macarons

These look good and easy, she laughs behind her hand.  Well, I have never made macarons so we will see.  I had 4 egg whites left over from my last bake so I needed a recipe to use them up.  It was going to be Mary’s Neopolitan Baked Alaska which looked scary and daunting so luckily I found these instead.  They are made with ground pecans giving them a “wonderful flavour that becomes more intense as the macarons age”  Well we may never find that one out the rate my daughter is eating them!  I went to the opening of a Kombucha bar on Saturday.  “NewLeaf” very chic, selling only kombucha, very original.  And it’s so good for you.  Very interesting tea flavours of macha, gunpowder green tea and Sri Lankan Black tea to name a few, all on tap. Go try it at their taproom http://www.newleafkombucha.nz   That was new and interesting, as was this bake.  I didn’t know how to make macarons, but I had the impression that they are hard to get right.  My daughter made them once or twice, (should I say attempted to make them) and they resulted in hard things stuck to paper. 🙁  I was shocked that macarons are just meringue with added ground nuts, who knew!!!  They were simple and pleasant to whip up.  The most time consuming bit was probably drawing the circles on the baking paper, Haha.  I would recommend to anyone to give it a go.  So I put the pecans and icing sugar in the food processor and ground to a fine sandy powder.  I whipped the egg whites and salt until (more…)