I wanted to introduce a secondary crunchy element to my macarons and was toying with the idea when I came across some Cadbury Berry Forrest chocolate. It had jelly and biscuit pieces in the block – perfect! As mentioned in an earlier post I love adding freeze dried powders to macarons. I added plum powder…
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Milo Macarons
This one is for the kids. Remember the controlled drink dispensers in the home room at school? I used to put like 6 clicks of milo into the foam cup with a tiny splash of hot water, just enough to form a thick paste. I would have this as an afternoon “pick me up” during…
Rainbow Macarons for J’s 5th birthday party
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…
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…
Blueberry, cotton candy and mango macarons
Macarons – Teal, Purple, Yellow, a set on Flickr. What would you do if you had green and pink coloured macarons in the freezer? What kind of photo would you want to build next? Well naturally I wanted to do a ‘rainbow macarons’ photo. So I need to start hogging the best shaped macarons for…
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