Macaron!

Continuing from my Macaron saga – I had great fun matching up the pairs the next morning. Thanks to my unique piping skills, no two macarons were the same shape or size!

For the filling – well…so delighted was I by my lack of total failure the night before; my inflated over ambition again raised its head. No plain buttercream for me! Non non! It must be “Mango and Vanilla Mousseline” buttercream frosting, mais oui!

Yes, well… you can imagine how that went. I don’t even want to post the recipe in case I tarnish the writer with my failure. On the plus side, I ended up with a giant bowl of very delicious tasting mango-flavoured gloop. So to salvage it, I mixed everything with a block of philadelphia cream cheese and pretended that was the original plan.

LO AND BEHOLD – I PRESENT TO YOU:

MACARONS WITH MANGO CREAM CHEESE FILLING

I think I find photographing them as much fun as eating them! They’re just so delicate and pretty. And you can make them in all sorts of colours.

And it’s good, because this way I can be cheeky and only show the nice ones (and turn them around so the cracks wont show!)

I think you can tell I’m more of a photo-nerd than I am a baker-nerd… because after I took these I ran straight up to my computer so I could coo at the raw files, macarons left forgotten in a teacup on the kitchen table (don’t worry… my brother and my boyfriend very swiftly saved them from their neglected fate)