Just spotted

Macaron wine


I was shopping at Ralphs and saw both macarons and macaron wine. I might have purchased some macarons but they had no price. I also wanted the wine for after the baby comes but it is a much better deal if you buy 6 bottles and I just had this vision of everyone thinking I was a pregnant wino. I guess I'll have to go back with the captain to buy this later, but I'm thinking of a wine and macaron party after the baby comes and we've had a chance to recover from being zombies.

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Macaron Croquembouche

Macaron Croquembouche


For the PJ crop that I attended on Saturday I made a macaron croquembouche which was filled with a vahlrona chocolate ganache and raspberry preserves.

I have to say these were the best I've ever made, and they were very similar to those I enjoyed in Paris at Pierre Herme...I'm really cracking the code on getting the texture just right.

In the light of day


It's so hard to capture color so I took a photo in the morning before the crop.

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Happy St Paddy's Day

Cherry Almond Scones


It's a day late but I made some scones and couldn't find my round cutter so I used my shamrock cookie cutter. I added some leftover ground almonds from my macaron making and dried bing cherries. Yum!
Happy belated St Patrick's Day!

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Happy Pi Day!

Raspberry Pi Pie Croquembouche


Happy Pi Day! In honor of Pi day (3/14) and for a contest on instructables, I have made a raspberry pi pie croquembouche. I hope everyone enjoys it at the party I'm going to.

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Baby Shower Macs - Macaron Day Challenge

Baby Shower Macs


For the latest mactweets mac challenge I wanted to make a macaron croquembouche, however I struggled with these macs, since it had been so long since I had made any, half of them bled together (piped too much batter) and by the time i got it together some of them started to wrinkle...they were also not the color I'd hoped so I ended up putting them on a pretty cake plate.

ready for my close up


I also had trouble with my ganache, I tried using valrohna chocolate for the first time and it did some weird thing where all the oil separated out from the chocolate, so this is just regular semi sweet chocolate chips...but they tasted just like they should, so perhaps I'll save the croquembouche for another day. Actually I ended up making one out of mini pies for a different celebration instead.

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