Just Blogging today...Ok, so here is how I got started in macarons.
So one day in August i was looking at an Hedgehog Blog (rhyme!) and I saw a little ad that said something about the best deals in my city. Amazingly it showed these cute dainty little sandwich cookie. I thought they were Whoopie pies. So I left-hand clicked on it and it said the name: MACARONS. So automatically I did search query, and up came so many sites about them. i decided that first I should go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macaron. So began my journey. I learned as much as I could about them.
Once I finished learning I decided to find a recipe. A chocolate one. I did and I had to rush to the store with my shopping list:
Cocoa Powder, Piping Bag, Piping tip, Almond Powder (this stuff is pretty darn expensive), Parchment Paper and Dark Chocolate. I was so excited to go home and get baking. I didn't have my blog then, so I just got to baking. Now I had never worked with meringue before. Well, I had but not using the method my recipe called for... so I began to make the meringue and I have had no experiance with this type so this definetly messed it up... But, I did not know that. Then I sifted and shook and folded my ingredents in. Piped and let them set...
Once I put them in the oven and began to wait for the yummy deliciousness that was soon to come. Little did I know that would not happen. Once I took them out they looked nothing like what I had seen and learned about. The result: a flat sticky cakelike mess all over my pans. I decided since they were unuseable so I broke them into pices and ate them as cereal. They were pretty good. I just wished that they were PRETTY and GOOD. And that became my quest to make the perfect one.
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