Monday, February 14, 2011

Valentine's Macarons


Happy Valentine's Day! This year I decided to tackle a project I've been talking about for over a year, possibly two. Macarons are sweet, almond and meringuey cookies that are filled with any number of good things. I made two kinds: one pale pink filled with raspberry preserves and one creamy white filled with dark chocolate ganache. The thing about macarons is that they are a process to make and, with the almond flour, not cheap either. I knew this going in--and they lived up to that. I think I used every mixing bowl around as well as every surface. Also, the cookies are delicate, and breakage will occur. While I don't plan to make these again immediately, I still came away with plenty of cookies and even just the unfilled broken shells are good to munch on.

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3 comments:

Anonymous said...

This: http://www.macarondaynyc.com/ made me think of you!

Peace!

Monica

Kt said...

Very cool -- thanks Monica!

Anonymous said...

you are welcome!

The word macaron makes me think immediately of macaroni, and I find it so amusing they are such different things!

Monica