Mar 2, 2011

First batches of macarons

I've never understood why macarons are so trendy these days. Don't get me wrong, I do like them (Hévin's are my favorites) but I've never been inspired to try to make them until I found  this "carrot cake macaron" recipe from Tartelette. When I was reading her post, I was already imagining the carrot cake baking smell and the taste all wrapped up in a tiny bite size macaron. So I got all excited and went shopping for ingredients to bake my first macarons. The truth is I'm not a genius so the first ones came out looking more like whoopie pies than macarons. I guess I should have started with a basic recipe... But the taste of carrot cake was definitely in there!

They were quite photogenic too AND gluten free!

I was surprised how little time it takes for the preparation. So, as I'm kind of lazy, this encourages me to make other trials. I've gone back to a more basic recipe in order to understand the meringue correctly first, yet I couldn't help adding some raspberry in the ganache. I'm happy because these second ones are looking more like macarons. There's still a lot to experiment...

Second batch, almost there...


4 comments:

MerveillesbyEstelle said...

Bravo pour les photos! Je suis avec toi, les preparations sont simple. Je vais essayer de mon cote aussi. Ah Tartelette, all your fault I'm drooling over there now. T'as vus les autres macarons? celui avec la glace? Not sure why macarons have become popular ;)

Danidan said...

Bravo!
Très appétissants tes macarons.

David Tredler said...

Hmmmmmmmmmmm... macarons ^_^

Sarah said...

Ma pote ici, en grande fan de Paris et de ses clichés, a un foulard Ladurée
Et elle est ultra fan des Carrot Cakes..
Je lui montre ça, maintenant !

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