Macaron Success!

Look I made macarons!

I'm still in shock. I actually had some success!

One of my friends recently confessed to me that she had made macarons (you know who you are Shaz!)

I was so impressed! She even had photographic evidence to prove it! Spurred on by her success, this weekend I was determined to have another go.

I have only made macarons once before, and they were a disaster.

I have to confess, I have severe RDD (Recipe Deficit Disorder)

Any recipes longer than a few lines, I tend to ignore and make up as I go along. That is what I did with my first attempt at macarons.

On my first attempt I certainly didn't bother to grind my icing sugar with the ground almonds before sieving....

...and I certainly didn't whip my egg whites until they were stiff peaks.

I realised after my first attempt that with these little suckers, you really do have to follow the recipe to the letter. So I did. I used the recipe from I love Macarons by Hisako Ogita.

I decided on pink vanilla and chocolate macarons, which I sandwiched together with a vanilla custard creme.

The mixture was a little runny with my pink vanilla macarons. I am not sure if I overmixed or didn't mix enough.

As you can see they were a little flat after cooking.

My chocolate ones were much better although some of them cracked. I think my "macaronnage" technique improved for these ones.

The vanilla custard creme was lovely.

If you squint, they don't actually look half bad.

But they tasted yummy!

Mr G and I ate the whole lot in about 24 hours!

I really want to have a go at making salted caramel macarons next time so watch this space.