Dolma
I'm not sure where I'm getting these bursts of energy, but when I saw the grapevine had new leaves I decided to make dolma, here it is ready to bake.
Almost done
At this point I thought it was done but I really needed more time, the recipe I used didn't specify a temp so I went with 350 & i should have gone with 450
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Raspberry Lime Rickey Macarons
For this month's mac tweets, color my world challenge I made pink and green macs. Usually I don't color my macs so brightly so this was something new to me. I also made the mistake of making two batches (I should have just done one cut in two) so it was a long afternoon/evening of baking! However I'm really pleased with the colorful results!
I sandwiched a chocolate ganache with a tiny bit of raspberry jam which I mixed with lime juice and sugar and powdered sugar. I dubbed these raspberry lime rickey macarons as when I was a small child there was an ice cream shop in my home town (still is) and people would order this raspberry lime soda all the time. I had a blast making these for the Color my world challenge!
Raspberry Lime Rickey Macarons
Side view
Raspberry Lime Rickey Macarons
These were acting like dominos when I set up the photo shoot so i also did one of them fallen down (and added some more to show off the color).
Cornice and mini macs
I couldn't resist making some tiny macs for Cornice and mini Cornice, my pullip and mini pullip dolls.
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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
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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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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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
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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