Salted Caramel Macarons


It happened to be my work’s third birthday a few weeks ago and in celebration I made these aqua blue macarons and paired them with my all time favourite – salted caramel filling. I might have to make a salted caramel cake next, such is my addition to the salty sweet caramelly  flavours. Watch this…

Black Forrest Macarons with freeze-dried plum powder


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…

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…

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…