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Black Tea Macaron-ish-s “sans pied”: Macaron Trial #3

This time, I was sure to succeed. I bought Ogita’s book “I Love Macarons”, which is said to be the one of the best guides to make macarons and I really loved it, because it gives you a lot of different macaron options based on a “basic” recipe. It also has some very detailed instructions [...]
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Pomegranate Lavender Macarons: with and without KitchenAid

Throughout my 3 years of cooking experience, I didn’t need to use any electrical equipment for mixing, whisking, beating, blending or kneading. Instead, I used my hands and my beater. Actually, if you’re making cakes, muffins or cookies, you don’t really need an electrical mixer. But when it comes to beating egg whites, it is [...]
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Raspberry Heart Cakes & White Ganache Trials

I spent my whole Friday trying to make some flavored white-chocolate ganache. I made chocolate macarons using the David Lebovitz’s recipe, and used fig-flavored and orange-flavored white ganache to assemble the macarons (I simply added 1 orange’s zest to the white ganache for the orange-flavored ganache, and 2 mashed fresh figs for the fig-flavored ganache). [...]
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