The Art of Making Macarons

Recently, I've taken up baking again, just for fun. I used to do this more last year, and bring goodies to work since Liz and I can't eat them all:) It's fun to just mess about in the kitchen, sometimes changing up the recipes.


While I was in Zurich (for a day only!) on my trip, my friends and I found a chocolate shop (which you may remember from a previous entry) called Sprüngli, where they make small macarons called Luxemburgherli. They're meringue cookies made with ground almonds, with a filling between two halves.


I was craving these one day and tried to see if they have them in London, but the closest place is Toronto. On a whim, I also checked out the Sprüngli website to see if they deliver (yeah right!) but they only do in Switzerland, haha.


This all prompted me to attempt to make these myself. I knew I had seen some recipes for macarons (not macaroons, mind you!) on a favourite dessert recipe blog of mine, http://www.tartelette.blogspot.com/. So I checked it out, and the first batch failed miserably due to the fact that I had some measurement issues. This one, with the right proportions, turned out the best so far, even better than ones I've made since.


I give you macarons with a bittersweet chocolate ganache:









The pictures are a little larger than necessary, I know, but I forgot to shrink them. Anyways, these are so fun to make that I decided to expand my repertoire, and also made orange-flavoured macarons with a chocolate ganache, and pink macarons with a white chocolate ganache. Unfortunately, I have no photos of these as they got eaten by my book club, my bible study, and my friends from work. Okay, fine, I had some too:)


That's what I've been up to. I'll post again soon about my road trip to St. Catharines. Now that I finally have some photos, I'm back on the blogging bandwagon.


Have a great day, my friends!