Macaron Fetish

I fell in love for the macaron the first time I ate one.

Let get this right, Macaron is not Macaroon. Macaron is a Parisian Pastry made famouse by Pierre Hermé about 10 years back when he was a pastry chef of Ladurée. Today, the macarons from Ladurée in Paris cost about 2 Euros per piece.

The urge to make macarons crossed my mind many times. As I am not really a good baker, it took me months of courage to actually attempt to making them.

I must admit that I have then a love-hate relationship with macarons. There are days when I stuck my nose in front of oven to look for feet only to find no feet macarons in the oven.

So there I was, making the first attempt in Nov, 2009. Result - Flat, ugly, rough macaron. I didn't have any photos of them, but they were flat and look like cookies! I was devastated.

Second attempt, round, puffy no feet macaron :(

Second attempt

I remember researching online about different method and then I decided to go for the third attempts. I found a recipe for 1 egg, which sounds good to me because if it fail, I didnt have to waste whole lot of ingrediants.

I piped the Macaron and waited anxiously in front of the oven, after mins, there come the feet.... i was so excited and danced around the kitchen as if I've won lotto!



Strangely, after this suscess, I counldn't get anymore macarons with feet in the next few bakes. Determinated, I kept trying and failing...I really wanted to tame this little suckers!! Until I came across finally a video from a Chef who lives in Quebec. And it helped me a lot!! So I hope I could share a few tips with you guys out there

I'll post the basic macaron recipe soon, please have a look.

Have fun baking
Kim