macarons

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A different way of making macarons!

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Lavender macarons

by Simone (junglefrog) on December 9, 2009 · 38 comments

in Challenges, Desserts & other sweets, Food and Drink, Macattack, Recipes

Macarons

My last failed attempt at making macarons has been a while ago and was for the Daring Bakers in october. So when Jamie and Deeba started their MacAttack I could not stay behind! My goal, obviously, to finally produce a decent batch of macarons. One that I would be able to serve to other people [...]

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Daring Bakers; French macarons

by Simone (junglefrog) on October 27, 2009 · 50 comments

in Challenges, Daring Bakers, Food and Drink

Macarons

I want feet, I want feet, I want feet.. But…. as you can see…. no feet (again) When I saw that the Daring Bakers challenge for october was making french macarons I figured I had a potentially good chance of succeeding. It would of-course be my fourth attempt at making macarons and with two fails [...]

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Lemon-mascarpone macarons

by Simone (junglefrog) on September 24, 2009 · 28 comments

in Desserts & other sweets, Recipes

Lemon mascarpone macarons

It’s been a while since I made my first macarons and since this evening we are going to visit my parents in law I figured it would be a perfect day to make a new batch of these delicate cookies. I think officially I am not supposed to call them cookies, but for lack of [...]

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Macarons 2nd attempt!

by Simone (junglefrog) on July 12, 2009 · 29 comments

in Desserts & other sweets, Food and Drink, Recipes

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Whoohoo!! Ofcourse I could not resist making another batch of macarons yesterday as I really wanted it to work better then the first attempt. I had received full instructions from Helen via an article she had written previously for dessert magazine (look on page 38) and following those… I got the above results! The whole [...]

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Macarons first attempt!

by Simone (junglefrog) on July 8, 2009 · 18 comments

in Food and Drink

Failed attempt nr. 1

Ever since I tasted the very first macaron in my life at Laduree in Paris, I’m hooked… I love the texture of these phenomenal cookies and the taste is just well…. to die for! Last year I was in France with a friend and we found this little bakery in Dijon where they had macarons, [...]

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