakes. She asked if she could sprinkle the 100s and 1000s onto my last batch of macarons, and…
Matcha green tea macaron with mascarpone and red bean filling – Mactweets Mac Attack #30 Vacation Getaway Macarons
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…
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…
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